JUTROPERA (TOMORROWPERA) has been established to undertake a social and cultural mission.
The foundation pursues educational projects and prepares performances for children. It also organises training courses for teachers as well as a host of cultural and educational events. The foundation's primary focus is on promoting culture in the Wielkopolska Region. To that end, it has organised numerous educational and opera projects, such as: Jutropera Studio, Jutropera, Pocket Opera, Performances for the Wielkopolska Region, Let’s make an opera – performances with children as the audience and cast, Open Days, Verdi Days for the Little Ones, Theatre Travel, and other projects, introducing the wide audience into the world of opera.
The purpose of the foundation is to run the Jutropera Studio and support the development of young as well as up-and-coming opera soloists of Polish and foreign descent, notably from Eastern Europe, by affording them an opportunity to perform for professional opera scenes and feature in performances directed by household names from the opera world, and offering a comprehensive singing and stage movement course, referred to as MASTER CLASS. A one-year master class course ends with the staging of a new performance at Poznan's Teatr Wielki (Grand Opera House of Poznań). The Jutropera Studio project covers the production of such masterpieces as Candide by Leonard Bernstein (2010), Viva la Mamma – le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali by Gaetano Donizetti (2011), or King Lear by Giuseppe Verdi (2012).
One of Bernstein’s most captivating pieces at the meeting point of science and arts, combines opera with musical theatre, philosophy and literature. The performance was prepared as part of the Jutropera Studio project. Following auditions held in September 2009, 12 soloists from Poland (6 from Poznan) and 12 from Italy joined the cast. They worked with top-level experts on their voice, stage movement and interpretation for 4 months. February 2010 saw the premiere at Lucca, and the performance was subsequently staged also in Livorno, Ravenna and Pisa, Italy.
