premiere 9 July 2000
music director Aleksander Gref
staging and directing Marek Weiss-Grzesiński
decorations Boris F. Kudlička
costumes Maria Balcerek
choreography Izadora Weiss

duration: 2 h 50 min., 1 intermission

The opera intertwines suspense, drama and passion. The music is imbued with such intense colour and stage vigour, and it features such outstanding genre scenes, marvellous conciseness and dramatic power in the finals, that it is no surprise that the work is so greatly admired.