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Halka
Sign in to saveHalka is an opera by Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko to a libretto written by Włodzimierz Wolski, a young Warsaw poet with radical social views. It is part of the canon of Polish national operas.
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- Opera.name
- Halka
- Opera.composer
- Stanisław Moniuszko
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- The composer
- Opera.librettist
- Włodzimierz Wolski
- Opera.language
- Polish
- Opera.premiere_location
- Vilnius
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13 sectionsContents
- Performance history
- Composition
- Roles
- Synopsis
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Recordings
- Editions
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
Halka is an opera by Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko to a libretto written by Włodzimierz Wolski, a young Warsaw poet with radical social views. It is part of the canon of Polish national operas.
==Performance history== The first performance of the two-act version was in a concert performance in Vilnius on 1 January 1848. The staged premiere took place in the same city on 28 February 1854. A four-act version was performed in Warsaw on 1 January 1858. The opera was subsequently produced in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Turkey, Russia and Cuba.