Yoel Gamzou takes over: A new General Music Director for Warsaw

Elza van den Heever Jennifer Holloway Alexander Soddy Simone Young Wolfgang Koch Anja Kampe Jaap van Zweden Magnus Dietrich Paul Pigster Tara Erraught Annette Dasch Thomas Guggeis Joana Mallwitz Kwangchul Youn Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Maria Bengtsson Bertrand De Billy Eve-Maud Hubeaux Kirill Serebrennikov Kirill Petrenko
Written by Gabriele Fauchet

YOEL GAMZOU
TEATR WIELKI – OPERA NARODOWA

Yoel Gamzou will assume the position of Music Director at the Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa at the start of the 2026/27 season, bringing with him a diverse artistic profile encompassing symphonic, operatic, and contemporary repertoire. In his first season in Warsaw, he will be performing both in the orchestra pit and on the concert stage.

Ballet Galas , September 12 & 13, 2026

Mahler's Symphony No. 2 , September 26, 2026

Strauss' Salome , directed by Claus Guth, November 22 – December 13, 2026

Puccini's Tosca , directed by Barbara Wysocka, January 2nd - 16th, 2027

New Year´s concerts , December 31, 2026 & January 3, 2027

Janáček's Káťa Kabanová , directed by Kornél Mundruczó, January 17th - 30th, 2027

Don Quixote , the classic ballet evening after Petipa/Gorsky, directed by Alexei Fadeyechev, February 4–20, 2027

Verdi's Requiem , March 26, 2027

Prometheus , Krzysztof Pastor's ballet to music by Philip Glass and Mozart's Requiem in D minor, April 8–27, 2027

Szymanowski, Golijov & Tchaikovsky , May 8, 2027

Elgar, Walton & Waley-Cohen , June 11, 2027

Gabriele Fauchet
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