NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with rising opera star and break dancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski, whose new album "Farewells" is a collection of Polish opera classics, little known to the rest of the world.

Polish singers have powered their way onto the world's greatest opera stages: the Met in New York, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Opéra Bastille in Paris and ...

A host of Polish opera singers are scheduled to perform at some of Europe’s most prestigious music festivals this summer. Tenor Piotr Beczała is cast as Radames in Verdi’s Aida at the Salzburg ...

World-renowned opera singer Piotr Beczała has received an honorary doctorate from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, his alma mater in the southern Polish city of Katowice. Beczała, a leading ...

Every Pole knows Moniuszko composed ‘Halka’ and ‘The Haunted Manor’, that he was the father of Polish opera, and that his face decorated the 100,000 PLN banknotes for a while. But there are so many ...

The orchestra will gather in Warsaw on July 18 for rehearsals and include musicians from Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv and Odesa, plus Ukrainian members of European orchestras. By Associated Press The ...

Dec 5 (Reuters) - Polish opera star Jakub Jozef Orlinski's debut performance at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in "Eurydice" in November was broadcast live in movie theaters across the globe on ...

Music has a language of its own. With close to 60,000 Instagram followers, Polish opera singer and breakdancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski says he is trying to use social media to break down cultural ...

To be an opera star, it helps to be a natural linguist as well as an exceptional singer. In any one season, you may be required to sing in French, Italian, English and German. It doesn't hurt to have ...

What are the long-suffering opera lovers of Taiwan to expect of State Opera Poland? There are two wildly divergent lines of thought, each suggesting a different possible answer. The first runs as ...