| Polish National Opera | |
| Krzysztof Garstka | Conductor |
| Ewa Rucińska | Director |
| Elżbieta Tolak | Costume Designer |
| Maciej Igielski | Lighting Designer |
| Period Instruments Ensemble of the Polish Royal Opera Capella Regia Polona | |
| Piotr Majewski | Video |
| Ilona Molka | Choreography |
| Katarzyna Drelich | Soprano |
| Izabella Fabrycka | Soprano |
| Iryna Melnyk | Soprano |
| Justyna Khil | Soprano |
| Gabriela Stolińska | Soprano |
| Emilia Rabczak | Mezzo-soprano |
| Marta Wiktorzak | Mezzo-soprano |
| Nataliia Tepla | Mezzo-soprano |
| Enes Aksu | Countertenor |
| Nazar Mykulyak | Baritone |
| Paweł Michalczuk | Bass-baritone |
What did Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter learn from the correspondence? What is Rembrandt’s Night Watch talking about just before marching out? And who will catch the maiden’s slipper in Fragonard’s The Swing?
The Secret Life of Paintings is a unique combination of arias from the operas of Monteverdi, Handel and Vivaldi with the visual arts from the Baroque era. Fragments of such works as Orlando, Ariodante or Alcina - ‘musical paintings’ as it were - are the setting for stories based on scenes immortalised on the canvases of old masters. The event is a co-production of the Polish National Opera and the Polish Royal Opera. The soloists of the Opera Academy of the Polish National Opera are accompanied by the Period Instruments Ensemble of the Polish Royal Opera Capella Regia Polona conducted by Krzysztof Garstka.
Recorded on 15.05.2025
