The staging, directed by Laco Adamik, with a set design and costumes by Barbara Kędzierska, was especially prepared for the ongoing 24th Summer Festival of the Kraków Opera. This year’s edition of the Festival has the extensive accomplishments of this brilliant pair of artists as its hallmark, who celebrate the 50th anniversary of their artistic work this year. Tomasz Tokarczyk was the music director for the performance.

Cast: Mikołaj Zalasiński (Count di Luna), Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha (Leonora), Jadwiga Postrożna (Azucena), Dominik Sutowicz (Manrico), Wołodymyr Pańkiw (Ferrando), Monika Korybalska (Ines), Krzysztof Kozarek (Ruiz), Rafał Pawłowski (Messenger - 28.06.), Marek Gerwatowski (Messenger - 30.06.), Marcin Herman (Old Gypsy) and the Orchestra and Choir of the Kraków Opera conducted by Tomasz Tokarczyk.

It was a beautiful performance, also on account of Tomasz Tokarczyk, who conducted the orchestra with a great intuition and provided an excellent accompaniment for the singers. Yet, even though all the performers rose to the challenge, two were truly charming. These were Jadwiga Postrożna, gifted with a beautiful voice and great acting skills, and Mikołaj Zalasiński. The artist regularly appears at the Kraków stage. [...] Now, as a mature singer, he has an excellent command of his voice and when playing Count di Luna, who often is depicted exclusively as a black character, he imbued him with such humanity that I pitied him for the first time ever, wrote Anna Woźniakowska.