It’s a story, in a sense, archetypal. There’s a father’s love for his daughter, rediscovered after years, but also a power struggle and betrayal,” the director tells me a moment later, when we meet during a rehearsal break. „Truly Shakespearean themes and multifaceted, complex characters. The title was chosen for this season at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera by the brilliant Italian conductor Fabio Biondi, who will lead the orchestra, and Mariusz Treliński contacted me with the offer to direct. I immediately invited my regular film collaborator, playwright Robert Bolesta, who, like me, is making his operatic debut, to work on the adaptation,” says Smoczyńska. (Vogue)