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Two young composers - Mateusz Ryczek and Tomasz Skweres - are collaborating to create a chamber opera, which will refer to the fairytale images of Erna Rosenstein, a Polish surrealist painter and poet. The world full of fantasy and colours presented by the poet appeals to children, their sensitivity and imagination, nevertheless, the presence of pain and fear, death and sorrow in the same depicted world may touch the hearts of adults deeply. The correlation between the traditional approach to opera and the use of the whole range of multimedia devices will enable the composers to create `over realistic` atmosphere, which is so recognizable in the works of Erna Rosenstein.
 
 The artistic vision of the stage director MaĹgorzata KaziĹska: âErna Rosenstein's fairy tales are penetrating "the subconscious attic". They play with archetypal symbols and evoke cascades of associations. These texts are awakening readerâs dormant emotions such as: fear, sadness, despair, loneliness, uncertainty, passing. All of that made me to think of artworks of well-known painters of surrealism: RenĂŠ Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico.
 The fancifulness and surprising picturesqueness of Rosenstein's texts prompted me to use the possibilities of various styles from puppet theatre as: object puppets and pantomime. Therefore, in the staging I want to bring to life everyday objects by actors-puppeteers. That objects will appear on the stage in a symbolic and often absurd way.