Cleveland Plain Dealer – Featured Story with Dorota Sobieska
Listen to this: Dorota Sobieska, co-founder of Cleveland’s Opera Circle, traveled to Bulgaria in June to appear as soprano soloist with the Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra under Grigor Palikarov. She sang four Donizetti arias, including “L’amour suo mi fe’ beata…Ah! ritorna qual ti spero” from “Roberto Devereux.” Here’s the remarkable live performance, complete with high G […]
Treasures from the attic: Virtuti Militari
A ribbon of black and blue Girdles a silver cross Virtuti Militari What does it mean — do you know? It stands for the virtues of the soldier The noble ones dream of it But to obtain this cross You must disdain death and blood
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański 1913 – 2005
My fate forever remains bound to the fate of my country. Jan Nowak-Jezioranski has passed away. Our distinguished countryman, true hero, great moral authority, a man entirely dedicated to his country, departed on his final mission on January 20, 2005 at the age of 92. He was buried with honors in his native soil at the […]
Why Eugene Bak?
The government of the Republic of Poland has honored Eugene Bak, cofounder and long time President and Executive Director of the Polish-American Cultural Center in Cleveland, with the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. We can read the following about such orders and distinctions in a law of the Sejm from October 16, […]
Legacy of Adam Grant
The tragedy of great artists, says Peggy Grant, is that they live only during the time that they work, and when they pass away, their creation dies with them if they have no one to pass on their way of seeing the world. She never wanted this fate to befall her husband, Adam Grant, and […]