"Cud mniemany" / "The Pretended Miracle" by Bogusławski, print

"Cud mniemany"/"The Pretended Miracle" by Bogusławski, print. “Cud mniemany, czyli Krakowiacy i Górale”/“The Pretended Miracle, or Krakovians and Highlanders”, the vaudeville with Jan Stefani’s music to Wojciech Bogusławski’s libretto was staged on Sunday, 1st March 1794, in the National Theatre in Warsaw. It is considered the first national opera. In view of the tense political situation before the third partition of Poland, the Polish text can be regarded as a masterpiece of allusion. It is no accident that the words “freedom” and “whole” appear in its choral parts; the aim of the libretto was to raise the spirits of Poles in the period of the partitions.