Opera goes outdoors – this is the hallmark of the festival with which the stage at Lubicz Street welcomes the arrival of summer. The culmination of its 26th edition will be performances in the Wawel arcade courtyard, which will see as many as three opera heroines walking on the castle hill: Tosca, Aida and – how else! – Queen Bona Sforza, the protagonist of one of the Kraków Opera’s latest productions: Zygmunt Krauze’s work with a libretto by Vincenzo de Vivo, which made its stage debut last November. Amidst the greenery we will hear a concert on the occasion of the Kraków Opera’s 70th anniversary Operetta in the Garden, or Where Love Lives. The best-loved melodies from operettas and musicals (including Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, The Csárdás Princess, My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof) will be presented on stage in the Botanic Garden by guests, including: Krystyna Tyburowska, Bożena Zawiślak-Dolny and Andrzej Biegun, as well as soloists, the OK Choir, Orchestra and Ballet. The festival also features a gala concert with Polityka’s Passport winner Gabriela Legun, Nabucco – Verdi’s hit set in ancient Babylonia, a presentation by students of the ballet studio, and performances Music and Magic and The Fisherman and His Wife for children, as well as concerts throughout Małopolska in July and August.

31 May 2025, 11am, 5pm
1 June 2025, noon
Music and Magic

31 May 2025, 1:30pm
1 June 2025, 10am
The Fisherman and His Wife

5, 6, 8 June 2025, 7pm
Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University
Operetta in the Garden

13, 14 June 2025, 6:30pm
15 June 2025, 5pm
Nabucco

21, 22 June 2025, 6pm
Ballet Is Us!

22 June 2025, 6pm
Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic Hall in Kraków
Kraków Opera Gala

27 June 2025, 8pm
Wawel Royal Castle, Arcaded Courtyard
Tosca at the Wawel Castle

29 June 2025, 9pm
Wawel Royal Castle, Arcaded Courtyard
Bona Sforza at the Wawel Castle

2 July 2025, 8pm
Wawel Royal Castle, Arcaded Courtyard
Aida at the Wawel Castle

4 July 2025, 8pm
Busko Zdrój
Nabucco

6 July 2025, 7:30pm
Zamek w Nowym Wiśniczu
Bona Sforza

8 August 2025, TBA
Zamek Królewski w Niepołomicach
Bona Sforza

10 August 2025, 8pm
Krynica Zdrój
Aida

13 August 2025, 6:30pm
The Haunted Manor

15 August 2025, 8pm
Krynica Zdrój
The Haunted Manor

Unless stated otherwise, all events take pace on the stages of the Kraków Opera.

Photo: Kraków Opera Summer Festival 2024, finale gala at the Wawel Castle, photo by Andrii Kotelnikov