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‘I would like to congratulate you on the excellent organisation of the recently concluded Misteria Paschalia Festival,’ writes Paweł Potoroczyn, Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in a special letter to Izabela Helbin, Director of the Krakow Festival Office. He goes on to add: ‘Under your direction, the Krakow Festival Office has become one of the major cultural institutions in Poland, whose dynamic actions determine new standards in culture management.’

Check out reportage from the last four days of the 10th Misteria Paschalia Festival.

The Misteria Paschalia Festival has proved once again the musical and spiritual richness of works of early epochs. It has also shown how much we have learned to understand and appreciate them. The role of Misteria Paschalia in the broadly understood promotion of early music cannot be underestimated. The Krakow festival also has a considerable impact on the development of Polish historical music performance. … The promotional role of the festival with regard to Polish musical culture deserves great praise,’ writes Anna Woźniakowska in her summary of this year’s 10th jubilee edition of the Misteria Paschalia Festival in the weekend issue of Dziennik Polski.

Dorota Szwarcman’s blog Co w duszy gra [What’s Playing in My Soul], which is perfectly known to music fans attending the Misteria Paschalia and Sacrum Profanum festivals as well as Opera Rara concerts, won in the ranking of journalists’ blogs prepared for the third time by the PRESS magazine.

The jubilee edition of the Misteria Paschalia Festival was concluded by performances of the audience’s favourite artists: Fabio Biondi with his Europa Galante ensemble and Vivica Genaux, American mezzo-soprano. Biondi, a regular guest of the festival, was granted symbolic Keys to the city gates by Jacek Majchrowski, the Mayor of Krakow. He admitted that being encouraged by the possibility of presenting unknown musical works, he had begun to visit Krakow exactly ‘thirteen concerts ago’.

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