The Haunted Manor

The Haunted Manor
Opera by Stanisław Moniuszko
A production at the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, on 22 September 1966
Native title
Straszny dwór
LibrettistJan Chęciński
LanguagePolish
Premiere
28 September 1865 (1865-09-28)
Teatr Wielki, Warsaw

The Haunted Manor (Polish: Straszny dwór) is an opera in four acts composed by Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko in 1861–1864. The libretto was written by Jan Chęciński. Despite being a romance and a comedy, it has strong Polish patriotic undertones, which made it both popular with the Polish public and unpopular – to the point of being banned – by the Russian authorities of Congress Poland.

It is considered Moniuszko's best opera and the greatest 19th-century Polish opera score. However, it is mostly unknown outside Poland.

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