"I can say that I hale a full team of people ready to put on the 88 operas in our repertoire, and most certainly I hale enough people to do Mozart. I can't imagine the festival being cancelled some day because we haven't got people to work. This would not only be a great personal failure, it would simply be embarassing," says Stefan Sutkowski, the Director General of the Cameral Opera in Warsaw and of the Mozart Festival.

Maciej Łukasz Gołębiowski talks to the Director General of the Warsaw Cameral Opera: We ar meeting a few weeks prior to the opening of th XVIII Mozart Festival - an event without precendent in the World in terms of its' scale. How did it all begin? The biggest inspiration was the 200 anniversary of Mozart's death back in 1991. Perhaps this isn't the most pleasant occasion, but it gave us the opportunity to once again praise the memory of his genius and his work which is now being enjoyed by the entire world. About one year earlier, there was a meeting in Ital, near the border with Austra, in a city where the young Mozart once gave a concert on church organs at the local Parish. Delegations from around the world were invited and everyone proposed some form of celebrating this anniversary. Going there, I knew that I wanted to put on all of his operetic works here in Poland - most of them were already in our Repertoire anyways. There were about seven more premieres left to prepar