''Legenda Bałtyku'' ("The Legend of the Baltic") is a 1924 Polish

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Feliks Nowowiejski Feliks Nowowiejski (7 February 1877 – 18 January 1946) was a Polish composer, conductor, concert organist, and music teacher. Nowowiejski was born in Wartenburg (today Barczewo) in Warmia in the Prussian Partition of Poland (then admini ...

. It is a neo-romantic nationalist opera. ''Legenda Bałtyku'' premiered in

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint Joh ...

, Poland, on 28 November 1924. Opera Poznan staged the opera in 1955 and Lodz Opera Company staged it in 1965.Józef Borzyszkowski The Kashubs, Pomerania and Gdańsk 2005 - Page 111 "The most famous was Feliks Nowowiejski, author of the melody of the Rota nti-German anthem written by Maria Konopnicka and in 1910and the Kashubian Anthem; he composed also the opera Legend of the Baltic,"

Plot

The plot concerns the task set for the poor fisherman Doman (tenor) by Mestwin, the father of the maiden Bogna - to obtain the ring of Queen Jurata whose kingdom lies in the depths of the Baltic Sea. The second act aria of Doman "Czy ty mnie kochasz, o dziewczyno?" (Do you love me oh girl?") is still occasionally performed in recitals.

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Ewa B. Aria lyrics and translation
Polish-language operas 1924 operas {{Opera-stub