Polish Poster Art | Opera Festival | Wieslaw Rosocha

The Bydgoszcz Opera Festival was launched in 1994. This poster celebrates its second year in 1995. Since then the By­dgoszcz opera stage has been the venue for annual meetings of music theatres, which present their best productions here. The program for the Festival provides for the staging of operas, operettas, ballets and musicals. The poster artist here is Wieslaw Rosocha (1945-2020), a Polish illustrator and graphic designer who attended the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from 1969 to 1974. Rosocha cooperated with many cultural institutions in Poland. He is the author of posters for performances in Warsaw theaters such as the Ateneum, Wielki, Nowy, and the Krakow Opera, and here, the second annual Opera Festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He created many film and exhibition posters, and some for the Poster Museum in Wilanów. He was awarded the Bronze Medal “Gloria Artis” by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2005.