professor of the Drama and Theatre Department of the Institute of Polish Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His academic focus is musical theatre of the 18th and 19th centuries and the relations between art and film. Book publications: Teatr I religia sztuki. ‘Parsifal’ Ryszarda Wagnera [The theatre and religion of art. Richard Wagner’s Parsifal] (Poznań, 2004), Opera i dramat muzyczny. Szkice [Essays on opera and musical drama] (Poznań, 2006) and Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (Poznań, 2007).