Karol Szymanowski Roxanas Song

Roxana s Song, for soprano orchestra (from opera King Roger ), (1924) Barbara Zagórzanka, soprano Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra (Katowice) Karol Stryja The Pieśn Roksany (Roxana s Song) is from Szymanowski s successful opera Król Roger (King Roger), in which Queen Roxane, wife of King Roger II of Sicily, espouses the Dionysian religion of the East, brought to her by a shepherdprophet from India, with whom she falls in love. The libretto of the opera was by the poet and composer Jaroslaw Iwaskiew