Ignace Paderewski was a pianist and composer. His opera, Manru, premiered in 1901.
Success at its creation in 1901, his work with Wagnerian accents is a discovery. It is this score that reveals the Opera of Nancy, city that welcomed a king of Poland in exile. The libretto overdevelops, and there are clumsiness in this lyrical drama in German, where a villager cuts herself off from her family by living her love for a freedom-loving gypsy.