Abstract
At the end of the eighteenth century, the concepts of people, nation and homeland influenced the first Polish operas, whose topics were set in the countryside. Librettos and music incorporated authentic elements drawn from the speech and folk songs of different regions. In particular, King Stanislaw August Poniatowski promoted the Enlightenment ideals of “rural opera”, connected with the improvement of the wretched social conditions of the peasantry (i.e., the people or nation). Moreover, the concept of the fatherland is recognizable in Kantata w dzien inauguracji statui krola Jana III (Warsaw 1788).
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