Awards and distinctions:
- Grand Prix - Festival of Polish Classic in Opole, 1984,
- Award of the Solidarity Committee for Independent Culture for the series of productions of Mozart’s works in the Warsaw Chamber Opera, 1989,
- Honourable Citizen of Poznań city, 1989,
- The Best Opera Director, 1990,
- K. Swinarski Award for outstanding achievement in the field of opera directing, 1990,
- The Award of the Minister of Culture, 1991,
- Person of the Year, 1991,
- The Gold Order of Merit, 1992,
- Leon Schiller Award for the lifetime achievement in the field of music theatre, 1994,
- Polonia Restituta, 2001,
- Honourable Citizen of Jarosław town, 2003,
- Officer’s Cross of the Order of the Restitution of Poland for outstanding contribution in activities for democratic changes in Poland, for achievements in his professional and social work, awarded on the occasion of 40 anniversary of the events of March 1968, 2008.
Scholarships, trainings:
- Jerzy Grotowski - the Laboratorium Theatre, Wrocław, 1967-73,
- Erwin Axer - the Theatre Academy, the Współczesny Theatre in Warsaw, 1975-79,
- Glyndebourne Festival - Peter Hall, 1981,
- Covent Garden - Fondation pouer une Entraide Intellectuelle Europeenne, 1981,
- Peter Brook - the International Centre of Theatre Research, Paris, 1986,
- the USA Department of State opera scholarship, 1988.
