Liszt Fest programme announced at unusual card game
Liszt Fest returns in 2023 too! The press was invited to attend a gathering where a card game was played and programmes announced.
Theater
A “faithless wife” burnt, her love beheaded: the brutality of old ballads
The performance explains the infidelity of a woman who cannot forget her first and true love and flees her bad marriage.
There is too much singing in opera, Debussy said
Debussy: “I wished music to have such freedom to which it is probably better suited than any other art form…”
Frau Holle is a children’s opera this time
The story of Frau Holle describes an important characteristic of being ready for school – a sense of responsibility.
A wise woman gives up her younger love for the heiress
A wise woman who, realising her age, gives up her much younger love for a young and beautiful heiress in Der Rosenkavalier.
Rural people were keeping touch with the dead at Easter
There are different variations for the Easter “splashing”, from immersing the person in a lot of water to to some slight sprinkling.
A love triangle between brothers – Rameau’s Castor and Pollux
Castor and Pollux are indeed twin brothers, but from two different fathers. Pollux, Zeus’ son, is immortal, but Castor is mortal…
Wonderful Nativity by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
This production was born from a mixture of peasant folklore and imagination, and was first performed at Müpa Budapest in 2018.
Bence Vági: most of all, Kristály is a story of love
Kristály is an ice queen who suffers from a broken heart and freezes the world around her, not wanting to let any emotion in anymore.
King Pomádé: György Ránki’s children’s opera is a parody of power
Ránki originally wrote King Pomádé as a children’s radio opera in 1950, and three years later adapted it into a full-length stage work.
The Face in the Mirror: two men fall in love with the female clone
Face in the Mirror turns our image of the world upside down: the clone is more human than the person coming from a mother’s womb.
Sleepless: gloomy yet beautiful Péter Eötvös opera in the Müpa
Péter Eötvös adapted Jon Fosse’s Trilogy. The story of precarious couple Alida and Asle is childishly innocent yet deeply sinful…
Péter Eötvös: I ran away from Bartók’s works to avoid falling into repetition
For me the genre of opera is an absolute miracle – says Péter Eötvös before the premiere of his newest opera Sleepless.
María Pagés: flamenco is a genre for a lifetime
Let’s look a bit behind the scenes through the story of a world famous dancer, María Pagés. Soon at the Bartók Spring!
Lucrezia Borgia rules over life and death – says director Ferenc Anger
In fact, Lucrezia Borgia is a Renaissance person who combines the sciences and the arts. A semi-staged opera in the Müpa.
Here, Romanians, Hungarians and the Roma coexist peacefully – interview with Zsolt Juhász
Dance of the Mezőség is very unified, but every ethnic group has its own traits. It was a difficult task for the dancers and musicians…
Transporters didn’t need an update; rape is, unfortunately, an eternal topic
There are several characters in this story: “the transporters” themselves, the rapists, or the mother, and a little girl.
New opera-musical version of The Master and Margarita – interview with director Vajk Szente
The music is exciting: classical opera on the one hand, rock music on the other, and thirdly, there are musical elements – says the director.
A married couple on the stage of heaven
Mari Simon, actress, and Gábor Mészöly, writer and dramaturg, recently passed away. Writer Gyula Böszörményi says farewell to them.
Arno Schuitemaker – if you could see me now… and now… and now…
Arno Schuitemaker is originally an aeronautical engineer, which makes his choreographies to be always led by rationality.
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