8 result(s) for opera house director in Events
Richard Wagner: Parsifal, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, 31 March
- 31 Mar 2024 4:00 PM
- classical
In Parsifal, his final music drama, Wagner embeds fear of the temptations of the world and sinful desires into a tale of redemption. The work is indeed a festival play for the stage rather than an opera.
Many viewers – perhaps out of their own fears – criticised Wagner, who wrote both the libretto and the music, for what could be called the piece’s virtue and remarkable complexity, which is ...
Ballet Pécs: Carmina Burana, Opera House Budapest, 13 December
- 3 Dec 2023 7:00 PM
- classical
Carmina Burana is an unavoidable subject, a great task that is nevertheless a wonderful challenge in the career of a choreographer and one that sooner or later draws the creative artist to it. Orff's composition elevates the medieval student songs to a loftier region.
The majesty of the music inspires the choreographer to bear testimony to this self-destructive and mechanised world with an ...
Iván Nagy International Ballet Gala, Opera House Budapest, 27 May
- 27 May 2023 7:00 PM
- classical
2014 saw the sudden passing of the international ballet artist and ballet director Iván Nagy. After his retirement, he had returned to serve his country by working as head artistic consultant for the Hungarian State Opera.
He used his wide-ranging knowledge of the profession to help the work of the Hungarian National Ballet; his departure left a gaping hole in the members of the corps de ...
The Wooden Prince, Opera House Budapest, 17 February
- 17 Feb 2023 7:00 PM
- classical
“There is no date in the half-a-century history of our Opera House as important as the premier day of Béla Bartók’s first pantomime ballet The Wooden Prince on 12 May 1917.
It was the first time that the Hungarian spirit, the genius of Vörösmarty, Petőfi and Ady’s nation was expressed in its true greatness and absolute authenticity in the music played in the Hungarian opera”, writes ...
Opera: War & Peace, Opera House Budapest, 8 February
- 8 Feb 2023 6:00 PM
- classical
Opera in thirteen scenes, in two parts, in Russian with Hungarian and English subtitles
Prokofiev was inspired to compose a musical drama based on Leo Tolstoy’s colossal historical novel War and Peace by the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany.
The Peace in the first half of the opera is a series of Prokofiev’s most beautiful and intimate tableaus, and it forms a strong contrast with the ...
Waltraud Meier & Samuel Hasselhorn, Opera House Budapest, 20 November
- 20 Nov 2022 7:30 PM
- classical
Song recital in two parts, with Hungarian, English, and German subtitles
This format was made necessary by life. By size, the Ybl Palace is one of the medium-sized opera houses, but in terms of beauty it is first class, which we further enhance by lighting it gorgeously.
On its podium, or the top of its orchestra pit, the soloist can stand almost fully surrounded by the audience, and ...
Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Attila, Margaret Island Open-Air Theatre, 14 August
- 14 Aug 2022 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Semi-staged opera in three acts, two parts, in Italian, with Hungarian and English surtitles
Giuseppe Verdi, the most brilliant of Italian opera's masters, created a fiery, dynamic, complex, and distinct work of art, inspired by Attila the Hun, “the scourge of God”, the most famous of the European Huns’ grand kings. The work’s libretto was written in part by both Temistocle Solera and ...
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Liszt Academy, 4 March
- 4 Mar 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Originally, Tchaikovsky intended to dedicate his work (1874–75) to Nikolai Rubinstein, but his pianist-composer-conductor friend was scathing in his criticism of the piece, thus the dedication is actually to the student and first husband of the daughter (Cosima) of Ferenc Liszt, Hans von Bülow, who debuted the work in Boston in 1875.
The piano concerto took what the composer considered its ...
Richard Wagner: Parsifal, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, 31 March
- 31 Mar 2024 4:00 PM
- classical
In Parsifal, his final music drama, Wagner embeds fear of the temptations of the world and sinful desires into a tale of redemption. The work is indeed a festival play for the stage rather than an opera.
Many viewers – perhaps out of their own fears – criticised Wagner, who wrote both the libretto and the music, for what could be called the piece’s virtue and remarkable complexity, which is ...
Ballet Pécs: Carmina Burana, Opera House Budapest, 13 December
- 3 Dec 2023 7:00 PM
- classical
Carmina Burana is an unavoidable subject, a great task that is nevertheless a wonderful challenge in the career of a choreographer and one that sooner or later draws the creative artist to it. Orff's composition elevates the medieval student songs to a loftier region.
The majesty of the music inspires the choreographer to bear testimony to this self-destructive and mechanised world with an ...
Iván Nagy International Ballet Gala, Opera House Budapest, 27 May
- 27 May 2023 7:00 PM
- classical
2014 saw the sudden passing of the international ballet artist and ballet director Iván Nagy. After his retirement, he had returned to serve his country by working as head artistic consultant for the Hungarian State Opera.
He used his wide-ranging knowledge of the profession to help the work of the Hungarian National Ballet; his departure left a gaping hole in the members of the corps de ...
The Wooden Prince, Opera House Budapest, 17 February
- 17 Feb 2023 7:00 PM
- classical
“There is no date in the half-a-century history of our Opera House as important as the premier day of Béla Bartók’s first pantomime ballet The Wooden Prince on 12 May 1917.
It was the first time that the Hungarian spirit, the genius of Vörösmarty, Petőfi and Ady’s nation was expressed in its true greatness and absolute authenticity in the music played in the Hungarian opera”, writes ...
Opera: War & Peace, Opera House Budapest, 8 February
- 8 Feb 2023 6:00 PM
- classical
Opera in thirteen scenes, in two parts, in Russian with Hungarian and English subtitles
Prokofiev was inspired to compose a musical drama based on Leo Tolstoy’s colossal historical novel War and Peace by the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany.
The Peace in the first half of the opera is a series of Prokofiev’s most beautiful and intimate tableaus, and it forms a strong contrast with the ...
Waltraud Meier & Samuel Hasselhorn, Opera House Budapest, 20 November
- 20 Nov 2022 7:30 PM
- classical
Song recital in two parts, with Hungarian, English, and German subtitles
This format was made necessary by life. By size, the Ybl Palace is one of the medium-sized opera houses, but in terms of beauty it is first class, which we further enhance by lighting it gorgeously.
On its podium, or the top of its orchestra pit, the soloist can stand almost fully surrounded by the audience, and ...
Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Attila, Margaret Island Open-Air Theatre, 14 August
- 14 Aug 2022 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Semi-staged opera in three acts, two parts, in Italian, with Hungarian and English surtitles
Giuseppe Verdi, the most brilliant of Italian opera's masters, created a fiery, dynamic, complex, and distinct work of art, inspired by Attila the Hun, “the scourge of God”, the most famous of the European Huns’ grand kings. The work’s libretto was written in part by both Temistocle Solera and ...
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Liszt Academy, 4 March
- 4 Mar 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
Originally, Tchaikovsky intended to dedicate his work (1874–75) to Nikolai Rubinstein, but his pianist-composer-conductor friend was scathing in his criticism of the piece, thus the dedication is actually to the student and first husband of the daughter (Cosima) of Ferenc Liszt, Hans von Bülow, who debuted the work in Boston in 1875.
The piano concerto took what the composer considered its ...