Further dates: 21, 24, 27 and 29 September 2013; 1, 3, 5 and 8 October 2013 Opera House

Ferenc Liszt, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz – Lilla Pártay: The Golden Brush - Ballet in three acts
Original Premiére 26 October

Lilla Pártay is Hungary’s most accomplished master of bringing ballets d’action to the stage. Her most recent large-scale endeavour follows the life path of the painter Mihály Munkácsy using the techniques of classical ballet. Depicted are the struggles of the impoverished carpenter’s apprentice and his rise to world fame, following him from Budapest, past  Vienna, on to Düsseldorf and Paris where he created his world-renowned paintings Christ before Pilate, Golgotha, Ecce Homo and Conquest.

Further dates: 26, 27, 30 and 31 October 2013; 2, 6, 9 and 10 November 2013 Opera House

Béla Bartók / János Vajda: Bluebeard / Mario - Operas in one act - Première 9 November

Over the course of nearly 100 years, the symbolist drama Bluebeard has been partnered with just as many other works, although it has never been played together with János Vajda’s Mario. In this unique interpretation, the two tragedies (Bluebeard and Mario) share an embodiment of the heady possibility of rising above the common man. The production is being staged on the occasion of the official grand reopening of Erkel Theatre, the second venue of the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest with more than 2000 seats.

Further dates: 9, 12, 14, 16, 21 and 23 November 2013 Erkel Theatre

György Selmeczi: Spiritualists - Opera in two acts - World Premiére 19 January 2014

Further dates: 19, 22, 25 and 28 January 2014 Opera House

Ferenc Lehár – Ronald Hynd: The Merry Widow - Comic ballet in three parts - Hungarian Premiére 22 February 2014

Dates: 22, 23, 26 and 27 February 2014; 1, 2, 5 and 6 March 2014 Erkel Theatre

STRAUSS150 - Richard Strauss 150 Festival - May Celebration (2014)

For the jubilee year of Richard Strauss’s 150th birthday, the Opera will run all six of the operas generally considered to be the composer’s most important creative works. Four new productions have been added to the two previously on the repertoire, and each of the six will be performed twice with a festival-calibre cast of top artists. Before the festival’s final performance, we will also be inaugurating Márk Lelkes’s newly sculpted statue of Strauss, which will henceforth grace the Opera House.

Programme of the Strauss150 Festival

Die Frau ohne Schatten (25, 28 and 31 May, 4 June)

Arabella (27 and 30 May)

Salome (29 May, 1 June)

Ariadne auf Naxos (3 and 7 June)

Der Rosenkavalier (5 and 10 June)

Elektra (8 and 11 June)

Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra concert – conductor: Pinchas Steinberg (9 June)

Strauss premières in 2013/14

Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow)

Hungarian Premiére 25 May 2014 - Opera in three acts

Further dates: 25, 28 and 31 May 2014; 4 June 2014 Opera House

C. W. Gluck / R. Strauss: Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigenia in Tauris) - Premiére 22 June 2014 - Opera in four acts, in two parts

Further dates: 22, 25 and 27 June 2014 Opera House

Repertoire: Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele - Opera in three acts

Dates: 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21 and 23 February 2014 Opera House

Leoš Janaček: Jenůfa - Opera in three acts

Dates: 22, 25, 27 and 29 March 2014; 2 and 4 April 2014 Opera House

Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) - Opera in one act (original 1841 version)

Dates: 26, 28 and 30 March 2014; 1, 3 and 5 April 2014 Opera House

Ferenc Erkel: Hunyadi László - Opera in three acts

Dates: 19, 21, 24, 26 and 28 June 2014 Opera House

Source: Hungarian State Opera