Monumental Concert In Budapest Vigadó - The Legend Of St Elizabeth, 15 August

  • 6 Aug 2015 9:04 AM
Monumental Concert In Budapest  Vigadó - The Legend Of St Elizabeth, 15 August
Reconstructed performance of the 1865 premiere of Franz Liszt's Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth. Franz Liszt's grand scale masterpiece dedicated to the memory of Princess Saint Elisabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) was premierred on 15 August, 1865 in the Pesti Vigadó. In 2015 on the same day and in the same place the commemorial concert of the reconstructed original, Hungarian version of the composition will be performed by outsanding representatives of the Hungarian music life, based on the ideas of world-famous opera singer Éva Marton and composer-conductor Balázs Kocsár.

Performers:

Brigitta Kele – Soprano (Saint Elizabeth)
Zsolt Haja – Baritone (Landgrave Ludwig)
Krisztián Cser – Bass (Landgrave Hermann)
Szilvia Vörös – Alto (Landgravin Sophie)
Csaba Szegedi – Baritone (Seneschal, a Hungarian magnate)
István Kovács – Bass (Friedrich II)

Conductor: Balázs Kocsár

The Cantemus Children's Choir (founded in 1975 by Dénes Szabó) is the multi international prize winning senior pupils' choir of the Kodály Zoltán Primary School in Nyiregyháza, Hungary. Since its formation in 1975 the choir has achieved the highest of standards in choral performance and has travelled extensively to give concerts, compete, and take part in festivals in countries throughout Europe and the rest of the world – including Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, South America and the United States of America.

The Cantemus Mixed Choir
Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra Debrecen
K
odály Choir Debrecen (founded by György Gulyás in 1955) was the choir of the Conservatory of Music at the time of its establishment. The first overwhelming international success was achieved at the Choral Festival organized at Llangollen, Wales, in the category of girls' choir, in 1958. The victory in Arezzo, Italy, a year later started their career as a mixed choir.

Since 1971 the Kodály Choir has been a professional ensemble maintained by Debrecen, the second largest town of Hungary.

Information and interviews available on the website of the event: http://szenterzsebet150.com/

For tickets visit vigado.hu

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