35 result(s) for budapest opera house in Events
Verdi's Rigoletto, Opera House Budapest, 27 June
- 27 Jun 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
Opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles
The lecherous noblemen of the Mantuan court must be entertained, and a deformed jester spares no one his jeers to ensure that they are. And yet he prays that the scathing mockery he heaps on the suffering of others will not return to haunt him.
All he must do is seal his work off from his family life. But when ...
Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, Opera House Budapest, 25 June
- 25 Jun 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
Opera in three parts, four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles
The vulnerable protagonists of Aida face an agonising moral dilemma: to what should they be loyal? To their homelands? To their families? Or to their love?
The story of the opera is a product of war: not only in its writing, but on the stage as well.
The sounds of war resonate throughout the tale ...
Zoltán Kodály: The Spinning Room, Opera House Budapest, 19 June
- 19 Jun 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Folk scenes in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English subtitles
“A people can best be known through their folk songs,” claimed Zoltán Kodály, one of the crucial proponents of Hungarian music, whose main ambition as a composer, collector of folk songs and music teacher was to inculcate a love for Hungarian folk song and to cultivate a knowledgeable audience.
The Spinning Room is the epitome ...
The Pygmalion Effect, Opera House Budapest, 26 May
- 26 May 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Ballet in two acts.
In Greek mythology, the unmarried king and sculptor, Pygmalion falls in love with his own work, as his sculpture of a woman turns out to be so perfect and life-like.
“This ballet is a choreographed interpretation of the myth of artist and his work, shedding light on how much art and life are interconnected yet distinct from each other. The ballet focuses on a girl ...
The Daughter of the Regiment, Opera House Budapest, 22 May
- 22 May 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Comic opera in two acts, in French, with spoken dialogues in Hungarian, with Hungarian, English, and French subtitles
Since being orphaned as a small child, the young and plucky Marie has grown up in the French army. Unaware of her aristocratic origins, she falls in love with a handsome peasant lad. Will she really marry him out of love?
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, La fille du régiment ...
'Carmina Burana', Opera House Budapest, 16 April
- 16 Apr 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Scenic cantata, in the original languages, with Hungarian and English surtitles.
O Fortuna. Everyone knows the overwhelmingly powerful opening motifs of Carl Orff's most famous work. What fewer people know is that Carmina Burana was not intended to be an oratorical work, but was instead expressly meant for the stage.
This becomes clear from the piece's (originally Latin) subtitle: “Secular ...
Cavalleria Rusticana: Pagliacci, Opera House Budapest, 24 December
- 4 Apr 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
“Easter Showdown Motivated By Jealousy!” “Clown Commits Murder On Stage!”
These are two headlines that might have graced Edoardo Sonzogno’s front pages, and it is the Milanese newspaper publisher and his annual opera-writing competition we have to thank for Italy’s two most popular one-act works.
The two pieces can be considered twin operas as they have much in common, and the works are ...
Mayerling, Opera House Budapest, 3 April
- 3 Apr 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Ballet in three acts
Kenneth MacMillan's fourth full-length ballet relates the tragic story of the heir to the Austrian throne and his mistress.
The choreographer's treatment of the 1889 double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf and Mary Vetsera in light of the social, political and personal pressures that beset the two protagonists resulted in an extraordinarily shocking work, one widely ...
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 ...
Verdi's Rigoletto, Opera House Budapest, 27 June
- 27 Jun 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
Opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles
The lecherous noblemen of the Mantuan court must be entertained, and a deformed jester spares no one his jeers to ensure that they are. And yet he prays that the scathing mockery he heaps on the suffering of others will not return to haunt him.
All he must do is seal his work off from his family life. But when ...
Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, Opera House Budapest, 25 June
- 25 Jun 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
Opera in three parts, four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles
The vulnerable protagonists of Aida face an agonising moral dilemma: to what should they be loyal? To their homelands? To their families? Or to their love?
The story of the opera is a product of war: not only in its writing, but on the stage as well.
The sounds of war resonate throughout the tale ...
Zoltán Kodály: The Spinning Room, Opera House Budapest, 19 June
- 19 Jun 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Folk scenes in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English subtitles
“A people can best be known through their folk songs,” claimed Zoltán Kodály, one of the crucial proponents of Hungarian music, whose main ambition as a composer, collector of folk songs and music teacher was to inculcate a love for Hungarian folk song and to cultivate a knowledgeable audience.
The Spinning Room is the epitome ...
The Pygmalion Effect, Opera House Budapest, 26 May
- 26 May 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Ballet in two acts.
In Greek mythology, the unmarried king and sculptor, Pygmalion falls in love with his own work, as his sculpture of a woman turns out to be so perfect and life-like.
“This ballet is a choreographed interpretation of the myth of artist and his work, shedding light on how much art and life are interconnected yet distinct from each other. The ballet focuses on a girl ...
The Daughter of the Regiment, Opera House Budapest, 22 May
- 22 May 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Comic opera in two acts, in French, with spoken dialogues in Hungarian, with Hungarian, English, and French subtitles
Since being orphaned as a small child, the young and plucky Marie has grown up in the French army. Unaware of her aristocratic origins, she falls in love with a handsome peasant lad. Will she really marry him out of love?
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, La fille du régiment ...
'Carmina Burana', Opera House Budapest, 16 April
- 16 Apr 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Scenic cantata, in the original languages, with Hungarian and English surtitles.
O Fortuna. Everyone knows the overwhelmingly powerful opening motifs of Carl Orff's most famous work. What fewer people know is that Carmina Burana was not intended to be an oratorical work, but was instead expressly meant for the stage.
This becomes clear from the piece's (originally Latin) subtitle: “Secular ...
Cavalleria Rusticana: Pagliacci, Opera House Budapest, 24 December
- 4 Apr 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
“Easter Showdown Motivated By Jealousy!” “Clown Commits Murder On Stage!”
These are two headlines that might have graced Edoardo Sonzogno’s front pages, and it is the Milanese newspaper publisher and his annual opera-writing competition we have to thank for Italy’s two most popular one-act works.
The two pieces can be considered twin operas as they have much in common, and the works are ...
Mayerling, Opera House Budapest, 3 April
- 3 Apr 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Ballet in three acts
Kenneth MacMillan's fourth full-length ballet relates the tragic story of the heir to the Austrian throne and his mistress.
The choreographer's treatment of the 1889 double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf and Mary Vetsera in light of the social, political and personal pressures that beset the two protagonists resulted in an extraordinarily shocking work, one widely ...
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 ...