76 result(s) for hungarian opera in Events
Liszt The Legend of St Elizabeth, National Concert Hall Budapest, 9 October
- 9 Oct 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
From the autumn of 1861, Liszt spent more and more time in Rome, where his interest turned towards church music. In 1862 he completed his first oratorio, The Legend of St Elizabeth. Liszt had long been intrigued by the life of the Hungarian princess, and he even visited her former home, the castle of Wartburg, in the company of the Grand Duke of Weimar. ‘My relationship to St Elizabeth is ...
Carmen, Opera House Budapest, 8 November
- 8 Oct 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
Opera in four acts, in French, with Hungarian, English, and French subtitles
The productions by the Catalan director Calixto Bieito, the “Quentin Tarantino of the opera stage”, cut incisively into the reality of their stories, making them shockingly provocative. And what work would suit this directing style better – with its similarly crazed passions and emotions – than Georges Bizet’s French ...
Live Broadcast - Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann, Palace of Arts Budapest, 6 October
- 6 Oct 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
The subject matter is far from the only thing that promises to make this performance of Offenbach’s last work for the stage so fantastic, as we will get to hear some wonderful singers when Bartlett Sher’s captivating 2009 production of Tales of Hoffmann returns to the Met’s series of HD transmissions. The title role of the poet escaping into alcohol goes to today’s top French tenor, Benjamin ...
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 8, Opera House Budapest, 1 October
- 1 Oct 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Concert performance in Latin and German with Hungarian, English, and original-language subtitles
Thanks to the spectacular development of our Orchestra and Chorus, since 2020 we have been able to perform Mahler’s enormous creation at the beginning of each season as a sort of preparation. Each year, it is directed by a different conductor. The work was last performed in Hungary 13 years before ...
The Taming of the Shrew, Opera House, 6 September
- 6 Sep 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has inspired a string of stage and film adaptations. The most important ballet adaptations include Maurice Béjart’s 1954 choreography set to the music of Scarlatti, the Czech Vera Untermüllerov.’s 1961 work based on the melodies of a Czech composer, and John Cranko’s 1961 version, likewise based on the music of Scarlatti.
This series continued in 1994 ...
Nógrád Dance Ensemble, Vörösmarty Tér Budapest, 18 August
- 18 Aug 2024 2:00 PM
- contemporary
The ensemble presents the most beautiful gems of the folk music and folk dance treasures of the Carpathian Basin. The choreographies in the edited programme are the works of the most outstanding choreographers of contemporary Hungarian dance.
Founded in 1975 in Salgótarján, the Nógrád Dance Ensemble is now Nógrád County’s folk dance ensemble with the richest past, and is operated by the Public ...
La Traviata, Opera House Budapest, 30 July
- 30 Jul 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
The sultry atmosphere of intoxicating parties, an unbridled life of luxury, sparkling champagne – and a slow but lethal illness. This was what existence was like for the "lady of the camellias" before her true love walked into her life.
La traviata– The fallen woman.
The truly sensational theme swept through the art of the 19th century, making a stunningly beautiful Parisian courtesan named ...
Verdi's Rigoletto, Opera House Budapest, 14 July
- 14 Jul 2024 6:30 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 ...
Liszt The Legend of St Elizabeth, National Concert Hall Budapest, 9 October
- 9 Oct 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
From the autumn of 1861, Liszt spent more and more time in Rome, where his interest turned towards church music. In 1862 he completed his first oratorio, The Legend of St Elizabeth. Liszt had long been intrigued by the life of the Hungarian princess, and he even visited her former home, the castle of Wartburg, in the company of the Grand Duke of Weimar. ‘My relationship to St Elizabeth is ...
Carmen, Opera House Budapest, 8 November
- 8 Oct 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
Opera in four acts, in French, with Hungarian, English, and French subtitles
The productions by the Catalan director Calixto Bieito, the “Quentin Tarantino of the opera stage”, cut incisively into the reality of their stories, making them shockingly provocative. And what work would suit this directing style better – with its similarly crazed passions and emotions – than Georges Bizet’s French ...
Live Broadcast - Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann, Palace of Arts Budapest, 6 October
- 6 Oct 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
The subject matter is far from the only thing that promises to make this performance of Offenbach’s last work for the stage so fantastic, as we will get to hear some wonderful singers when Bartlett Sher’s captivating 2009 production of Tales of Hoffmann returns to the Met’s series of HD transmissions. The title role of the poet escaping into alcohol goes to today’s top French tenor, Benjamin ...
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 8, Opera House Budapest, 1 October
- 1 Oct 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Concert performance in Latin and German with Hungarian, English, and original-language subtitles
Thanks to the spectacular development of our Orchestra and Chorus, since 2020 we have been able to perform Mahler’s enormous creation at the beginning of each season as a sort of preparation. Each year, it is directed by a different conductor. The work was last performed in Hungary 13 years before ...
The Taming of the Shrew, Opera House, 6 September
- 6 Sep 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has inspired a string of stage and film adaptations. The most important ballet adaptations include Maurice Béjart’s 1954 choreography set to the music of Scarlatti, the Czech Vera Untermüllerov.’s 1961 work based on the melodies of a Czech composer, and John Cranko’s 1961 version, likewise based on the music of Scarlatti.
This series continued in 1994 ...
Nógrád Dance Ensemble, Vörösmarty Tér Budapest, 18 August
- 18 Aug 2024 2:00 PM
- contemporary
The ensemble presents the most beautiful gems of the folk music and folk dance treasures of the Carpathian Basin. The choreographies in the edited programme are the works of the most outstanding choreographers of contemporary Hungarian dance.
Founded in 1975 in Salgótarján, the Nógrád Dance Ensemble is now Nógrád County’s folk dance ensemble with the richest past, and is operated by the Public ...
La Traviata, Opera House Budapest, 30 July
- 30 Jul 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
The sultry atmosphere of intoxicating parties, an unbridled life of luxury, sparkling champagne – and a slow but lethal illness. This was what existence was like for the "lady of the camellias" before her true love walked into her life.
La traviata– The fallen woman.
The truly sensational theme swept through the art of the 19th century, making a stunningly beautiful Parisian courtesan named ...
Verdi's Rigoletto, Opera House Budapest, 14 July
- 14 Jul 2024 6:30 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 ...