14 result(s) for verdi in Events
Falstaff, Opera House Budapest, 22 November
- 22 Nov 2024 6:30 PM
- classical
Comic opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles
Performance length: 3 hours 15 minutes, with 2 intermissions.
"There is only one way to end your career more splendidly than with Otello, and that is to end it with Falstaff!" So Verdi was told by his librettist and good friend, Arrigo Boito.
Although the elderly master had not tried his hand at ...
Requiem Opera House Budapest
- 3 Nov 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Staged oratorio in Latin, with Hungarian, English, and Latin subtitles
In recent years, even decades, it has become a common practice to completely or partially stage certain oratorical works. After Messiah and Matthäus-Passion, nothing could be more suitable to continue the practice than Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem, which is claimed by many, half-seriously, but certainly aptly, to be their ...
Messa per Rossini, National Concert Hall Budapest
- 1 Nov 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
When Rossini died in 1868, Verdi urged his compatriots to compose a requiem in memory of the departed master, with each composer taking on a single movement.
The work was completed, but the originally planned premiere fell through, and it was not until 1988 that it was first played, in Stuttgart, with Helmuth Rilling conducting.
At this All Saints’ Day concert, the Müpa Budapest audience ...
Otello, Opera House Budapest, 24 October
- 24 Oct 2024 6:30 PM
- classical
After retiring at age 58, Verdi would write no new operas for the next 15 years. It took a pivotal supper in Milan and the persistence of music publisher Giulio Ricordi to entice the Maestro to set about composing a new work, which he would only refer to as the “chocolate project”.
The Moor Otello is a soldier, a general and a loving husband who, despite all of his accomplishments, is not ...
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 ...
'Little Night of Horrors', Palace of Arts Budapest, 10 October
- 31 Oct 2022 8:00 PM
- contemporary
This Halloween concert is the result of a new initiative of the Budafok Dohnanyi Orchestra that they believe will prove to be a creative and joyful one for many people. Instead of attempting to evoke the commercialized American folk festival, it harkens back to the ancient Celtic tradition, lining up music that ranges from terrifying to cathartic to playful.
"Basically, we have a very strange, ...
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 ...
Falstaff, Opera House Budapest, 22 November
- 22 Nov 2024 6:30 PM
- classical
Comic opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles
Performance length: 3 hours 15 minutes, with 2 intermissions.
"There is only one way to end your career more splendidly than with Otello, and that is to end it with Falstaff!" So Verdi was told by his librettist and good friend, Arrigo Boito.
Although the elderly master had not tried his hand at ...
Requiem Opera House Budapest
- 3 Nov 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Staged oratorio in Latin, with Hungarian, English, and Latin subtitles
In recent years, even decades, it has become a common practice to completely or partially stage certain oratorical works. After Messiah and Matthäus-Passion, nothing could be more suitable to continue the practice than Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem, which is claimed by many, half-seriously, but certainly aptly, to be their ...
Messa per Rossini, National Concert Hall Budapest
- 1 Nov 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
When Rossini died in 1868, Verdi urged his compatriots to compose a requiem in memory of the departed master, with each composer taking on a single movement.
The work was completed, but the originally planned premiere fell through, and it was not until 1988 that it was first played, in Stuttgart, with Helmuth Rilling conducting.
At this All Saints’ Day concert, the Müpa Budapest audience ...
Otello, Opera House Budapest, 24 October
- 24 Oct 2024 6:30 PM
- classical
After retiring at age 58, Verdi would write no new operas for the next 15 years. It took a pivotal supper in Milan and the persistence of music publisher Giulio Ricordi to entice the Maestro to set about composing a new work, which he would only refer to as the “chocolate project”.
The Moor Otello is a soldier, a general and a loving husband who, despite all of his accomplishments, is not ...
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 ...
'Little Night of Horrors', Palace of Arts Budapest, 10 October
- 31 Oct 2022 8:00 PM
- contemporary
This Halloween concert is the result of a new initiative of the Budafok Dohnanyi Orchestra that they believe will prove to be a creative and joyful one for many people. Instead of attempting to evoke the commercialized American folk festival, it harkens back to the ancient Celtic tradition, lining up music that ranges from terrifying to cathartic to playful.
"Basically, we have a very strange, ...
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 ...