Hungarian State Opera: AuditoriumAndrássy út 22, Budapest, Central Hungary, 1061, Hungary
Dates/times in Budapest time zone
| Sunday 21 December 2025 | 19:00 |
| Monday 22 December 2025 | 19:00 |
Programme
| Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759) | Messiah (arr. Mozart) |
Performers
| Kálmán Strausz | Conductor |
| Gabriella Balga | Mezzo-soprano |
| Atala Schöck | Mezzo-soprano |
| Tibor Szappanos | Tenor |
| István Kovács | Bass |
| Hungarian State Opera Orchestra | |
| Hungarian State Opera Chorus |
Proclaiming (notably with the popular “Hallelujah” chorus) the coming and resurrection of the Saviour, Messiah remains to this day one of the most popular of Handel’s works. A little under half a century after its 1742 world premiere in Dublin, it was performed for the first time in the revised and rescored German-language version Der Messias created by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The “German Messiah” thus is the fruit of an extraordinary “collaboration” between two geniuses: the scintillating brilliance of Händel as interpreted by Mozart.
