Eiffel Art Studios: Bánffy StageÉszaki Műhely
Kőbánya, Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary
Dates/times in Budapest time zone
| Saturday 13 February 2027 | 19:00 |
| Saturday 20 February 2027 | 11:00 |
| Saturday 27 February 2027 | 19:00 |
Programme
| Poldini, Ede (1869-1957) | Hochzeit im Fasching (Love Adrift) | Libretto by Ernst Vajda |
Performers
| Hungarian State Opera | ||
| Sándor Szabolcs | Conductor | |
| András Almási-Toth | Director | |
| Balázs Fügedi | Set Designer | |
| Márk Kiss | Costume Designer | |
| Hungarian State Opera Orchestra | ||
| Hungarian State Opera Chorus | ||
| Dávid Dani | Baritone | Andris |
| Balázs Papp | Tenor | Forfeit collector |
| Gábor Csiki | Choirmaster / chorus director | |
| Csaba Szegedi | Baritone | Peter |
| Adrienn Miksch | Soprano | The honourable lady |
| Zsuzsanna Kapi | Soprano | Zsuzsika |
| Barna Bartos | Tenor | Kálmán |
| Andrea Meláth | Mezzo-soprano | Countess |
| Attila Dobák | Baritone | Zoltán |
| Mária Farkasréti | Soprano | Mrs. Bükky |
| Rita Rácz | Soprano | Stanci |
Dozens of people are placed in quarantine due to the harsh weather. Passions run high: those who should not fall in love do so, while those who ought to form a couple fall out of love. In confinement, many things are revealed about one another, and instead of a cancelled carnival wedding, a days-long quarantine party begins. Ede Poldini’s comic opera, premiered in 1924, returned to the OPERA repertoire in 2022 after a fifty-year hiatus. The recent pandemic had cast the piece in entirely new colours: a series of moments and states of mind familiar to all of us unfold, allowing us to laugh at ourselves and at how we spent that period locked within four walls.
