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BudapestMacbeth
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Verdi: Macbeth
Martin Rajna; Matthew Wild; Hungarian State Opera; Sebastian Hannak; Heide Kastler; Tamás Bányai; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
BudapestLa traviata
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Verdi: La traviata
János Kovács; Ferenc Anger; Hungarian State Opera; Levente Török; Gergely Zöldy Z; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
BudapestMadama Butterfly
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
István Dénes; Miklós-Gábor Kerényi; Hungarian State Opera; Kentaur; Ilona Vágvölgyi; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Gabriella Balga
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Stuck in purgatory: Tannhäuser at Budapest’s Wagner Days
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Individual performances impress, but conducting and production both prove too meandering in this year’s Wagner Days Tannhäuser.
Fine voices, staid production: Rigoletto at Hungarian State Opera
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Attila Mókus's dramatic baritone was scornful at one moment, tender, distressed, vengeful, or broken in mourning at others, vocal signposts in Rigoletto’s descent into the hell of his own making.
Sumptuous revival of Arabella at Hungarian State Opera
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Hungarian State Opera revives their mostly period production of Strauss' Arabella with star turns by sopranos Polina Pasztircsák and Laura Topolánszky.