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BudapestMadama Butterfly
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
István Dénes; Miklós-Gábor Kerényi; Hungarian State Opera; Kentaur; Ilona Vágvölgyi; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Hungarian State Opera Chorus
BudapestPuccini: ToscaKonzertante Aufführung
Puccini: Tosca
Cornelius Meister; István Dénes; Gergely Kesselyák; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Hungarian State Opera Chorus
BudapestBizet: Carmen
Bizet: Carmen
Gábor Hontvári; Calixto Bieito; Hungarian State Opera; Flores Tarres Ildefonso; Mercè Paloma; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Hungarian State Opera Chorus
BudapestMozart: Die Zauberflöte
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Péter Halász; Miklós Szinetár; Hungarian State Opera; Dárius Teremi; Péter Horgas; Rita Velich; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
BudapestPuccini: La bohème
Puccini: La bohème
Martin Rajna; Kálmán Nádasdy; Sámuel Csaba Tóth; Gusztáv Oláh; Gergely Boncsér; Andrei Danilov
BudapestDebussy: L'enfant prodigue & La damoiselle élue / Liszt: SardanapaloNeuinszenierung
Debussy, Liszt
János Kovács; Hungarian State Opera; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Hungarian State Opera Chorus; Eszter Sümegi; Boldizsár László
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The Queen of Sheba a rare Hungarian delight in New York
The Hungarian State Opera's first New York tour featured an opera of forbidden love set in the Biblical Times by Karl Goldmark, and was a rare treat for the New York audience.
Les Huguenots at Hungarian State Opera
Oliver von Dohnányi leads a great orchestral performance to drive Meyerbeer's grand historical epic, lit up by sparkling coloratura from Klára Kolonits.
Hungarian State Opera's slow-motion The Queen of Sheba
The score of Goldmark's opera is filled with lovely orchestral surprises, in addition to stunning arias, but is often filled with an abundance of slow tempos.
Rautavaara's The Mine in Budapest
Opening the weekend that marked the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, The Mine (A Bánya), the first of Rautavaara's nine operas, dramatizes events from those turbulent times.