Performer: Kornélia Bakos

Mit einer musikalisch gradiosen Aufführung der Walküre und prägnant-wirkungsvollen Projektionen wurde in Budapest der Ring-Zyklus von Adam Fischer fortgesetzt.

Lead by Pál Németh, the Savaria Baroque Orchestra and the Kodály Choir Debrecen are the stars of this performance of Handel's oratorio.

This double cast, nine-day revival of Vadim Milkov's staging of Pique Dame offers a relatively straight reading of Tchaikovsky's opera about the obsessive Pushkin-based character Herman. Embracing the opera's choral and dance passages, spectacle and pageantry are paramount; the drama's surreal and more nuanced dimensions could have been better profiled.

Although with a promising concept, the Hungarian State Opera’s new production ultimately proved underdirected.