Boom or bust: the Hungarian State Opera's new Bánk Bán

Von Hugo Shirley, 11 September 2017

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“Levente Molnár... sings magnificently as the noble Bánk”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Erkel Színház (Erkel Theatre), Budapest, am 9 September 2017

Erkel, Bánk bán

Hungarian State Opera

Balázs Kocsár, Musikalische Leitung

Attila Vidnyánszky, Regie

Oleksandr Bilozub, Bühnenbild

Viktória Nagy, Kostüme

Marcell Bakonyi, Endre II

András Káldi Kiss, Endre II

Ildikó Komlósi, Gertrud

Judit Németh, Gertrud

Péter Balczó, Otto

Istvan Horvath, Otto

Levente Molnár, Bánk bán

Csaba Szegedi, Bánk bán

Zita Szemere, Melinda

Orsolya Hajnalka Rőser, Melinda

Zsolt Haja, Patúr-Petur bán

Zoltán Kelemen, Patúr-Petur bán

Kolos Kováts, Tiborc

István Rácz, Tiborc

Lajos Geiger, Biberach

Antal Cseh, Biberach

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Hugo Shirley

Hugo Shirley is a Berlin-based writer and musicologist. He has written widely as a critic in the UK, including for The Spectator, the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph, and has held editorial posts at both Opera and Gramophone. He was editor of 30-Second Opera (Ivy Press, 2015) and has a PhD in musicology from King's College London, where his thesis focused on Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Die Frau ohne Schatten.