Peace and War: a Hungarian victory for Bieito’s bold production

War and Peace

Von Elodie Olson-Coons, 29 Januar 2023

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“joy has been twisted into ridicule, fun into grotesquerie”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Hungarian State Opera: Auditorium, Budapest, am 28 Januar 2023

Prokofjew, War and Peace

Hungarian State Opera

Alan Buribayev, Musikalische Leitung

Calixto Bieito, Regie

Rebecca Ringst, Bühnenbild

Ingo Krügler, Kostüme

Michael Bauer, Licht

Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

Hungarian State Opera Chorus

Csaba Szegedi, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

Andrea Brassói-Jőrös, Natasha Rostova

Szabolcs Brickner, Count Pierre Bezukhov

Péter Fried, Field-Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov

Zsolt Haja, Napoleon Bonaparte

István Kovács, Count Ilya Rostov

Erika Gál, Hélène Bezukhova

Melinda Heiter, Sonya

Zoltán Nyári, Anatole Kuragin

Krisztián Cser, Dolokhov, Jacquot

András Kiss, Colonel Vasska Denisov

Anna Csenge Fürjes, Princess Marya Bolkonskaya

Dalma Süle, Dunyasha, Madame Peronskaya

Andrea Szántó, Maria Dmitrievna Akhrosimova, Mavra Kusminitchna

Lusine Sahakyan, Matriosha

Gergely Ujvári, French Abbé, Monsieur de Beausset

Benjámin Beeri, Fyodor, Gérard

Barna Bartos, Ivanov

Péter Balczó, Platon Karataev

Ferenc Cserhalmi, Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky, General Belliard

Boldizsár Zajkás, Marshal Berthier, Gavrila, Marshal Davout

Máté Fülep, Matveyev, Tikhon Scherbatsky

Bence Pataki, Metivier

Ambrogio Maestri gibt Budapester Falstaff Auftrieb

David Karlin, 22nd May

Der große Mann im Fettanzug dominiert die Show und gibt dem Falstaff der Ungarischen Staatsoper Elan und Lebensfreude.

****1

Glänzende Turandot an der Ungarischen Staatsoper

Jenny Camilleri, 30th January

Aufregend dirigiert und überwiegend gut gesungen sollte diese üppige aber schnörkellose Turandot sowohl Traditionalisten und abenteuerlustige Operngänger erfreuen.

***11

All that glitters is not gold in Budapest's new Lohengrin

Orsolya Gyárfás, 16th November

Klára Kolonits's radiant Elsa proves the main attraction in the Hungarian State Opera's visually appealing but conceptually lacking new Lohengrin.

**111

A thrilling, opulent La Bayadère at Hungarian National Ballet

Gianmarco Segato, 14th June

Hungarian National Ballet's La Bayadère revitalizes tradition with a new reconstruction of its forgotten final act.

*****

Visually splendid, dramatically parched La Gioconda in Budapest

Gianmarco Segato, 11th June

Hungarian State Opera's cut-down, dramatically inert Gioconda fails to ignite the stage in Budapest, despite a solid musical foundation.

***11

Stumbling towards the chopping block: Maria Stuarda in Budapest

Orsolya Gyárfás, 14th May

Martin Rajna's energetic conducting and Gabriella Balga's glorious Elisabetta are the bright spots in this flashy but empty house premiere of Donizetti's classic.

**111

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Elodie Olson-Coons

Originaire de Lorraine, Elodie Olson-Coons a fait ses études littéraires à Cambridge. Mezzo-soprano et pianiste, elle est particulièrement intéressée par la musique contemporaine et vocale.

Peace and War: a Hungarian victory for Calixto Bieito’s bold production