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Kacsóh: John the Valiant

Eiffel Art Studios: Bánffy StageÉszaki Műhely Kőbánya, Budapest, Central Hungary, Hongrie
Dates/horaires selon le fuseau horaire de Budapest
samedi 13 mars 202717:00
dimanche 14 mars 202711:00
samedi 20 mars 202711:00
Artistes
Opéra d'État hongrois
Dániel ErdélyiDirection
Máté SzabóMise en scène
Balázs HoresnyiDécors
Anni FüzérCostumes
Orchestre de l'Opéra d'État hongrois
Chœurs de l'Opéra d'État hongrois
Enikő PerczelDramaturgie
Bertalan VáriChorégraphie
Chœurs d'enfants de l'Opéra d'État hongrois
Gergely BoncsérTénorJános the Hussar
Boglárka BrindásSopranoIluska
Zsolt HajaBarytonBagó
András PalerdiBasseThe French King
Zsuzsanna KapiSopranoThe French Princess
Bernadett WiedemannMezzo-sopranoThe French Princess
Norbert AntóniBasseSergeant
Géza GáborBasseThe field guard of the village
Balázs CsémyComédienBartolo

“Such a wonderful tale. Pongrác Kacsóh followed in the tracks of the poet without wiping off the butterfly wing scale with rough hands; his fantastic, gorgeous music is distinctly different from any operetta we have heard before with its Hungarian motives and genuine folk style”, reports on the 1904 premier of John the Valiant the newspaper called Újság. It might sound incredible, but the title role was played by the great prima donna Sári Fedák. “When I had sung ‘A single rose says it better’, the fate of the work was sealed. Everyone was crying in the audience, and I cried with them.” There was hardly a season since its opera house premier in 1931 when it was not included in the programme. With John the Valiant, the OPERA honoured the 200th anniversary of Sándor Petőfi’s birth in 2023.


Kacsóh: John the Valiant