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BudapestBest of Puccini

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Puccini
Gergely Madaras; Attila Toronykőy; Opéra d'État hongrois; István Dénes; Balázs Fügedi; Katalin Juhász; Tamás Pillinger

BudapestBest of Händel / Purcell: Dido & Aeneas

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Didon et Énée)
Augustin Szokos; Dóra Barta; Opéra d'État hongrois; Dániel Erdélyi; László Bartal; Ildikó Tihanyi; Andrea Kovács

BudapestOrff: Carmina Burana

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Orff: Carmina Burana
Orchestre de l'Opéra d'État hongrois; Tibor Bogányi; Tímea Papp; Mónika Szelei; Dániel Erdélyi; Erika Miklósa

BudapestPoldini: Love Adrift

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Poldini: Hochzeit im Fasching (Love Adrift)
Sándor Szabolcs; András Almási-Toth; Opéra d'État hongrois; Balázs Fügedi; Márk Kiss; Orchestre de l'Opéra d'État hongrois; Chœurs de l'Opéra d'État hongrois

BudapestVerdi: RigolettoVersion de concert

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Verdi: Rigoletto
Leonardo Sini; Opéra d'État hongrois; Orchestre de l'Opéra d'État hongrois; Chœurs de l'Opéra d'État hongrois; Alexandru Agache; Michele Kalmandy

BudapestWagner: ParsifalVersion de concert

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Wagner: Parsifal
Péter Halász; Opéra d'État hongrois; Orchestre de l'Opéra d'État hongrois; Chœurs de l'Opéra d'État hongrois; Michele Kalmandy; Károly Szemerédy
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Fine voices, staid production: Rigoletto at Hungarian State Opera

Zita Szemere (Gilda) and Attila Mókus (Rigoletto) © Valter Berecz | Hungarian State Opera
Attila Mókus's dramatic baritone was scornful at one moment, tender, distressed, vengeful, or broken in mourning at others, vocal signposts in Rigoletto’s descent into the hell of his own making.

Of whales and metaphors: Peter Eötvös' Valuska premieres in Budapest

Valuska © Attila Nagy | Hungarian State Opera
Peter Eötvös' 13th opera – the first in his native Hungarian – premieres at the Eiffel Art Studios in Budapest. 

Elektra in Budapest: all goes well... until the last minute

Szilvia Rálik (Elektra) and Atala Schöck (Klytaemnestra) © Attila Nagy | Hungarian State Opera
Balázs Kovalik’s interpretation of Elektra is revived in Budapest, impressing until the B-movie cliché finale. 

Csaba Polgár tries to make the best of La Fille du régiment

Zita Szemere is a wonderfully ebullient Marie, but the new production at the Hungarian State Opera merits a mixed report card.

Hungarian State Opera delightfully revamps L’incoronazione di Poppea

Monteverdi’s last opera, recomposed by Máté Bella for a modern orchestra and a jazz combo, is an over-the-top, glitzy romp with plenty of casual sex and even more casual violence.

Rautavaara's The Mine in Budapest

Opening the weekend that marked the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, The Mine (Bánya), the first of Rautavaara's nine operas, dramatizes events from those turbulent times.