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

Par Hugo Shirley, 11 septembre 2017

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

Critique faite à Erkel Színház (Erkel Theatre), Budapest, le 9 septembre 2017

Erkel, Bánk bán

Opéra d'État hongrois

Balázs Kocsár, Direction

Attila Vidnyánszky, Mise en scène

Oleksandr Bilozub, Décors

Viktória Nagy, Costumes

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

Budapest accueille ses Enfants terribles

Suzanne Lay-Canessa, 13th November

Jean Cocteau rencontre Philip Glass à l'Opéra d'État hongrois, dans le cadre neuf de l'Eiffel Art Studios, et cette production des Enfants terribles se déroule à un tempo infernal !

****1

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

Hungarian National Ballet: a tremendously witty Merry Widow

Deborah Weiss, 12th February

Hungarian National Ballet strike a delightful balance between lighthearted comedy and technical assurance in Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow.

****1

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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.