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BudapestLe nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Gábor Káli; Judit Galgóczy; Hungarian State Opera; Attila Csikós; Nelly Vágó; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Hungarian State Opera Chorus
BudapestVerdi: Requiem
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Gergely Kesselyák; Zsuzsanna Ádám; Atala Schöck; István Kovácsházi; Krisztián Cser
BudapestMozart: Die Zauberflöte
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Péter Halász; Miklós Szinetár; Hungarian State Opera; Dárius Teremi; Péter Horgas; Rita Velich; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
BudapestPuccini: La bohème
Puccini: La bohème
Martin Rajna; Kálmán Nádasdy; Sámuel Csaba Tóth; Gusztáv Oláh; Gergely Boncsér; Andrei Danilov
BudapestNew Year's at the Opera House
Beethoven, Haydn
Gábor Hontvári; Lilla Horti; Atala Schöck; István Kovácsházi; Krisztián Cser
BudapestBartók: Bluebeard’s CastleConcert performance
Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Zsolt Hamar; Hungarian State Opera; Levente Török; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; András Palerdi; Christopher Maltman
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Unseduced: Don Giovanni opens the Budapest Festival Orchestra season
Iván Fischer's reworking of his 2017 production of Don Giovanni is musically capable, but dramatically unconvincing.
Bluebeard at the Proms with Iván Fischer and the BFO
The evening starts with life-affirming Beethoven – and then, the Budapest Festival Orchestra demonstrate just how good native Hungarians can be in Bartók’s chiller.
Visually splendid, dramatically parched La Gioconda in Budapest
Hungarian State Opera's cut-down, dramatically inert Gioconda fails to ignite the stage in Budapest, despite a solid musical foundation.
Of whales and metaphors: Peter Eötvös' Valuska premieres in Budapest
Peter Eötvös' 13th opera – the first in his native Hungarian – premieres at the Eiffel Art Studios in Budapest.
Peace and War: a Hungarian victory for Bieito’s bold production
Calixto Bieito takes on Prokofiev's Tolstoy epic – and wins in the opera's Hungarian premiere.
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.