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Kodály: Székelyfonó (The Spinning Room)
István Dénes; Michał Znaniecki; Hungarian State Opera; Luigi Scoglio; Magdalena Dabrowska; Bogumil Palewicz; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
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Znaniecki's directorial success in Budapest
Polish opera director Michał Znaniecki created a new version of Zoltán Kodály’s 1927 The Spinning Room, a short one-act which is basically a collection of 21 Hungarian folksongs that Kodály had selected from the Székely region.
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