A worthy rarity: Erkel’s Bánk bán has its belated American première

By Edward Sava-Segal, 02 November 2018

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: David H Koch Theater, New York City on 30 October 2018

Erkel, Bánk bán

Hungarian State Opera

Balázs Kocsár, Conductor

Attila Vidnyánszky, Director

Oleksandr Bilozub, Set Designer

Viktória Nagy, Costume Designer

Marcell Bakonyi, Endre II

Judit Németh, Gertrud

Istvan Horvath, Otto

Levente Molnár, Bánk bán

Zita Szemere, Melinda

Zsolt Haja, Patúr-Petur bán

István Rácz, Tiborc

Antal Cseh, Biberach

Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

Hungarian State Opera Chorus

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.