A Streetcar Named Desire premieres in Budapest

By Katja Vaghi, 19 June 2017

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“not to be missed”

Reviewed at Erkel Színház (Erkel Theatre), Budapest on 17 June 2017

A Streetcar Named Desire (Marianna Venekei)

Hungarian National Ballet

Robert Menczel, Set Designer

Bianca Imelda Jeremias, Costume Designer

Csontos Balazs, Lighting Designer

Hungarian State Opera

Tradition reconsidered in Bartók Dancetriptych in Budapest

Gianmarco Segato, 3rd February

Three iconic Bartók dance scores are newly-interpreted at the Hungarian National Ballet.

****1

Sympathy for the Devil in revival of Mefistofele in Budapest

George Jahn, 10th April

Balázs Kovalik’s opulent staging of Boito's Faustian opera threatens to overshadow the singers, but it makes for an exciting spectacle.

****1

MacMillan's Manon* in Budapest

Graham Watts, 9th April

A memorable Manon in Budapest

*****

Stairway to heaven: thrilling Mefistofele in Budapest

Mark Pullinger, 28th May

Rarely performed, Boito’s Mefistofele is an audacious, spectacular opera, needing an audacious, spectacular staging to do it justice. That’s exactly what it gets in Balázs Kovalik’s production for Hungarian State Opera.

*****

Devilishly good fun: Faust in Budapest

Mark Pullinger, 26th May

The devil may not get all the best tunes in Gounod’s Faust, but Gábor Bretz certainly stole the show in this new production at Hungarian State Opera.

***11

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

George Jahn, 29th January

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

***11

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Katja Vaghi

With a background in Dance Studies, Literature and Linguistics (MA English Studies from Zurich University and PhD in dance philosophy from the University of Roehampton in London) and a formation as a modern dancer (Ballet Arts, NYC), Katja is a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance researcher and dramaturge currently living in Berlin.

A brilliant end to the season: Marianna Venekei’s A Streetcar Named Desire premieres in Budapest