Il mondo della luna (The World on the Moon) at Hungarian State Opera, Opera House

A science-fiction comedy from 1777, from the imagination of Carlo Goldoni with music written by Joseph Haydn for the occasion of the wedding of Miklós Eszterházy's younger son.

The father of the symphony and string quartet composed a number of operas during his 24-year sojourn at the Eszterházy castle. He based one of the most interesting of these on a popular comedy by Goldoni which four other composers had already composed operas for. A charlatan astrologer, Ecclitico, and the young Ernesto have fallen in love with the two daughters of the wealthy Buonafede, but their father will not give his blessing to the union. A marvellous journey to the moon, however, puts everything in a different light...

We are premiering Attila Toronyk?y's new production of this scintillating comic opera at the Baroque Theatre of the Royal Palace of Gödöll?.