HUNGARIAN STATE OPERA, OPERA HOUSE

Act I The Emperor of the South-East Islands is married to the daughter of a fairy that he captured while out hunting; once he injured ...

Wojciech Kilar is arguably one of Poland’s finest composers and one of Music Director Krzysztof Urbanski’s favorites. As a popular film composer, Kilar’s music has ...

Before leaving on a journey, Ben is paying a visit to Lucy, the object of his affection, and he's secretly got a big plan in ...

Act I - The Duel Scene 1 Spain is a country divided by civil war. The commander of the royalist troops, Count di Luna is ...

Act I Scene 1 A festive ball is taking place at the court of Mantua. The Duke happily tells the courtier Borsa about his amorous ...

Prologue: In the village of Nagyabony, the regulars gather at the inn to hear the aged veteran János Háry tell his stories. The judge, the ...

How far do we let other people into our minds, our soul, and our past? And what happens if someone pushes their way into our ...

Act I Siegfried’s birthday party in the castle garden To celebrate Siegfried’s eighteenth birthday, Alexander and the courtiers and neighbours have organized a surprise party ...

Elektra, Chrysothemis, Klytämnestra – drei Frauen gefangen im Familienfluch. Elektras einziges Ziel ist die Rache an ihrer Mutter Klytämnestra, die zusammen mit Ägisth den Vater ...

Act I – Le Bailli's house On a summer day in July the widower Le Bailli – the bailiff – is practising a Christmas carol ...

Background The young Spanish nobleman Belmonte has suffered having his betrothed, Konstanze, her English maid, Blonde, and his servant, Pedrillo, all kidnapped by pirates and ...

Act I A forest near Monsalvat, the castle of the Holy Grail. Gurnemanz, a knight, and several young pages are saying their morning prayers. Suddenly ...

The Saint Matthew Passion is Bach's greatest work, one which constitutes an unsurpassable pinnacle not only of Protestant church music, but in the universal history ...

Act I Scene 1 – The courtyard of an inn near Paris Various gentlemen and actresses and ladies of the demimonde can be seen in ...

Act I A terrible gale rages around the Venetian-ruled island of Cyprus, whose people are awaiting their governor, the Moor Otello, in the port. The ...

“Abandoned by the traitor Gernando, Costanza lived and died here alone, on this deserted shore. Lost traveller! Unless you be a tiger, avenge me or ...

Lilla Pártay's first full-length creative work is a dance drama of international calibre. With extraordinary meticulousness, the choreographer has employed the steps of both classical ...

Act I Scene 1 As promenaders stroll through the spring sunshine of the Summer Garden in St. Petersburg, children accompanied by nurses, governesses and servants ...

Scene 1 France, 1789. In the home of the countess of Coigny, Carlo Gérard and the other servants are preparing for the evening festivities. When ...

Act I Scene 1: The garden of Madame Larina’s house The inhabitants of the house are preparing for Tatyana’s birthday. Olga is dancing with her ...

Act I Rodolfo and Marcello are freezing in their cold attic-room. Despite the poet throwing the manuscript of his play in the fire, the burning ...

Act I By the chapel, on the street It is Christmas Eve, and as snow flurries fall the Stahlbaum family heads home from the chapel ...

Gounod’s French grand opera has been an indispensable element of any self-respecting opera company’s repertoire, and to this day remains among the most frequently performed ...

Act I Exhausted from fleeing his pursuers through a storm, Siegmund bursts into the door of a strange house and collapses. Sieglinde finds him slumped ...

Uberto, the master of the house, is waiting for his morning cocoa, but his maidservant Serapina just won't come... If a man doesn't get his ...

One of the Opera's loveliest traditions is its musical observation of the All Saints/Day of the Dead holiday period with the funeral mass that has ...

Set in the Roman Empire around 74 AD, Spartacus was László Seregi's first true full-length ballet, which at one stroke became a milestone in Hungarian ...

Crazy things are afoot at the mental institute. Two people have come to see Darlemont, the director: one is Venanzio, who has brought his ward, ...

Neapolitan chemist Don Annibale is being wed to the lovely Serafina, but he needs to hurry through the nuptials, since he has to wake up ...

British music is often faulted for having failed to produce a significant composer for three hundred years after Purcell. If ever a later composer felt ...

After retiring at age 58, Verdi would write no new operas for the next 16 years. It took a pivotal supper in Milan and the ...

Verdi’s clever riposte to Rossini’s dig that he couldn’t write comedy. Aging gentleman’s midlife crisis complete with romance, escapes in laundry hampers, a dunking in ...

The daughter of the Emperor of the Spirit Realm turned from a gazelle into a beautiful girl. Hunter and prey fell in love with each ...

At a Chicago exhibition in 1947, Igor Stravinsky stopped before eight pictures by 18th century British painter William Hogarth, which tell the story of a ...

After composing Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky reached for Pushkin a second time, once again choosing a complex psychological drama of remarkable tension that featured a protagonist ...

Ein Bühnenweihfestspiel – that is, “a Festival Play for the Consecration of the Stage”. Wagner himself invented this label for his final opera, Parsifal, a ...

“As time passes, Bach’s music grows ever more weighty and significant,” said Pilinszky, with reference to the St John Passion.“This Baroque musician has become the ...

“I've captured a terrific storm of elements and of hearts which gradually calms to Brünnhilde's magic sleep,” Wagner on the score of Die Walküre, in ...

Bánk bán (The Viceroy Bánk) is the most important piece both in Hungarian drama literature and opera history. A story about the oppression of the ...

Gounod’s French grand opera has been an indispensable element of any self-respecting opera company’s repertoire, and to this day remains among the most frequently performed ...

A certain gentleman now referred to as Doctor Bat causes choas at Prince Orlovsky's masked ball. Errant husbands are sentenced to imprisonment, wives itch to ...

Some operas are legendary. None more so than Puccini's work telling the tale of young bohemians in Paris, in which one of the most beautiful ...

The riddles are three, but death is one... Ice that sets you aflame, but grows colder from the fire. White and dark. If she sets ...

The operas of the “Red Priest” (which number close to 50) were practically unknown until the last quarter of the 20th century. Since the start ...

The tale of Cio-Cio san and Pinkerton stands out as one of the finest romantic tragedies ever written. Convinced that her 'temporary marriage' is not ...

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 ...

It is possible the young poet Andrea Chénier by his honest dedication to freedom and humanity, to suspiciously in any political system: at a party ...

Operas in one-one act...

The first part of Wagner's tetralogy is a prologue depicting the 'original sin' committed when the dwarf Alberich renounces love to be able to forge ...

Goethe dashed out The Sorrows of Young Werther in all of six weeks. The novel, which relates, through a series of letters, the hopeless love ...

Così fan tutte. “All women are like this.” That is, fickle, as Don Alfonso says in Mozart and Da Ponte’s third joint opera. The grooms ...

Contemporary composer Aribert Reimann's reworking of the tale of King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare's darkest tragedy, is an opera of extraordinary tension, provocative to the end ...