Easter with Mascagni (Messa di Gloria; Cavalleria rusticana)

Pietro Mascagni
Easter with Mascagni (Messa di Gloria; Cavalleria rusticana)
Concert performances with Hungarian and English surtitles

Messa di Gloria

Those who have seen Mascagni’s famous one-act Cavalleria rusticana will never forget the Easter Hymn. The tragic story taking pace at Easter is a perfect match for Messa di Gloria, which exudes the euphoria of resurrection, but which is above all a Southern Italian mass of innocent faith. It is also of no little relevance that Mascagni himself rehearsed and conducted his opera in Budapest, and as rumour has it, its success here ignited it like a rocket on its way to becoming a worldwide sensation

Conductor: János Kovács
Tenor: Boldizsár László
Baritone: Zoltán Kelemen

Credits
Chorus director: Gábor Csiki
Featurin: Hungarian State Opera Chorus


Cavalleria rusticana
Concert performance in Italian, with Hungarian and English surtitles

The world literally went crazy for this one-act by Pietro Mascagni when he burst onto the opera scene with his daring work that opened new boundaries for the genre, and which hundreds of others would attempt to imitate. Such was its success that he would never equal it in any of his later works. In one of the chief examples of verismo, Mascagni's protagonists are everyday people who fall victim to their own, unbridled passions.
Captivating and sensual music with gripping dramatic tension. Love, jealousy – and revenge.

Conductor: János Kovács
Turiddu: Boldizsár László
Santuzza: Erika Gál
Lucia: Éva Balatoni
Alfio: Zoltán Kelemen
Lola: Zsófia Kálnay

Credits
Libretto after the play of the same name by Giovanni Verga Guido Menasci / Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Hungarian surtitles: Judit Kenesey
Head of the Children's Chorus: Nikolett Hajzer
Chorus director: Gábor Csiki
Featuring: Hungarian State Opera Chorus