Spring rolls

Even though it’s cold outside, the Opera is still providing cheerful winter goodies to consume. This dessert consists of three courses. Mozart’s one-act theatre parody, Der Schauspieldirektor, shows how the life of a theatre director is certainly not an easy one when several singers are vying for the prima donna spot. The second piece, about the wives of King Henry VIII, a monarch who was liberal in dispensing both kisses and death, is a production that employs text by Shakespeare and music by the king himself, and not without a bit of black humour, either. And finally: The Telephone. A boy wants to confess his love to a girl, except the girl is next to the telephone, and any time it rings, she has to pick it up. Through a charming opera from the 1970s, the audience will get to see a problem that has since grown to serious proportions.

The Wives of Henry VIII

General cast

Henry VIII

 

Kristóf Widder / Pallag Márton

 

Henry's wives

 

Eszter Zavaros

 

Coutrier

 

Balázs Csémy

Credits

Librettist

 

Balázs Csémy / Kristóf Widder

 

Director

 

Kristóf Widder

 

Dramaturg

 

Molnár Szabolcs

 

Musical composition

 

Eszter Zavaros / Molnár Szabolcs / Kristóf Widder / Balázs Csémy

 

Featuring on piano

 

Jászberényi Lilian

Premiere

 

May 27, 2016

The Telephone

General cast

Conductor

 

Sámuel Tóth

 

Lucy

 

Orsolya Sáfár

 

Ben

 

Attila Erdős

 

The telephone

 

Levente Bajári

Credits

Librettist

 

Gian Carlo Menotti

 

Translator

 

Klára Huszár

 

Director

 

András Almási-Tóth

 

Set designer

 

One Nikon

 

Costume designer

 

Krisztina Lisztopád

 

Choreographer

 

Klári Pataky

Premiere

 

Sept. 21, 2013

Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)

General cast

Conductor

 

Sámuel Tóth

 

Hans Buff, an impresario

 

Zoltán Bátki Fazekas

 

Brigitte Herz, his wife

 

Bernáth Éva

 

Selim Hekeri, a plastics mogul

 

Köles Ferenc

 

Julia Silberklang, an amateur primadonna

 

Ayane Imai

 

Johann Vogelsang, a tenor

 

Tibor Szappanos

Credits

Composer

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

Prose after the libretto of Johann Gottlieb Stephanie by

 

Gergely Litkai

 

Hungarian lyrics

 

Miklós Szabó

 

Director

 

Máté Szabó

 

Set designer

 

Róbert Menczel

 

Costume designer

 

Ildikó Tihanyi