Making a guest appearance at the Erkel Theatre during this Shakespeare season will be a veritable treat: Wolf-Ferrari's Sly. Although the composer originally gained fame for his successful comic operas, Sly is a different kind of story: after starting as a comedy, it transforms into a sorrowful tragedy based on the induction scenes in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; the music, however, bears the hallmarks of his earlier verismo operas, with strong parallels to Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann as well.
Cast and Creative team for Sly at Hungarian State Opera, Erkel Theatre