HUNGARIAN STATE OPERA, ERKEL THEATRE

Scene 1 Six dwarfs are pulling a cart. After a long search, they finally find their seventh companion, Dopey. On the cart stands a package ...

The Moon shines through the room window. Its light is disquieting to the Mother whose Son is about to get married. Her husband and her ...

Act I The melancholy goblin Leander has been holding King Baldemar the Second as his prisoner for the last 17 years and nine months as ...

What happens when a singing circle operating according to classical middle-class values is forced to accept a talented but depraved and penniless musician? Primeval, genuine ...

Act I A hall in Solomon's palace Sulamith, the daughter of the High Priest, is anxiously awaiting the return of her fiancé, Assad, whom King ...

Act I King Endre II, the monarch of the country, is fighting abroad while Gertrúd, his queen, who is of Meranian birth, plays hostess to ...

At age 27, Verdi resolved to never write opera again. He was at a low point in his life, both professionally and personally: His comic ...

“Easter Showdown Motivated By Jealousy!” “Clown Commits Murder On Stage!” These are two headlines that might have graced Edoardo Sonzogno’s front pages, and it is ...

Act I The death of Cillei. Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) Castle, 1456. Mátyás Hunyadi assembles with his family's supporters in the legendary castle of the Hunyadis, where ...

Il tabarro "Everyone has a cloak that sometimes hides joy, and sometimes pain..." Along the banks of the Seine the barge belonging to the merchant ...

Act I Despite his advanced age, Don Pasquale is planning to get married. The marriage he's planing, however, is not motivated by love, but by ...

Act I On a square in Seville, a troop of dragoons are keeping watch next to the tobacco factory, where they pass the time by ...

Act I On a hill overlooking Nagasaki harbour, U. S. Navy Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton inspects a Japanese house with Goro, a sharp local marriage ...

Act I The Ethiopian princess Aida is being held captive in Egypt, although no one knows of her royal origins. Also kept secret is the ...

His Majesty King Pomade has a big problem: he doesn't have a single thing to wear for his name day celebration, because he's already worn ...

Act I At London's Falcon Tavern, life is noisy: the rowdy regulars, soldiers, (cheating) card-players, students and simple folk are carousing away the time when ...

Friedrich, the governor of Sicily, has banned frivolous entertainment of all sorts – including love. Claudio violates the statutes, and is therefore condemned to death. ...

Prologue: The Queen of the Night has lost all of her power. Following her husband's death, all of the land and property went to her ...

Although Mozart's opera is a fairy tale for grown-ups, its wondrous elements - the trial of Tamino and Pamina, the comic antics of Papageno, and ...

For more than two centuries, what is possibly Mozart's most enigmatic work has both enchanted and perplexed audiences. This masterpiece relating the tragi-comic adventures of ...

Act I Angelotti, the former Consul of the Republic of Rome, has escaped from the state prison at the Castle St. Angelo and sought refuge ...

Act I In the unheated rented garret, the painter Marcello is working on one of his pictures with icy fingers, while the poet Rodolfo, eyeing ...

The lecherous noblemen of the Mantuan court must be entertained, and a deformed jester spares no one his jeers to ensure that they are. And ...

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 ...

The 2015 Budapest Premiere of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story promises to be an exciting undertaking. The familiar hits from the now classic musical, which ...

"The Magic Flute is like a mirror: gazing into it, we see ourselves and find whatever it is we are looking for." (János Leibner) The ...

“Easter Showdown Motivated By Jealousy!” “Clown Commits Murder On Stage!” These are two headlines that might have graced Edoardo Sonzogno’s front pages, and it is ...

What makes the Freischütz, or marksman, into a magical sharpshooter? The fact that he shoots magic bullets. Six out of seven hit their mark, but ...

Fairy Tale Opera Premiere at the Erkel Theatre!The tale of Leander the goblin and Princess Linseed, brimming with magic and a seemingly unbreakable curse, not ...

In a good tragedy, everyone is right.” Verdi takes this maxim one step further: with a predilection for heaping dramatic conflicts until they lie thick ...

The vulnerable protagonists of Aida face an agonising moral dilemma: to what should they be loyal? To their homelands? To their families? Or to their ...

It was in 1844, at the crest of the reform era, that Ferenc Erkel composed his patriotic opera focussing on one of the most turbulent ...

Standing at the centre of this opera relating, with scintillating wit, the chaotic events of the "day of madness" and a wedding nearly gone up ...

A story can be told in different ways and in different settings. It is precisely for this reason that we decided to retainKálmán Nádasdy's famous ...

What happens when a singing circle operating according to classical middle-class values is forced to accept a talented but depraved and penniless musician? Primeval, genuine ...

One of the best known farces in opera literature, Don Pasquale puts even the funniest films to shame with its situational comedy, colourful characters and ...

Although Mozart's opera is a fairy tale for grown-ups, its wondrous elements - the trial of Tamino and Pamina, the comic antics of Papageno, and ...

For more than two centuries, what is possibly Mozart's most enigmatic work has both enchanted and perplexed audiences. This masterpiece relating the tragi-comic adventures of ...

Father, the King of Spain, marries son’s sweetheart for political reasons. Meanwhile, TitleCharacter aims to become Governor of Flanders, but daddy has other ideas. Son ...

'I, the shepherd king, graze my flock. Time means nothing to me, for in my heart it's summer: a hot summer of my love burns ...

Act I Angelotti, the former Consul of the Republic of Rome, has escaped from the state prison at the Castle St. Angelo and sought refuge ...

According to the ancient scriptures, the Queen of Sheba was obsessed with finding Wisdom, and so she journeyed to meet Solomon, who was known to ...

The work, although a Latin Requiem Mass, was inspired by a tragic article Andrew read in the New York Times about a Cambodian boy who ...

Große komische Oper – these words make for unfamiliar reading where Wagnerian genre descriptions are concerned. Aside from 1868's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the great ...

“Her eyes were obliquely set, but large and full; her lips rather thick, but well cut, and permitted the teeth – white as blanched almonds ...