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A fun tour around the Eiffel Art Studios
Please note that this programme is in in Hungarian and we don not provide any translations.

Gustav Mahler
SYMPHONY NO. 8
Concert performance in Latin and German with Hungarian, English, and original-language subtitles

Marius Petipa – Albert Mirzoyan / Ludwig Minkus
LA BAYADÈRE
Classical ballet in three acts

Wayne Eagling – Tamás Solymosi / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
THE NUTCRACKER
Fairy-tale ballet in two acts

Rudi van Dantzig – Toer van Schayk / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SWAN LAKE
Classical ballet in three acts

János Novák, a puppeteer and musician who is probably known to most people from performances at the Kolibri Theatre and a 2016 chamber performance of Disruption in the Seraglio (based on Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail) at the Opera House, stages Benjamin Britten The Little Sweep written for young audiences and performers.

Marianna Venekei / Tennessee Williams / László Dés
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Dance-drama in two acts
Ballet version of the play of the same title by Tennessee Williams

Classical Singspiel

Language Hungarian, German
Surtitle Hungarian, English, German

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 love?

Neoclassical ballet

Running time 2 hours 30 minutes including one interval

For the 13th time, the performance of the famous Symphony No. 9 will dominate the OPERA’s New Year celebrations. Every year, a different brilliant composer is selected to direct the masterpiece, and there are no other ensembles in Hungary than the OPERA Orchestra and Chorus who are better acquainted with this work perfect to underscore the hope of a new year.

Public opera recording

Running time 3 hours without intervals
Hungarian Language; Hungarian and English Surtitle.

The symphonic works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart… The composer’s music is filled with arias, even when written for instruments. Alongside famous and lesser-known opera excerpts, the OPERA Orchestra and outstanding soloists, will perform a concerto for winds as well as a symphony from Mozart’s mature period.

In the BMW season, there is room for thematic concerts that pay tribute to composers of the season. First in the series, the OPERA Orchestra presents different facets of Wagner, with a programme ranging from an overture to a comic opera and masterpieces of Lieder to the best-known chapter of his oeuvre.

Giuseppe Verdi
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Opera in three parts, in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Ferenc Erkel
BÁNK BÁN (THE VICEROY BÁNK)
Opera three acts, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English subtitles
The text and musical material for the production have been created using both the original and the baritone versions

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Gian Carlo Menotti
BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE / THE TELEPHONE
One-act operas in Hungarian, with Hungarian subtitles

Giacomo Puccini
LA BOHÈME
Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Carl Orff
CARMINA BURANA
Scenic cantata in the original languages, with Hungarian, English, and same-language subtitles

Recommended for children ages 4 to 10
Hungarian-language discussion programme.

Recommended for children ages 4 to 10
Hungarian-language discussion programme.

Marius Petipa / Sir Peter Wright / Sir Frederick Ashton / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Sleeping Beauty
Fairy tale ballet

Giuseppe Verdi
DON CARLO
Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

There are works of art that are timeless, that you cannot get tired of, that cannot be performed too many times. Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is no exception – it is no coincidence that it is known as the “opera of operas”.

Gaetano Donizetti
DON PASQUALE
Comic opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Running time
1 hour 30 minutes without intervals

Amidst the many stories of strong and heroic men, a work where true strength and resolution are embodied by a woman – even if she must disguise herself as a man to achieve her goal – always raises fascinating questions.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Comic opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA
Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
IDOMENEO, RE DI CRETA
Opera seria in three acts, two parts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

By far the most successful of the Hungarian crop of rock operas, ever since its original album release Stephen, the King has had not only symphonic features but has also been pervaded by the vocal, closed number structure characteristic of traditional operas, the presence of large tableaus, and instrumentation that gives the rock music universal perspectives.

Johan Inger - Alexander Ekman - Sol Leon & Paul Lightfoot
Bittersweet Comedies
Walking Mad, Cacti, Sad Case

Radina Dace / Pjotr Iljics Csajkovszkij
LITTLE SWAN LAKE
Children’s production for little ones
Please note, that this programme is in Hungarian and we do not provide any translations.

András Lukács - Jiří Kylián
Timeless Contemporary Adventure
Whirling, Petite Mort, Six Dances

Lucia di Lammermoor is the very model of the Italian style of its era: the perfect embodiment of both the period preceding Bellini and Verdi and the melodic and sentimental Italian bel canto opera.