Best of Ring

This programme was born from both impossibilities and opportunities, because while we were planning it, it became clear that the renovation of our Opera House on Andrássy Avenue would not be completed in 2018, as we had originally wished. This also makes it impossible to realise our production of Götterdämmerung, which we had intended to serve as the climax of our 2017/18 “Around the Ring” season, because the orchestra pit of the Erkel Theatre is inadequate for the size of the orchestra required, and, in its present state, the building's stage is also not suitable for rounding out our Ring. We are therefore organising a large-scale concert version presenting an overview of the entire Ring and featuring our finest singers. After the Erkel performance, a similar concert will be performed at the Kodály Centre in Pécs  as a special event of the Pécs National Theatre Festival (POSZT). 

Conductor: Balázs Kocsár
Featuring:
Szilvia Rálik, István Kovácsházi, Béla Perencz,
and the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

First part of the programme
Das Rheingold
Prelude
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

Die Walküre
Prelude
The Ride of the Valkyries
Spring Song
Wotan's Farewell and the Magic Fire Music

Second part of the programme
Siegfried
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhein Journey
Smith's Song

Die Götterdämmerung
Siegfried's Funeral March and Finale
Final scene