HungarianLateNight - The Respectful Prostitute / Opposite the Catafalque

Kamilló Lendvay's 1978 opera La Putain respectueuse is being included on the Opera's programme for the first time, as is a work by the younger composer Gábor Péter Mezei: Opposite the Catafalque. Both works focus on the destinies of women: the first in a treatment of a classic Sartre play, the other a contemporary chamber piece. The theme, however, is similar: at a universal level, both press the question of whether it is possible to attain genuine happiness and prosperity purchased at the price of the sacrifice of others.

Audience members should be advised that strobe lighting effects are used in the course of the performance Opposite the Catafalque.

Opposite the Catafalque
Opera in two acts, without an intermission, in Hungarian, with Hungarian surtitles
World premiere

General cast:

Conductor: Gergely Vajda
Rita: Nóra Ducza
Dóra: Tünde Szalontay
The man: Csaba Sándor

Credits:

Composer: Gábor Péter Mezei
Librettist: Ferenc Anger
Director: Kriszta Székely
Set designer: Nelli Pallós
Costume designer: Dóra Pattantyus
Dramaturg: Kinga Keszthelyi

Premiere: March 3, 2017

La putain respectueuse (The Respectful Prostitute)
Opera in one act, in Hungarian, with Hungarian surtitles
On the Opera's programme for the first time

General cast:

Conductor: Gergely Vajda
Lizzie: Borbála Keszei
Fred: Péter Balczó
The negro: Krisztián Cser
Senator Clark: András Káldi Kiss
First policeman: Gábor Csiki
Second policeman: Antal Bakó

Credits:

Composer: Kamilló Lendvay
The libretto was written based on the drama of the same title by Jean-Paul Sartre: Kamilló Lendvay
Director: Kriszta Székely
Set designer: Nelli Pallós
Costume designer: Dóra Pattantyus
Choreographer: Csaba Sebestyén
Dramaturg: Kinga Keszthelyi

Premiere: March 3, 2017