Nagy Iván Balettgála

Internationally renowned ballet dancer and several-time ballet director Iván Nagy passed away in 2014. After returning to Hungary, he had committed himself to the service of his homeland and worked with us again as a consultant to the Hungarian State Opera. He imparted a wide range of professional knowledge, enhancing the Hungarian National Ballet’s work and leaving a great empty space in our ensemble’s ranks with his demise. In his memory, we each year organise an international ballet gala night, in which soloists from the greatest ballet companies in the world – including the Royal Ballet, the English National Ballet, the Wiener Staatsbalett – join the artists of the Opera’s ballet ensemble to pay tribute to Iván Nagy’s knowledge and humanity.
On the same day we will award an artist of the Hungarian National Ballet with the Solymosi Award, which is given to the best dancer from the December run of the The Nutcracker.

Organiser, director: Tamás Solymosi
Conductor: Imre Kollár
Featuring the soloists of the Hungarian National Ballet, the students of the Hungarian National Ballet Institute, and the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

Part I
Opening speech
Announcing the winner of the Solymosi Award
Farkas/Kodály: Háry János – Intermezzo – Tamás Mahovics jr., Dénes Darab, Kristóf Morvai, Bálint Katona, Attila Szakács, Balázs Krajczár
Seregi/Hidas: The Cedar ­­– Pas de deux – Lili Felméry (Étoile 2015/2016), Balázs Majoros
Petipa/Perrot/Coralli/Wright /Adam: Giselle ­– Pas de deux ­– Liudmila Konovalova (Wiener Staatsballet), Vadim Muntagirov (The Royal Ballet)
Sarkissova ­/Piazzolla: Libertango ­– Sarkissova Karina, Gergő Balázsi
Perrot/Pugni: Esmeralda – Pas de deux – Melnik Tatiana, Gergely Leblanc
Minkus/Petipa: Don Quijote ­– Pas de deux – Kateryna Khaniukova (English National Ballet), Cesar Corrales (English National Ballet)

Part II
Mráz/Johann Strauss: Tritsch Tratsch Polka – students of the Hungarian National Ballet Institute
Petipa/Gorszkij/Hertel: La Fille Mal Gardée – Pas de deux – Sarkissova Karina, Gergő Balázsi
Venekei/Gounod: Faust – Walpurgis Night – Carulla Leon Jessica, Roland Liebich
Gsovsky/Auber: Grand Pas Classique – Kateryna Khaniukova (English National Ballet), Cesar Corrales (English National Ballet)
Dózsa/Mahler: Adagietto (Symphony No. 5) – Melnik Tatiana, Gergely Leblanc (Étoile 2016/2017)
Petipa/Legris/Drigo: Le corsaire – Pas de deux – Liudmila Konovalova (Wiener Staatsballet), Vadim Muntagirov (The Royal Ballet)