Der Messias (Messiah)
Staged oratorio in three parts, without intermission, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English surtitles
Current events
Proclaiming (notably with the popular “Hallelujah” chorus) the coming and resurrection of the Saviour, Messiah remains to this day one of the most popular of Handel’s works. A little under half a century after its 1742 world premiere in Dublin, it was performed for the first time in the revised and rescored German-language version Der Messias created by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The “German Messiah” thus is the fruit of an extraordinary “collaboration” between two geniuses: the scintillating brilliance of Handel as interpreted by Mozart.
With Ferenc Anger directing, Mozart’s arrangement is sung in a new Hungarian translation by Ádám Nádasdy.
AUTHORS
Music revised by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Original, English-language libretto compiled from biblical passages by
Charles Jennens
Libretto translated into German by
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock / Christoph Daniel Ebeling
Hungarian text
Ádám Nádasdy
Dramaturg
Eszter Orbán
Director
Ferenc Anger
Set designer
Gergely Zöldy Z
Costume designer
Mónika Szelei
Choreographer
Marianna Venekei
Chorus director
Gábor Csiki
English translation of Ádám Nádasdy's text by
Arthur Roger Crane
CAST
Condouctor
Gergely Kesselyák
Soprano
Rita Rácz
Alto
Atala Schöck
Tenor
István Horváth
Bass
Krisztián Cser
Condouctor
Gergely Kesselyák
Soprano
Rita Rácz
Alto
Atala Schöck
Tenor
István Horváth
Bass
Krisztián Cser
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