The Master and Margarita

Contemporary composer Levente Gyöngyösi may already be familiar to the audience from his work in opera: in 2005 the Opera premiered his first work in the genre, The Stork Caliph. As a source for his most recent work, the composer has taken one of the most important novels of 20th century literature, which he composed into a vocal-symphonic musical for soloists and chorus and employing instruments used in popular music. "In principal, this genre works when it entertains. But I have also chosen a weighty literary subject. On the popular side, I am 'making the piece work', while at the same time putting all of my skill and craftsmanship into the symphonic and electronic arrangement.”

Cast

Conductor

 

Gábor Hollerung

 

Woland

 

Krisztián Cser / Péter Kálmán

 

The Master / Yeshua

 

Péter Balczó / Boldizsár László

 

Margarita

 

Orsolya Sáfár

 

Professor Stravinsky / Pontius Pilate

 

Bence Pataki / István Kovács

 

Berlioz / Caiaphas

 

András Hábetler

 

Bezdomny / Levi Matvei

 

Donát Varga / Gergely Ujvári

 

Fagotto

 

Tivadar Kiss

 

Hella

 

Ildikó Szakács

 

Behemoth

 

Gavodi Zoltán

 

Annushka / Slave girl

 

Lili Kocsis

 

Latunsky / Judas

 

Jenő Dékán

 

Policeman / Afranius

 

András Kőrösi

 

Head nurse / Ratslayer, a centurion

 

András Kiss

 

Bosoi, the janitor

 

Bence Gulyás

 

Nurse at the mental hospital

 

Éva Várhelyi

 

Speaker

 

Balázs Csémy

 

First nurse / Jimmy, a drunken vampire from New York

 

Attila Varga-Tóth univ. stud.

 

Second nurse / John, a drunken vampire from New York

 

Boldizsár Zajkás univ. stud.

 

First man / Drunken man / Monsierur Guillotine

 

Richárd Hoffmann

 

Second man / Vinous voice / An important comrade / Nero, the emperor

 

Balázs Papp univ. stud.

 

Young woman at the vaudeville theater / Lucrezia Borgia

 

Gabriella Fenyvesi univ. stud.

 

Cleaning woman

 

Alexandra Ruszó

 

Featuring the Hungarian Circus and Variety Show Artists

 

Eszter Bako / Márk Halasi / Linett Kalántai / Zsuzsanna Lakatos / Kira Szabó / Zsolt Szlavkovszki / Noémi Takács / Laura Tomasovszky

 

Featuring the Students of the Hungarian Dance Academy

 

Eszter Asbolt / Boglárka Bársony / Zsombor Bodó / Liza Csóka / Kristóf Deák / Haanpaa Phet Samurai / Boglárka Holecz / Attila Kercsó / Gábor Kindl / Edmond Kisbakonyi / Mátyás Kovács / Hanna Lentulai / Dorina Mayer / Ábel Mezei / Gergő Nyári / Luca Pecz Péli / Karina Pintér / János Suba / Viktória Tran / Zsófia Tuza

Credits

Libretto based on the script by Róbert Bognár and András Schlanger

 

Várady Szabolcs

 

Director

 

Szente Vajk

 

Set and costume designer

 

Kentaur

 

Lighting designer

 

János Madarász 'Madár'

 

Choreographer

 

Turi Lajos Péter

 

English surtitles

 

Arthur Roger Crane

 

Dramaturg

 

Eszter Orbán

 

Chorus director

 

Gábor Csiki

Premiere

 

Feb. 7, 2020