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  • Tagged: Opera House

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    Power comes into season

    What’s on at the Opera and Erkel in March

    • 6. March 2017 - by Kiára Árgenta in Culture

    As the dark days of winter begin to lift into spring, the Opera House and Erkel Theatre have a fine programme of events crowned by two offerings from Tchaikovsky, “The[…]

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    Raising the temperature

    February offerings at the Hungarian State Opera

    • 11. February 2017 - by Kiára Árgenta in Culture

    Punctuating the February gloom as winter still hangs like a shroud over the Duna River is difficult. True it is one of the most depressing months of the year, but[…]

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    Make-believe world as harsh as our own

    “Onegin” by John Cranko / Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Kurt-Heinz Stolze

    • 21. January 2017 - by Kiára Árgenta in Culture

    Tchaikovsky in “Onegin” is slowly setting himself up for the intense Arctic chill of his later work, “The Queen of Spades,” also inspired by Pushkin, which is even more darkly[…]

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    Absolutely harsh or totally wonderful

    Previews of “Dialogues des Carmélites” and “The Nutcracker”

    • 2. December 2016 - by Kiára Árgenta in Culture

    This weekend at the Opera House the very first Hungarian première of Francis Poulenc’s intense opera “Dialogues des Carmélites” brings its dark and brutal history to the stage. An absolute[…]

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    Counting the cost of change

    The Mine by Einojuhani Rautavaara and Love by Judit Varga, Hungarian State Opera

    • 28. October 2016 - by Kiára Árgenta in Culture

    The Mine and Love are two one-act operas paired together and which opened as part of the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Uprising, the first by a Finnish composer and[…]

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    Slaving away to mixed result

    “Spartacus” by László Seregi / Aram Ilyich Khachaturian, Hungarian National Ballet

    • 21. October 2016 - by Kiára Árgenta in Culture

    “Spartacus” set out to reach the heights of greatness; everything associated with this ballet suggests soaring ambition, a rich tapestry of Roman history with majestic settings and an epic storyline.[…]

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    Danger and delicacy

    “Kyling It”, Hungarian National Ballet and “La Traviata” by Giuseppe Verdi, Hungarian State Opera

    • 23. September 2016 - by Kiára Árgenta in Culture

    Tense, edgy, moody and sparse; modern ballet should stretch the boundaries, and these pieces of dramatic dynamism will do just that. Two choreographers, Czech Jiří Kylián and Swedish Johan Inger,[…]

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    Sphinx’s straight face will be tested

    “Il Campanello”, “I Pazzi Per Progetto” and “The Telephone” at the Hungarian State Opera

    • 16. September 2016 - by Kiára Árgenta in Culture

    Outside the Opera House this weekend and the following Saturday are three different one-act comic operas. Set on Sphinx Terrace in the afternoon, admission is free and the warm September[…]

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    Light and dark song and dance

    Autumn preview: Hungarian State Opera and Hungarian National Ballet

    • 2. September 2016 - by Kiára Árgenta in Culture

    The autumn season for the Opera House and Erkel Theatre has a densely packed and richly varied schedule with premières, returning shows, concerts and events. Still running is the family[…]

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    Turmoil bristling with tension

    “Otello” by Giuseppe Verdi, Szabad Tér Színház and Hungarian State Opera Production

    • 24. July 2016 - by Kiára Árgenta in Culture

    “Otello” is a magnificently dark production lifted from the pages of a Shakespearean tragedy and transformed into an opera every bit as paranoid, edgy and atmospheric by master of darkness[…]

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