News tagged with: opera

Donizetti’s Masterpiece Returns to State Opera after 110 Years

Gaetano Donizetti's masterpiece, La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) was first performed in Hungary in 1844 at...

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Opera Singer Andrea Rost: From a Csepel Outskirts Music School to the Metropolitan Opera

"It’s not a profession, it’s a vocation, it’s my duty to do that," says world famous Hungarian soprano Andrea Rost...

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“Let everyone sweep in front of their own doors” – Interview with Opera Singer Éva Marton

As the Friends of Hungary Foundation, publisher of Hungary Today, is approaching its 10 year anniversary, we decided to ask...

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Opera Star & Friends of Hungary Founder Éva Marton Receives Prestigious Kennedy Gold Medal

Last Tuesday, together with other famed Hungarian artists, opera star Éva Marton received this year’s Gold Medal in the Arts...

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World Premiere of Kurtág’s Fin de Partie Awarded at Intl Opera Awards

György Kurtág's Fin de Partie in Milan won the prize for best world premiere at the International Opera Awards in...

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Hungarian State Opera’s Production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Overshadowed by Yet Another Controversy

In what was a highly controversial move, the Hungarian State Opera opened its previous season with Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess....

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Russia in Spotlight of Budapest Spring Festival

Russian culture will be in the spotlight of this year's Budapest Spring Festival, which will feature classical music concerts, opera,...

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92-Year-Old Kurtág’s First Opera Debuts in Scala with Orbán in Attendance

Hungarian contemporary composer György Kurtág’s long-awaited, first-ever opera Fin de Partie made its world debut at the La Scala opera...

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Young Vietnamese Tenor from Talent Show ‘Virtuosos’ Gets Hungarian Citizenship

Ninh Long, the young Vietnamese tenor who enchanted the audience and jury of Virtuosos, a Hungarian classical music-based reality competition television program,...

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Hungarian State Opera Announces 2018/2019 Season as Opera House Prepares to Re-Open

The new season of the Opera will bring audiences to Puccini’s Italy with 16 premieres, 60 repertoire pieces, the inauguration...

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Hungarian State Opera to Stage Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess with Hungarian Singers for the First Time in 40 Years

The first premier of the season at the Hungarian State Opera might go down in opera history as a world...

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Hungarian State Opera to Stage Fairy-Tale Hansel and Gretel – Not Just for Children

Traditionally, the last premiere of the year in the Hungarian State Opera is a fairy-tale opera in the festive season....

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A Favorite Cultural Outlet for Local Hungarians: The Sarasota Opera House

The Sarasota Opera House (originally the Edwards Theater) is a favorite cultural venue for the Hungarian community of Sarasota, Florida. It originally opened on...

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Celebrate The 500th Anniversary of the Reformation With The Hungarian State Opera

The Hungarian State Opera remembers the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in autumn 2017 with concert-format performances of Verdi’s Requiem...

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Hungarian Winners Of Armel Opera Festival Will Be Staged In London’s Hackney Empire Theater

The winners of the Armel Opera Festival, Péter Eötvös’s Senza Sangue and Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók, will be staged...

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The Best Of The Best In The World Of Opera, 2017

Udo Zimmerman’s opera Weisse Rose (White Rose), performed by Swiss theatre company Biel Solothurn Theatre Orchestra, won the prize for...

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Siegfried On Stage In Budapest As Hungarian State Opera Continues To Perform Wagner’s Ring Cycle

Last Sunday the Hungarian State Opera got one step closer to having a new complete Ring production. Siegfried, the second...

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Budapest Opera Announces 2017/2018 Season As Opera House Set For Major Renovation

The Hungarian State Opera’s 2017/18 season will get off to an unusual start, since the Opera House will not be...

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Vienna And Budapest, Hometowns Of Classical Music, Will Host Tenth Armel Opera Festival

Budapest and Vienna will jointly host the tenth Armel Opera Festival from June 28 to July 4, according to the...

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Love And Other Demons In The Hungarian State Opera House

The opera, which is based on a short story by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, finally premiered in Budapest. This winter,...

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Love And Other Demons In The Opera House Of Budapest

The first new production of the Hungarian State Opera in the New Year is the Hungarian premiere of Love and...

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