Theatre

Marius Petipa – Albert Mirzoyan / Ludwig Minkus
LA BAYADÈRE
Classical ballet in three acts

Wayne Eagling – Tamás Solymosi / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
THE NUTCRACKER
Fairy-tale ballet in two acts

Giuseppe Verdi
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Opera in three parts, in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Comic opera in two acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA
Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
IDOMENEO, RE DI CRETA
Opera seria in two acts, two parts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Gaetano Donizetti
DON PASQUALE
Comic opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Giacomo Puccini
TURANDOT
Opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

"There's an old, slightly cynical, adage in the theatre that says, when you're out of ideas, produce a Shakespearean work."

For kindergarten and elementary school children

Classical Singspiel

Language Hungarian, German
Surtitle Hungarian, English, German

Contemporary Romantic opera

Running time 4 hours 45 minutes including two intervals
Language German; Surtitle Hungarian, English, German

Ferenc Erkel
BÁNK BÁN (THE VICEROY BÁNK)
Opera three acts, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English subtitles
The text and musical material for the production have been created using both the original and the baritone versions

Classical Opera

Running time 3 hours including two interval
Language Italian ; Surtite Hungarian, English, Italian.

János Novák, a puppeteer and musician who is probably known to most people from performances at the Kolibri Theatre and a 2016 chamber performance of Disruption in the Seraglio (based on Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail) at the Opera House, stages Benjamin Britten The Little Sweep written for young audiences and performers.

Giacomo Puccini
LA BOHÈME
Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Radina Dace / Pjotr Iljics Csajkovszkij
LITTLE SWAN LAKE
Children’s production for little ones
Please note, that this programme is in Hungarian and we do not provide any translations.

Lucia di Lammermoor is the very model of the Italian style of its era: the perfect embodiment of both the period preceding Bellini and Verdi and the melodic and sentimental Italian bel canto opera.

Marius Petipa / Sir Peter Wright / Sir Frederick Ashton / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Sleeping Beauty
Fairy tale ballet

Carl Orff
CARMINA BURANA
Scenic cantata in the original languages, with Hungarian, English, and same-language subtitles

Contemporary opera

Running time 3 hours including two intervals
Language Italian - Surtitle Hungarian, English, Italian

Rudi van Dantzig – Toer van Schayk / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SWAN LAKE
Classical ballet in three acts

Johan Inger - Alexander Ekman - Sol Leon & Paul Lightfoot
Bittersweet Comedies
Walking Mad, Cacti, Sad Case

Giuseppe Verdi
REQUIEM
Staged oratorio in Latin, with Hungarian, English, and Latin subtitles

Based on Ádám Jenő's work by the same title
HUNGARIAN CHRISTMAS
Singspiel in two tableaux, in Hungarian

By far the most successful of the Hungarian crop of rock operas, ever since its original album release Stephen, the King has had not only symphonic features but has also been pervaded by the vocal, closed number structure characteristic of traditional operas, the presence of large tableaus, and instrumentation that gives the rock music universal perspectives.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Gian Carlo Menotti
BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE / THE TELEPHONE
One-act operas in Hungarian, with Hungarian subtitles

The vulnerable protagonists of Aida face an agonising moral dilemma: to what should they be loyal? To their homelands? To their families? Or to their love?

Neoclassical ballet

Running time 2 hours 30 minutes including one interval

András Lukács - Jiří Kylián
Timeless Contemporary Adventure
Whirling, Petite Mort, Six Dances

Richard Wagner
PARSIFAL
Bühnenweihfestspiel in three acts, in German, with Hungarian, English, and German subtitles

Amidst the many stories of strong and heroic men, a work where true strength and resolution are embodied by a woman – even if she must disguise herself as a man to achieve her goal – always raises fascinating questions.

There are works of art that are timeless, that you cannot get tired of, that cannot be performed too many times. Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is no exception – it is no coincidence that it is known as the “opera of operas”.

Mix Comic opera 12+

Running time 2 hours 40 minutes one interval
Language Italian; Surtitle Hungarian, English, Italian.

Giuseppe Verdi
MACBETH
Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

The World of Ballet Remembers a Hungarian Legend
2014 saw the sudden passing of the international ballet artist and ballet director Iván Nagy. After his retirement, he had returned to serve his country by working as head artistic consultant for the Hungarian State Opera.