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Beethoven, Fidelio
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Classical Music, Opera, Theatre
The Met: Live In HD At Müpa Budapest
In addition to singing the title role in Tosca, Lise Davidsen, one of the biggest stars of the Met's 2024/25 season, will also appear in the series of worldwide broadcasts as the husband-liberator Leonore in Fidelio. Singing the role of Rocco in this revival of Jürgen Flimm's 2000 staging will be the German bass, René Pape, making his return to the Met after an absence of several years, with Briton David Butt Philip taking on the diabolical prison warden, Don Pizarro and Florestan, who is languishing in the depths of the dungeon, being played by Tomasz Konieczny, the Polish bass-baritone also well known from his appearances in the Budapest Wagner Days festival here.
The broadcast will be sung in the original language, and shown with Hungarian and English subtitles.
Program and cast
Conductor: Susanna Mälkki
Performers:
Leonore: Lise Davidsen ,
Marzelline: Ying Fang
Florestan: David Butt Philip
Jaquino: Magnus Dietrich
Don Pizarro: Tomasz Konieczny
Rocco: René Pape
Don Fernando: Stephen Milling
Featuring:
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Creators:
set design: Robert Israel
costumes: Florence von Gerkan
lighting: Duane Schuler
director: Jürgen Flimm
Palace of Arts Müpa Budapest
When Müpa Budapest, Hungary and its capital's new cultural hub, opened in 2005, it was built to represent more than 100 years of Hungarian cultural history. As a conglomeration of cultural venues, the building has no precedent in 20th century Hungarian architecture and has no peers in the whole of Central Europe.
The creators of this ambitious project, the Trigránit Development Corporation, prime contractor Arcadom Construction and the Zoboki, Demeter and Partners Architectural Office, were driven by the desire to create a new European cultural citadel as part of the new Millennium City Centre complex along the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Danube waterfront. The result is a facility whose construction quality, appearance, functionality and 21st century technological infrastructure makes it ideally suited to productions of the highest standard. The building is also highly versatile and equipped to host performances of any genre and almost any scale.
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