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Classical Music, Opera, Theatre
After the January performance of Mahler's Fifth, on this evening, the BFO's final full orchestra concert in Hungary for the season, we will hear the composer's monumental Second ‘Resurrection' Symphony, featuring the Hungarian National Choir, one of our country's leading professional vocal ensembles, and two outstanding guest soloists. 'Anna Lucia Richter's voice has a warm, sensuous sound that is multi-dimensional, without heaviness, with impressively effortless breath control,’ wrote BBC Music Magazine. Christiane Karg, for her part, is a frequent guest at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Vienna's Musikverein and Theater an der Wien, Covent Garden and Milan's La Scala; she has sung this work with the BFO before, in 2020.
Program and cast
Cast for 17th to 19th March 2025
Conductor: Iván Fischer
Featuring:
piano: Igor Levit
Budapest Festival Orchestra
17th March Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major, Op. 55 Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100
18th March Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34bis Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 Prokofiev: Cinderella Suite
19th March Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges - suite, Op. 33bis Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 53 Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major (‘Classical'), Op. 25
Cast for 14th to 16th April 2025
Conductor:
Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Featuring:
violin: María Dueñas
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Program for 14th to 17th April
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Overture to Giulio Cesare, Op. 78
Lalo: Spanish Symphony, Op. 21
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Cast for 6th to 8th May 2025
Conductor:
Iván Fischer
Featuring:
mezzo-soprano
Anna Lucia Richter
soprano
Christiane Karg
Hungarian National Choir (choirmaster: Csaba Somos)
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor (‘Resurrection')
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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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