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Requiem
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Requiem – Giuseppe Verdi
Staged oratorio | Contemporary
Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes, including one interval
Language: Latin
Surtitles: Hungarian, English, Latin
In recent years, even decades, it has become a common practice to perform certain oratorios fully or semi-staged. After Messiah and Matthäus-Passion, nothing could be more suitable to be next in this line than Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem, which is claimed by many, half-seriously, but certainly aptly, to be their “favourite opera”. While in Verdi’s time sacred spaces ingrained in everyday life were home to these masses for the dead – even though the composer himself conducted his work at La Scala and then for years at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, proving he was not opposed to making a theatre the space for his piece filled with operatic forms –, today, the greatest works of this genre are largely confined to concert halls brimming with light. In the OPERA’s production, Requiem is freed from the captivity of music stands and is displayed in all its human, morbid dread-filled drama. Ádám Tulassay’s staging brings Verdi’s piece back to the scene of our everyday lives: in these sombre, big-city surroundings, it showcases the big-city man’s relationship with mortality.
Age restriction: The performance is not recommended for children under 14 years of age.
Parental guidance: Strong flashing lights appear throughout this performance which could disturb those with photosensitivity.
Program and cast
Conductor: Jiri Habart
Soprano - Zsuzsanna Ádám
Alto - Erika Gál
Tenor - István Kovácsházi
Bass - Gosh Sargsyan
Dancer - N. N.
Featuring the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Director: Ádám Tulassay
Set designer: Angéla Csúcs
Costume designer: Krisztina Lisztopád
Choreographer: Márton Csuzi
Animation designer: Zsombor Czeglédi
Lighting designer: Tamás Pillinger
Chorus director: Gábor Csiki
Hungarian State Opera
STANDING ROOM TICKETS - INFORMATION IN CASE OF A FULL HOUSE!
If all the seats are sold out for the selected time, but you still want to see the production on that day, 84 of the extremely affordable standing seats will be sold at the theatre, 2 hours before the start of the performance, with which you can visit the gallery on the 3rd floor. Tickets can be purchased at the ticket office of the Budapest Opera House. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the stage can only be seen to a limited extent from the standing places and the side seats, but at the same time, following the performance is also supported by television broadcasting on the spot.
The Opera House is not only one of the most significant art relic of Budapest, but the symbol of the Hungarian operatic tradition of more than three hundred years as well. The long-awaited moment in Hungarian opera life arrived on September 27, 1884, when, in the presence of Franz Joseph I. the Opera House was opened amid great pomp and ceremony. The event, however, erupted into a small scandal - the curious crowd broke into the entrance hall and overran the security guards in order to catch a glimpse of the splendid Palace on Sugar út. Designed by Mikós Ybl, a major figure of 19th century Hungarian architecture, the construction lived up to the highest expectations. Ornamentation included paintings and sculptures by leading figures of Hungarian art of the time: Károly Lotz, Bertalan Székely, Mór Than and Alajos Stróbl. The great bronze chandelier from Mainz and the stage machinery moda by the Asphaleia company of Vienna were both considered as cutting-edge technology at that time.
Many important artists were guests here including Gustav Mahler, the composer who was director in Budapest from 1887 to 1891. He founded the international prestige of the institution, performing Wagner operas as well as Magcagni’ Cavalleria Rusticana. The Hungarian State Opera has always maintained high professional standards, inviting international stars like Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Monserrat Caballé, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, José Cura, Thomas Hampson and Juan Diego Flórez to perform on its stage. The Hungarian cast include outstanding and renowed artists like Éva Marton, Ilona Tokody, Andrea Rost, Dénes Gulyás, Attila Fekete and Gábor Bretz.
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