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Photo: © Szilvia Csibi, Müpa
classical music, opera, theatre

Gods and Heroes - Wagner's Most Popular Melodies

one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
  • Produced by Müpa Budapest
  • BUDAPEST WAGNER DAYS

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  • 4900 - 22500 HUF
    • Dynamic price
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The discounts of the Müpa+ membership programme will be applied for this performance, and we also credit membership points.
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It is always a thrill to reflect on the fact that, even though the vast majority of Richard Wagner's oeuvre consists of his operas and music dramas, and the singers who perform in them on the world's top stages are exceptional artists, the most popular parts of these works, which can also be played independently, are the orchestral sequences. It is a colourful bouquet of these that the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, playing under the baton of Budapest Wagner Days artistic director Ádám Fischer, will present for the Müpa Budapest audience.

While it is indeed perplexing that most of Wagner's greatest hits are orchestral segments, it is also at the same time understandable, since Wagner, the reformer of opera as an art form, broke with the practice of composing so-called ‘closed numbers' - arias - thus greatly complicating the task of extracting vocal excerpts from his works. Not only are orchestral numbers more suitable for playing in a concert hall, they have catchy melodies too. What music lover would have trouble whistling the tunes of the overture to The Flying Dutchman or Tannhäuser or of The Ride of the Valkyries off the top of their head? All of these will be on the programme this evening, along with the Good Friday Spell from Parsifal, two excerpts from Tristan und Isolde - the Prelude and Isolde's Liebestod - as well as the overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the funeral march from Götterdämmerung. This programme was first presented as part of Budapest Wagner Days in June 2023, and now, encouraged by the enormous success of that event, we are repeating it, partly in the hope that this kind of orchestral performance can serve as an ‘inaugural concert' enticing many new listeners to get to to know Wagner. The special feature of the concert is how it will not be performed by the regular ensemble of the Wagner Days festival, the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, but rather by Müpa Budapest's resident ensemble, the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest

Sections

  • Wagner: Der fliegende Hollander - Overture
  • Wagner: Parsifal - Good Friday Spell
  • Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture
  • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Isolde's Liebestod
  • Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Overture
  • Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Siegfried's Funeral March
  • Wagner: Die Walküre - The Ride of the Valkyries

Conductor:

  • Ádám Fischer

Featuring:

  • Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Ticket information

You may purchase tickets online and in person for this performance using a Müpa Budapest gift voucher or by OTP, K&H or MBH SZÉP cards. If you purchase the tickets in person, then we also accept Rewin Gift Vouchers, and Rewin Gift Cards as well as the culture subaccount allowance on OTP Cafeteria cards.

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