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classical music, opera, theatre

Kodály: Háry János

The closing performance of the Budapest Spring Festival

one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
  • Produced by Müpa Budapest
  • Budapest Spring Festival

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Háry was an enigma, a puzzle that was easy to understand but difficult to solve, wrote a British musical historian shortly after the premiere of Kodály's opera, adding that it was simultaneously a joke, a satire, and some deeper meaning. Bence Szabolcsi found it similarly complex and thought-provoking when he wrote in 1926: "What looks out from behind the multiplicity of masks, the real face seen through the lies, epics, tales and adventures, is the tragedy of the Hungarian flare-up and the Hungarian dream. It is an unwritten tragedy, and even here it is told not by the libretto, but by Kodály's music.”
In other words, Háry János is not only a colourful and laugh-inducing story told inventively, in music, but also a very complex piece - as regards both its theatrical potentials and deeper meaning -, which should call for reflection again and again. Ferenc Anger's direction seeks to offer new considerations for this joint reflection.

Comic opera in two acts, in Hungarian, with English surtitles.
We kindly inform our audience that during the performance Kodály: Háry János on 23rd April 2017 light effects potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.

Presented by: Budapest Spring Festival

Conductor:

  • Imre Palló

Performers:

  • Háry János
    Attila Dobák
  • Örzse, Háry's fiancée
    Gabriella Balga
  • Emperor Franz
    Béla Szerednyey
  • The Empress
    Zita Váradi
  • Napoleon
    Péter Haumann
  • Marie Louise, his wife
    Zsófia Kálnay
  • Old Marci, the Emperor's coachman
    László Szvétek
  • Baron Ebelasztin
    Tivadar Kiss
  • Peasant / Hungarian sentry / 1st hussar
    Csaba Debreczeny
  • Innkeeper / Russian sentry / 2nd hussar
    Imre Csuja
  • General Krucifix
    Zoltán Bátki Fazekas

Dance:

  • Dávid Bódi
  • Ákos Kanozsai
  • Norbert Kolumbán
  • Péter Kuzma
  • Balázs Mezei
  • Gyula András Soós
  • Csaba Szabó
  • Tamás Szabó
  • Tamás Végh

Featuring:

  • Musical Ensembles of the Hungarian Radio (choirmaster: Zoltán Pad, László Matos )

Creators:

  • set
    Éva Szendrényi
  • costumes
    Gergely Zöldy Z
  • dramaturg
    Judit Kenesey
  • choreographer
    Zsolt Juhász
  • assistant to the director
    Orsolya Magyar
  • director
    Ferenc Anger

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Series of events

Budapesti Tavaszi Fesztivál - 2017
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