HUNGARIAN CHRISTMAS – MVM Piccolo Programme

Hungarian State Opera

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was barely 12 years old when he composed his bucolic little opera, Bastien et Bastienne, which was performed at an “alternative location”, in the garden of a certain Doctor Mesmer whose studies of magnetism are referred to with such comical effect towards the end of Mozart's career as an opera composer, namely, in Così fan tutte. According to the sources, the young Wolfgang wrote Colas's wizard aria in gibberish himself (“Diggi, daggi, schurri, murri...”), and in the overture we can discover a real curiosity: the main theme is practically the same main theme in the first movement of Beethoven's Eroica composed much later…

Lőrinc Kósa

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4 - 13 Dec, 2024

HUNGARIAN CHRISTMAS – MVM Piccolo Programme · Hungarian State Opera House

Sep 7, 2024 - Jan 11, 2025

BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE / THE TELEPHONE – MVM Piccolo Programme · Hungarian State Opera House

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Singer in Bastien und Bastienne by Mozart

Hungarian State Opera House

Singer in The Telephone by Menotti

Hungarian State Opera House

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