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…

BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE / THE TELEPHONE – MVM Piccolo Programme

Hungarian State Opera

"There is only one way to end your career more splendidly than with Otello, and that is to end it with Falstaff!" So Verdi was told by his librettist and good friend, Arrigo Boito. Although the elderly master had not tried his hand at comedy since the ugly failure of Un giorno di regno in 1840, fifty years later the dry spell ended: Sir John Falstaff, the fat and rakish knight invented by the composer's favourite author, Shakespeare, would become his second comic opera, as well as his final – and perhaps most brilliant – work. This comedy conceived by world-renowned director Arnaud Bernard will be returning to the stage of the Opera House with a parade of stars for a cast!

Zsuzsanna Kapi

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Sep 7, 2024 - Jan 11, 2025

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

Nov 17, 2024

Falstaff · Hungarian State Opera

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Sep 7, 2024 - Jan 11, 2025

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

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Singer in Bastien und Bastienne by Mozart

Hungarian State Opera

Singer in The Telephone by Menotti

Hungarian State Opera

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