János Vajda / Béla Bartók
MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN / BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE
One act operas, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English surtitles
How far do we let other people into our minds, our soul, and our past? And what happens if someone pushes their way into our consciousness even though we haven't let them in? Béla Bartók and Béla Balázs's world-famous opera offers insight into the various layers and stages of the relationship between men and women, while János Vajda's work based on the famous novella by Thomas Mann depicts the effects of blind extremism and mass hypnosis. Two brilliant 20th century one-act operas in one evening: both Hungarian, and both about the deepest functioning of the human mind and how the psyche can be influenced.
"You do what you like. Or is it possible you have ever not done what you liked – or even, maybe, what you didn't like?" The atmosphere is an unpleasant one in this memory of Torre de Venere. The audience members at an Italian resort town fall, against their will, under the influence of a remarkable magician – with the exception of one person.
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil," said Thomas Mann, whose highly influential novel Mario and the Magician János Vajda use as the basis for his opera of the same name, one of the most successful and affecting works in modern Hungarian opera history. The work will be shown at the Opera House in a production directed by Péter Galambos, with Krisztián Cser in the principal role.
Nagymama, lány, unoka. Mindegyik mást akar, mindegyik másként, mással szeretné élni az életét. Teri például szeretője mellett képzeli el a…
Egy fiatal polgárlány nem könnyű mindennapjait éli, karnyújtásnyira a megvetett, megpecsételt kárhozattól, ahova a szegénysorsú fiatal lányok jutnak. Kiváltképp, ha…
