Arnold Schönberg: Gurre - songs
Oratorical song cycle with Hungarian and English subtitles
Length of the performance: 2 hours, without intermission.
Only once before, in 1998, Hungarian musicians have had the opportunity to perform the largest-scale work of the leading figure of the Second Viennese School, which, along with Mahler's Symphony No. 8 and Britten's War Requiem, has become the most artistically demanding opus in classical music literature. Arnold Schoenberg's dramatic cantata Gurre, born 150 years ago in 1874, is the imposing final piece of post-romanticism and a milestone in his own composing career. The score, which combines the influences of Wagner, Richard Strauss and Mahler, is a truly unique and special piece, and will be studied by more than 300 artists for this occasion: not only the OPERA Choir and Orchestra, its soloists, but also the world-renowned Hungarian conductor Henrik Nánási.
Schedule
SEASONAL CAST
Conductor: Henrik Nánási
Tove: Tünde Szabóki
Forest Dove: Atala Schöck
Waldemar: István Kovácsházi
Fool Klaus: Gergely Ujvári
Peasant: Zsolt Haja
Narrator: Dénes Gulyás
With the participation of the Orchestra and Choir of the Hungarian State Opera House
SOURCES
Composer: Arnold Schönberg
Jens Peter Jacobsen's song cycle Gurresange translated into German by Robert Franz Arnold
Erkel Theatre
Az Erkel Színház, Népopera néven 1911. december 7-én nyitotta meg kapuit. A többször is átalakított épület 1951 és 2007, valamint 2013 óta a Magyar Állami Operaház második játszóhelyeként funkcionál. Megnyitása óta az ország legnagyobb nézőterével büszkélkedhet, jelenleg 1819 ülőhellyel várja a közönséget.
