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Gaetano Donizetti: STUART MÁRIA
2025-05-09T22:00:00.000Z - 2025-05-30T22:00:00.000Z
Opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English and Italian subtitles
Length of performance: 3 hours 20 minutes, with 1 intermission.
Born in Bergamo, Gaetano Donizetti's operas have already been staged in Budapest, including The Daughter of the Regiment, Lammermoor's Lucia, The Bell and his much-played comic opera Don Pasquale. But his great ‘operas’, his historical royal dramas, have so far been relegated to the background, with the exception of the long-gone Anna Bolena. So it is an important moment that the 2024/25 season will see the first staging of Stuart's Mary - an Anglo-Saxon theme for the Anglo-Saxon 100 season.
A bel canto composer of endless melodies of infinite beauty, Stuart is based on Friedrich Schiller's drama of the same name, about the last days of the tragic life of the Scottish queen. The production will be directed by Máté Szabó, a veteran of Donizetti's world, whose approach to directing is based on psychological events, and whose production of Lucia in Lammermoor was also admired by audiences a few years ago.
May
09
May
30
Schedule
ANNUAL CAST
Conductor: Martin Rajna, Kálmán Szennai
Stuart Mária: Klára Kolonits
Erzsébet: Gabriella Balga
Anna Kennedy: Melinda Heiter
Robert Dudley: Juraj Hollý
William Cecil: Norbert Balázs (opera studio)
George Talbot: István Kovács
A messenger: Botond Pál (opera studio)
The Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and Choir
CREATORS
Composer:Gaetano Donizetti
Lyricist:Giuseppe Bardari Based on the work of the same title by Friedrich Schiller and translated by Andrea Maffei
Director:Szabó Máté
Set designer:Antal Csaba
Costume designer:Füzér Anni
Video designer:Czeglédi Zsombor
Choreographer:Gergely Csanád Kováts
Dramaturg:Enikő Perczel
Choreographer:Gábor Csiki
Location
Hungarian State Opera
The Hungarian State Opera House is the only theatre in Hungary with a large company, specialising in operas and ballets. The building is one of Budapest's most important 19th century monuments. It was built in neo-Renaissance style according to the plans of Miklós Ybl. The richly decorated interior was designed by renowned Hungarian artists, including Mór Than, Károly Lotz and Bertalan Székely.