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"I'm interested in the situation!" - says the penniless Count, when he agrees to serve the rich baron and his daughter in a butler's uniform. The Count, who plays the butler, is a successful playwright, and the daughter, who falls in love with the butler, has dreams of becoming an actress. The actress, who is on holiday at a neighbouring estate, wants to win the playwright; the girl the butler; and the girl's father the Count. In Baroness Lili's 'situation', everyone wants someone - everyone different and yet the same. Jenő Huszka's operetta dream, enriched with great hits, takes us to the extremes of passion and comedy - in a rather narrow, intimate space in the Warehouse Theatre. The tension born from the meeting of the two provides the energy that allows the performance to explode the traditionally accepted boundaries of the genre. Baroness Lili is both more and less than a grand operetta: just nine actors, one musician and an incredible story.
Budapest Operetta & Musical Theatre
The institution is a two-tiered, true musical folk theatre, which stages Hungarian operettas and their contemporary successors, contemporary Hungarian musicals, along with several literary-historical musicals for youth. It plays around 500 performances a year to nearly 400,000 spectators, making it one of Hungary's most visited theatres today.
It is recognised worldwide as the only operetta sung and performed by Hungarians, with its dynamic music, passion, fire, acrobatic dancing, rich visuals and stunning sensory-emotional storms. When the Budapest Operetta Theatre premiered The Queen of the Cards in Germany, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "There are many places in many cities where you can listen to good music. There is only one sure address for the operetta: Budapest, Nagymező utca 17."
The company tours regularly abroad, having performed operettas, musicals and gala performances in countries from Europe to Asia. In the autumn of 2011, the Budapest Operetta Theatre won the exclusive German-language rights to perform Beauty and the Beast, a musical based on one of the world's most beautiful fairy tales, in a close international competition. The Superbrands and MagyarBrands award-winning institution regularly organises prestigious international music competitions.
