FrenchLateNight A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

In the wake of last season’s highly successful Mozart Late Night series for adults, here follows a highly sensual performance by the Hungarian State Opera in the Liszt Academy’s renewed Sir Georg Solti Chamber Hall, which has recently regained its operatic function. In a single evening we can see two rarely performed 19th-century one-act plays, two works which premiered in the same season at the Opéra Comique in Paris in 1872. La princesse jaune by Camille Saint-Saëns rode the then fashionable wave of Japonism. The work revolves around the romance of a student Kornélis, who is in love with a Japanese girl, and his cousin Léna, who is attracted to him. In this there is a magical and extremely erotic dream scene when the student recognizes Léna in his Japanese lover. Georges Bizet’s Djamileh is similarly flavoured with exoticism and eroticism. The piece is about an Egyptian prince and his slave girl, who is in love with him. The two works are played by young opera singers.