Strangers - Opera Exam A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The Liszt Academy’s end-of-year opera exam takes place in the Hungarian State Opera so that singers who are more at home in the Sir Georg Solti Chamber Hall, can try out a full-size stage. Conductor for the exam is Gergely Madaras, one of the brightest stars of the young Hungarian conductor generation, a person who has worked as assistant to Pierre Boulez, conductor at the English National Opera and music director of the Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne, and who is currently leading the Szombathely Savaria Orchestra. Head of the Liszt Academy opera programme, András Almási-Tóth, has selected a rarely performed Károly Goldmark work on a Shakespeare drama, A Winter’s Tale (1908), and Ferenc Lehár’s popular operetta about the love affair between a Viennese aristocratic girl and a Chinese prince, The Land of Smiles (1929), as examination pieces for students of the department of vocal studies, headed by Andrea Meláth.