FrenchLateNight A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

In the wake of last season’s highly successful MozartLateNight series for adults, there is now a highly sensual performance by the Hungarian State Opera in the Liszt Academy’s renewed Sir Georg Solti Chamber Hall, which has 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 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 where the student recognizes Léna in his Japanese lover. Georges Bizet’s Djamileh is similarly not free from exoticism (and eroticism): it is about an Egyptian prince and his slave-girl who is in love with him. The two works are played with young opera singers.