...a country (Hungary) whose population, even today, is barely over ten million has produced so many musicians and so much outstanding music. I am grateful for having been born and trained there.

Sir Georg Solti
Carmen

16 January 2019, 19.00-21.00

Solti Hall

Opera Exam Festival

Carmen Presented by Liszt Academy

Performance of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music

Bizet: Carmen

Carmen: Anna Fürjes
Don José: Sykora Miroslav
Escamillo: Azat Malik
Micaela: Estefanía Avilés
Frasquita: Katoh Hiroko
Mercedes: Gabriella Fenyvesi
Dancairo: Ágoston Cser
Remendado: Bence Gulyás
Morales: Martin Csölley
Zuniga: Ferenc Endrész
Costumes: Judit Sinkovics
Choreographer: Krisztián Gergye
Musical assistant: Mónika Baja
Choir formed by the Students of the Department of Vocal Studies
Reinstrumentalization for chamber music: Stephen McNeff
Anima Musicae Ensemble: Lívia Duleba (flute/piccolo), András Szabó (clarinet/bass clarinet), Katalin Szabó-Rajczi (clarinet/alto saxophone), Tamás Molnár (trumpet), Katalin Koltai (guitar), László G.Horváth (violin), Tamás Szabó (viola), Péter Váray (cello), Gábor Gyetvai (double bass), Helga Kiss (percussion)
Conductor: Szabolcs Sándor
Director: László Keszég
Head of Department: Andrea Meláth
Teachers: Prof. emer. Ks. Éva Marton, Andrea Meláth, Magda Nádor, Katalin Halmai, Ingrid Kertesi, Gábor Bretz, Péter Fried
Repetiteurs: Katalin Alter, Gabriella Gyökér, Gábor Alszászy, Miklós Harazdy, Anikó Pál, Ádám Medveczky, Gábor Rózsa, János Ferenc Szabó, Marianna Szelényiné Holló, Péter Oberfrank

Every year the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, as organizer of the Opera Exam Festival, prepares for this international meeting with one of its own productions. This year’s music theatre project is managed by theatre director László Keszég, and once again we can see and hear students of the opera department of the Liszt Academy. In 2019 it is the turn of the world-famous Bizet opera Carmen to be staged. Of course, we can expect to come across another truly remarkable performance to chamber music accompaniment. British composer Stephen McNeff, who is also famous as a contemporary opera author, reorchestrated the work at the request of Mid Wales Opera in 2014. Bizet often employed an orchestra to evoke a Spanish ambience, and this chamber orchestra version remains true to this concept.

Presented by

Liszt Academy Concert Centre

Tickets:

HUF 1 200