How far do we let other people into our minds, our soul, and our past? And what happens if someone pushes their way into our consciousness even though we haven’t let them in? Béla Bartók and Béla Balázs’s world-famous opera offers insight into the various layers and stages of the relationship between men and women, while János Vajda’s work based on the famous novella by Thomas Mann depicts the effects of blind extremism and mass hypnosis. Two brilliant 20th century one-act operas in one evening: both Hungarian, and both about the deepest functioning of the human mind and how the psyche can be influenced.
Credits:
Director: Péter Galambos
Conductor: Kocsár Balázs
Mario and the Magician
Cast:
András Palerdi as Cipolla
Balázs Csémy as Mario
Orsolya Hajnalka Rőser as Signora Angiolieri
Antal Cseh as Signor Angiolieri
Márió Matyó as the woollen-shirted one
Lajos Geiger as Zoltán Bátki Fazekas
Bluebeard’s Castle
Cast:
András Palerdi as Bluebeard
Ildikó Komlósi as Judit
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