Levente Gyöngyösi
The Master and Margarita
Opera-musical in two acts, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English surtitles
World premiere of the staged version
Contemporary composer Levente Gyöngyösi may already be familiar to the audience from his work in opera: in 2005 the Opera premiered his first work in the genre, The Stork Caliph. As a source for his most recent work, the composer has taken one of the most important novels of 20th century literature, which he composed into a vocal-symphonic musical for soloists and chorus and employing instruments used in popular music. "In principal, this genre works when it entertains. But I have also chosen a weighty literary subject. On the popular side, I am 'making the piece work', while at the same time putting all of my skill and craftsmanship into the symphonic and electronic arrangement.”
General cast
- Conductor
- Gábor Hollerung
- The Master / Yeshua
- Boldizsár László
- Margarita
- Orsolya Sáfár
- Woland
- Krisztián Cser
- Hella
- Ildikó Szakács
- Behemoth
- Gavodi Zoltán
- Fagotto
- Tivadar Kiss
- Bezdomny / Levi Matvei
- N.N.
- Berlioz / Caiaphas
- András Hábetler
- Latunsky / Judas
- Jenő Dékán
- Pontius Pilate
- István Kovács
- Bosoi, the janitor
- Bence Gulyás
- Ratslayer, a centurion
- András Kiss
- Nurse at the mental hospital
- Éva Várhelyi
- Speaker
- Balázs Csémy
- First nurse
- N.N.
- Second nurse
- N.N.
- Shop manager
- N.N.
- Young woman at the vaudeville theater
- N.N.
- Cleaning woman
- N.N.
- Veteran at the vaudeville theater
- N.N.
- Vinous voice at the vaudeville theatre
- N.N.
- Nero, the emperor
- N.N.
- Lucrezia Borgia
- N.N.
- Monsieur Guillotin
- N.N.
- Jimmy and John, two drunken vampires from New York
- N.N.
Credits
- Libretto based on the script by Róbert Bognár and András Schlanger
- Várady Szabolcs
- Director
- Szente Vajk
- Set and costume designer
- Kentaur
- Choreographer
- Turi Lajos Péter
- Dramaturg
- Eszter Orbán
- Chorus director
- Gábor Csiki
- Premiere
- Feb. 7, 2020