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 / Kálmán Péter
- Hella
- Ildikó Szakács
- Behemoth
- Gavodi Zoltán
- Fagotto
- Tivadar Kiss
- Bezdomny / Levi Matvei
- Donát Varga / Gergely Ujvári
- Berlioz / Caiaphas
- András Hábetler
- Latunsky / Judas
- Jenő Dékán
- Pontius Pilate
- István Kovács
- Ratslayer, a centurion
- András Kiss
- Bosoi, the janitor
- Bence Gulyás
- Nurse at the mental hospital
- Éva Várhelyi
- Speaker
- Balázs Csémy
- First nurse
- Attila Varga-Tóth univ. stud.
- Second nurse
- Boldizsár Zajkás univ. stud.
- Policeman
- András Kőrösi
- Young woman at the vaudeville theater
- Gabriella Fenyvesi univ. stud.
- Cleaning woman
- Alexandra Ruszó
- Veteran at the vaudeville theater
- Attila Varga-Tóth univ. stud.
- Vinous voice at the vaudeville theatre
- Balázs Papp univ. stud.
- Nero, the emperor
- Balázs Papp univ. stud.
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Gabriella Fenyvesi univ. stud.
- Monsieur Guillotin
- Boldizsár Zajkás univ. stud.
- Jimmy and John, two drunken vampires from New York
- Martin Csölley univ.stud. / Attila Varga-Tóth univ. stud.
- An important comrade
- Balázs Papp univ. stud.
- Drunken man
- Boldizsár Zajkás univ. stud.
- Young woman
- Gabriella Fenyvesi univ. stud.
- Featuring
- Hungarian Circus and Variety Show Artists (MACIVA)
Credits
- Libretto based on the script by Róbert Bognár and András Schlanger
- Várady Szabolcs
- Director
- Szente Vajk
- Set and costume designer
- Kentaur
- Lighting designer
- János Madarász 'Madár'
- Choreographer
- Turi Lajos Péter
- English surtitles
- Arthur Roger Crane
- Dramaturg
- Eszter Orbán
- Chorus director
- Gábor Csiki
- Premiere
- Feb. 7, 2020