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  • 2019. November 29.

Nutcracker Festival 2019 – Advent at the Erkel Theatre

December at the Opera means that holiday magic returns to the stage and to the square around the Erkel Theatre. The Christmas market in front of the theatre is open until the last day of the year. Inside, opera and ballet performances, charity programmes, and a special concert awaits audiences.

  • 2019. November 20.

Komlósi35 – anniversary gala concert of the renowned mezzo-soprano at the Erkel Theatre

Internationally acclaimed Hungarian opera singer Ildikó Komlósi celebrates 35 years at the Hungarian State Opera. To mark the occasion, a special anniversary gala is organised at the Erkel Theatre featuring Hungarian soloists and guest star Italian tenor, Marco Berti as well as the artists of FlamenCorazónArte Dance Theatre and Varidance Ensemble. The concert programme includes a scene from Verdi’s Aida and highlights from Bizet’s Carmen.

  • 2019. August 29.

2 for 1 offers at the Erkel Theatre

Buy two tickets online for the price of one for the final Erkel Theatre performances of Billy Elliot – the Musical and the new ballet show, 1st Steps.

  • 2019. August 23.

1st Steps – the new Hungarian National Ballet show

Created to Maurice Ravel’s Bolero and the music of Steve Reich, Erik Satie and others, the choreographies of the 1st Steps show address facets of life that affect us all in the irresistibly thrilling language of dance of Hans van Manen, Johan Inger, Jiří Kylián and Alexander Ekman. 

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  • 2019. November 05.

Komlósi35 – anniversary gala concert

Many people seem to remember Ildikó Komlósi as having been on the stage from a very early age, from early on in her studies. The fact is, though, that she left plenty of time for years of training at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and for maturing as an artist, and it was only in 1984 that she signed with the Hungarian State Opera. At the time, the institution was only operating at the Erkel Theatre, because the Opera House on Andrássy Avenue was undergoing renovations and would only reopen some months later, a situation that is similar to today’s. In the 35 years that have passed since then, the mezzo-soprano has made a fantastic career for herself, one that earned her the Kossuth Prize in 2016, although this recognition of her lifetime achievements should by no means be taken to indicate that the end is at hand.

  • 2019. November 26.

Giacomo Puccini: La bohème 2.0

Opera in two parts, four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian and English surtitles

  • 2017. September 17.

Opera House closed for restoration

The Opera House in Budapest is currently undergoing extensive restoration and modernisation. Until its reopening in 2021, our performances can be seen at the Erkel Theatre, the second venue of the Hungarian State Opera.

  • 2019. November 26.

Giacomo Puccini: La bohème

Opera in three parts, four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian and English surtitles

  • 2017. September 17.

Performances at the Erkel Theatre

The Opera House in Budapest is currently undergoing extensive restoration and modernisation. Until its reopening in 2021, our performances can be seen at the Erkel Theatre, the second venue of the Hungarian State Opera.

  • 2019. November 07.

Wayne Eagling – Tamás Solymosi / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker

Fairy-tale ballet in three acts

  • 2019. October 31.

Georg Friedrich Händel – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Messiah

Oratorio in three parts, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English surtitles – for the first time on the programme of the Opera

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April at the Hungarian State Opera: a focus on dance

April at the Hungarian State Opera: a focus on dance
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Petipa/Wright/Csajkovszkij: Csipkerózsika | The Sleeping Beauty

Photo gallery of The Sleeping Beauty

Starting with an international ballet gala, the next month offers various programmes for dance fans at the Hungarian State Opera: two new contemporary dance productions and a panorama of the Hungarian dance scene await audiences at the Erkel Theatre, whereas lovers of classical ballet can see Sir Peter Wright’s version of The Sleeping Beauty at the Opera House.

2nd Iván Nagy International Ballet Gala – 31 March, 2016 | Opera House

Internationally renowned ballet dancer and several-time ballet director Iván Nagy passed away in 2014. After returning to Hungary, he had committed himself to the service of his homeland and worked with us again as a consultant to the Hungarian State Opera. He imparted a wide range of professional knowledge, enhancing the Hungarian National Ballet’s work and leaving a great empty space in our ensemble’s ranks with his demise. In his memory, we each year organise an international ballet gala night, in which soloists from the greatest ballet companies in the world join the artists of the Opera’s ballet ensemble to pay tribute to Iván Nagy’s knowledge and humanity.

Soloists: Yonah Acosta, Yoel Carreno (English National Ballet), Yuhui Choe (Royal Ballet), Ivan Zaitcev, Agelina Vorontsova (Mikhailovsky Theatre), Alexandra Kozmér, Zoltán Oláh, Aliya Tanykpayeva, Dmitry Timofeev, Karina Sarkissova, Ievgen Lagunov, Lili Felméry, Gergely Leblanc, Tatiana Melnik, Gergő Balázsi, Elizaveta Cheprasova (Hungarian National Ballet)

Marius Petipa – Sir Peter Wright – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty – premiere 17 April, 2016 | Opera House

A magical fairy tale on the ballet stage danced to the wonderful music of one of Russia's greatest composers. An outstanding piece from the Romantic repertoire, The Sleeping Beauty fuses together all the grace and virtuosity found in the greatest ballets. The extraordinary technical demands of Marius Petipa's original choreography, considered one of the high points of classical ballet, offers dance companies an opportunity to display their talents. The ballet features Sir Peter Wright's concept of Petipa's original ideas and stunning stage sets by Philip Prowse.

Further performances: 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28 April, 2016

Dóra Barta / Béla Földi – Solaris: Space Fantasy – premiere: 21 April, 2016 | Erkel Theatre

Modern film art and literature are frequently translated into the universal language of dance. The evening entitled Space Fantasy features two new contemporary dance productions.

Planet in Turmoil by Dóra Barta is homage to Koyaanisqatsi. Godfrey Reggio's 1982 cult film, with music written by Philip Glass, is a wordless poem depicting modern man's loss of balance with images of unique power. Now Dóra Barta has conceived for the Erkel's stage her own personalised "alienation mythology" about the tragedy of humanity's since then even more destructively wasteful treatment of nature through another silent visual language: that of dance, in a production that is likewise set to Glass's repetitive music.

Choreographer Béla Földi has found similarly exciting material in Ray Bradbury's science fiction work The Martian Chronicles, with the magical/mystical journey accompanied by music that the ensemble Solaris had written for Bradbury's stories thirty years ago and which has been a favourite of discerning music lovers ever since. 

Further performances: 23, 28 April, 2016

Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass © 1982 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by Permission.
The Martian Chronicles is performed with the permission of Ray Bradbury Literary Works LLC. © 1959, renewed 1977 by Ray Bradbury

DanceTrend ’16: alternative routes in dance – 29 April, 2016 | Erkel Theatre

In the traditional DanceTrend programme, contemporary dancers, arrangers, choreographers and independent companies get a chance to introduce themselves. In the second half of the programme, audiences will get to know the work of the Hungarian National Ballet’s young choreographers. 

The Badora Dance Company will perform the choreography by Dóra Barta entitled The Devil's Sand (God Created Man from the Sand that the Devil Brought up from the Depths of the Sea). Fellini Étude by Attila Kozma will be shown by the Miskolc Ballet. The last part of the evening features Between the Balance by Kristina Starostina, Iurii Kekalo and Danielle Gould of the Hungarian National Ballet.

Pas de quatre ’16: panorama of Hungarian dance ensembles – 30 April, 2016 | Erkel Theatre

This evening of ballet will feature four unique productions from four Hungarian companies: Uneven (Ballet Company of Győr), Orpheus and Eurydice (Ballet Pécs), Mimicry (Szeged Contemporary Dance Company) and Walking Mad (Hungarian National Ballet). Each of the four one-acts gives a different answer to the question of what possibilities and forms are available to the language of ballet as it seeks new paths forward while building on tradition.


Johan Inger: Walking Mad (Jessica Leon Carulla, Boris Myasnikov, Iurii Kekalo)
Photography by Attila Nagy

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