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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

  • 2019. December 05.

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Ballet evening in three acts

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Nutcracker Festival 2019 – Advent at the Erkel Theatre

  • 2019. November 29.
Nutcracker Festival 2019 – Advent at the Erkel Theatre
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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.

Adults and children who love yuletide treats are invited to gather round the Erkel Theatre. Once again, there will be choral performances each evening outside the building. With charity in mind, wine will be mulled once again, chestnuts will be freshly roasted, the Opera Shop will be open inside the theatre, where exclusive publications, CDs and DVDs and music-themed books are also available. All proceeds from the performances will go to Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA). Leading artists from the Opera will be serving and selling the products in the huts, while anyone will be able to have their photo taken with the enormous Nutcracker doll. 

Our legendary ballet production, The Nutcracker was unchanged since 1950, was renewed four years ago, for technical reasons, the audience will once again see Gusztáv Oláh’s old set, but the new choreography by Wayne Eagling and Tamás Solymosi with Nóra Romhányi’s new costumes at the Erkel Theatre between 29 November 2019 and 6 January 2020.


Photos by Szilvia Csibi and Valter Berecz

Additional news

    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.

    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. 

    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.

    L'oca del Cairo, ossia Lo sposo deluso premieres on OperaVision

    •  

    The Hungarian State Opera returns to the platform of OperaVision on 21 June 2019 with a rarity: the recent world premiere production of L’oca del Cairo, ossia Lo sposo deluso created from two fragments by Mozart will be available for six months.

    Puccini's La Rondine for the first time at the Hungarian State Opera

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    As part of the Puccini festival, the Hungarian State Opera is giving Pussini's La Rondine its first Hungarian staging since it was first presented in this country in 1927 at the City Theatre, in a production directed by Ferenc Anger being mounted in partnership with the Hungarian Opera of Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca).

    Jenő Kenessey: The Gold and the Woman / István Örkény – Péter Tóth: The Tót Family

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    Operas in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English surtitles

    The Hungarian State Opera announces 2019/20 Christian Spirit Season

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    Having celebrated the Puccini anniversaries, with its new season the Hungarian State Opera will introduce the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress that is to take place in Budapest in 2020. The Opera announces its Christian Spirit Season as a monumental prologue to this significant event. At the Erkel Theatre and the newly opened Eiffel Art Studios, productions are to be staged that have either been inspired by biblical stories, or those that convey Christian ideas and values in more indirect ways, but also ones which debate them.

    Immortal Love: The Daegu Opera House at the Erkel Theatre

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    To celebrate thirty years of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and Hungary, the Daegu Opera House brings the opera Immortal Love by Cho Sungryong to Budapest. The production featuring spectacular video projections, traditional costumes and instruments can be seen at the Erkel Theatre on 11 April, 2019.

    OMG – the new Hungarian National Ballet show

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    Oh, my God! – is what the astonished audience might have said seeing George Balanchine’s and Harald Lander’s innovative choreographies when they were first performed. The OMG dance show of the Hungarian National Ballet pays tribute to the work of the two choreographers, evoking the era between 1947 and 1950 with three pieces from the oeuvres of the two masters.

    La Gioconda returns to the Erkel Theatre in a new production

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    As part of its season dedicated to Puccini’s Italy, the Hungarian State Opera presents La Gioconda, the most famous opera by Puccini’s master, Amilcare Ponchielli. The piece that is complex in plot and enthralling in music returns to the Erkel Theatre after a hiatus of twenty years in a new production staged by András Almási-Tóth.

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