Or the Legend of the Sleeper Awoken – opera in two parts, three acts in Italian, with Hungarian surtitles
Although the composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari originally gained fame for his successful comic operas, Sly is a different kind of story: after starting as a comedy, it transforms into a sorrowful tragedy based on the induction scenes in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; the music, however, bears the hallmarks of his earlier verismo operas, with strong parallels to Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann as well.
This co-production by the Erkel Theatre and the National Theatre of Szeged was staged by director Pál Göttinger.