Today begins the Armel Opera Festival, the most significant musical event of the season in Budapest with the contribution of the Opera House of Vienna, Tbilisi, Budapest and Szeged. Armel is a co-event of the Café Budapest Contemporary Art Festival, about which we’ve reported earlier.
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This year, between October 9 and 17, opera fans can indulge in their passion in 3 locations of Budapest: Erkel Theater, Liszt Academy and Thalia Theatre. Five new productions will be presented at these sites: contemporary operas, world premieres and reinvented classics will be part of the showing. As the opera festival is also a competition, the final event is an Awards Ceremony on October 17th, where the best production, best performer and the audience-awarded play will be announced. The best opera will also be staged at the opera festival in Avignon on 3 June 2015, as it was in the previous three years.
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During this week there will be real curiosities to see: the National Theatre of Szeged presents „Embers” by Sándor Márai and a contemporary Figaro¿ based on Beaumarchais's work, in the interpretation of the Swiss Biel Solothurn Theater.
The Vienna Neue Oper acts with their play entitled Punch and Judy, which has been a huge logistical feat in transporting. Also, this event will be the premiere of a one-act play entitled Parody, the winner play of the first composer-competition of Armel Festival, which takes us to a chemistry class.
The fifth show, the premiere of Tbilisi Zakaria Paliashvili State Opera is a real speciality. Not only because Georgian operas are rarely seen in our country, but also because Mitridate is very rarely performed works of Mozart, which definitely worth to see.
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Those who can’t attend these special live performances don’t have to worry either: the German-French cultural channel, Arte Concert will broadcast the event this year again. Between the acts reporters appointed by the channel will report from the scenes, during the breaks they’ll reveal to the foreign audience where the festival is taking place, who are the singers and the history of the Opera houses for example.
