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The Budapest Festival Orchestra presents Bart\u00f3k’s dark and disquieting opera, steeped in Hungarian folk tradition. The combination of this ‘ultra-charismatic’ orchestra and music director Iv\u00e1n Fischer has been described by The Guardian as ‘intoxicating’.<\/p>\n
Bart\u00f3k had a lifetime devotion to folk music and hoped that his Hungarian Peasant Songs, based on authentic Hungarian melodies and orchestrated in 1933, would open up these pretty folk melodies to a wider audience.<\/p>\n
Written in Budapest, Bart\u00f3k’s single opera is a bloodthirsty fairytale with strong psychological and erotic undertones. Featuring just two characters, it’s arresting performed in concert.<\/p>\n
Bluebeard brings his new wife Judith home to his castle. She asks him to let light into the gloomy hall by opening its seven doors and discovers a series of troubling mysteries, including a torture chamber and Bluebeard’s treasure horde, dripping with gore. But what will happen when she opens the seventh door?<\/p>\n
‘A real treat. Fischer conducted it with infectious joy.’ PERFORMERS:<\/strong><\/span> REPERTOIRE:<\/span><\/strong> VENUE:<\/strong><\/span> See further details in our Event Calendar<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Budapest Festival Orchestra presents Bart\u00f3k’s dark and disquieting opera, steeped in Hungarian folk tradition. The combination of this ‘ultra-charismatic’ orchestra and music director Iv\u00e1n Fischer has been described byMore…A Budapest Fesztiv\u00e1lzenekar Londonban<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martasebestyen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martasebestyen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martasebestyen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martasebestyen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martasebestyen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martasebestyen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martasebestyen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martasebestyen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martasebestyen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(The Guardian on Budapest Festival Orchestra’s The Magic Flute in 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBudapest Festival Orchestra
\nIv\u00e1n Fischer conductor
\nM\u00e1rta Sebesty\u00e9n folk singer
\nIldik\u00f3 Koml\u00f3si mezzo-soprano, Judith
\nKriszti\u00e1n Cser bass, Bluebeard<\/p>\n
\nBart\u00f3k: Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz.100 for orchestra
\n-: interspersed with unaccompanied traditional songs
\ninterval
\nBart\u00f3k: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle – opera in 1 act
\n-: (concert performance in Hungarian with English surtitles)<\/p>\n
\nRoyal Festival Hall<\/p>\n