Performance(s)
Venue and date:
MÜPA Palace of Arts, Budapest – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
2023. 04. 12., 19:30
Company:
Budafoki Dohnányi Zenekar
Budafoki Dohnányi Zenekar
Musical theatre

Scepticism and seeking ways – Based on The tragedy of man

Performance(s)
Venue and date:
MÜPA Palace of Arts, Budapest – Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
2023. 04. 12., 19:30
Company:
Budafoki Dohnányi Zenekar
Author:
Levente Gyöngyösi, Milton
Dramaturge: 
András Visky, Judit Ágnes Kiss
Composer: 
Levente Gyöngyösi, Richard Strauss
Director: 
Gábor Hollerung
Host: 
Sándor Lukács
Prose: 
Eszter Ónodi
Synopsis

The Sceptical Spirit

  • Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
  • Milton: Paradise Lost – excerpt
  • Levente Gyöngyösi: Tragœdia Temporis I – based on Imre Madách’s dramatic poem, The Tragedy of Man – world premiere

The two compositions on the programme of the Budafok Dohnanyi Orchestra concern themselves with the ways of the world; Richard Strauss turned to Nietzsche’s epochal work for inspiration, while Levente Gyöngyösi chose a national classic, Imre Madách’s piece. The latter is an award-winning piece of Müpa Budapest’s Composition Competiton 2020, which will have its world premiere now. The first of the planned four parts of Tragœdia Temporis, a large-scale staged oratorio, it deals with the creation, Adam and Eve's life in Paradise and their expulsion from Eden.

The work, whose libretto was written by Judit Ágnes Kiss based on the concept of Levente Gyöngyösi and András Visky, features a very important character who cannot be found in Madách’s drama: a child, an angelic person, who was already by the Lord’s side before Creation. “The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old,” reads the Book of Proverbs. “I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be.” Later it is said: “Then I was constantly at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence.” In Madách, the magnum opus has been finished when the play starts, while in this oratorio “the world comes to be as the prologue of the work, in the witnessing presence of the viewer, by the acquisition of language by the Child,” András Visky said.

Featuring:

  • Budafok Dohnanyi Orchestra
  • Cantemus Choral Institute Nyíregyháza (choirmaster: Soma Szabó)
  • Pro Musica Girls’ Choir (choirmaster: Dénes Szabó)

 

Cast
Eve - Gabriella Balga
Adam - Zoltán Megyesi
Child - Eszter Zemlényi
Lucifer - Csaba Sándor
The Lord - Krisztián Cser
Infos
Age limit: no restriction
Inviting Theater
MÜPA Palace of Arts, Budapest