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Christmas Concert
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What could be a more beautiful sounding gift one week before Christmas than a three-part oratorio that is unknown in Hungary and recalls a less well documented part of Jesus’s life, the Redeemer’s childhood? Hector Belioz worked on the compo-sition from 1850 to 1854 and the opus deals with the episode of Jesus’s life when the holy family fled to Egypt. The concert by the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir will be conducted by György Vashegyi, a man committed to preserving the riches of French musical culture, while the soloists for L’enfance du Christ will be Cyrille Dubois, Anna Dowsley and Thomas Dolié.
Program and cast
The Hungarian National Philharmonic’s Holiday Concert
Conductor: György Vashegyi
Cast:
Le Récitant/Le Centurion: Cyrille Dubois
La vierge Marie: Anna Dowsley
Joseph/Polydorus: Lysandre Châlon
Hérode/Le Père de famille: Thomas Dolié
Featuring:
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Hungarian National Choir (choirmaster: Csaba Somos)
Palace of Arts Müpa Budapest
When Müpa Budapest, Hungary and its capital's new cultural hub, opened in 2005, it was built to represent more than 100 years of Hungarian cultural history. As a conglomeration of cultural venues, the building has no precedent in 20th century Hungarian architecture and has no peers in the whole of Central Europe.
The creators of this ambitious project, the Trigránit Development Corporation, prime contractor Arcadom Construction and the Zoboki, Demeter and Partners Architectural Office, were driven by the desire to create a new European cultural citadel as part of the new Millennium City Centre complex along the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Danube waterfront. The result is a facility whose construction quality, appearance, functionality and 21st century technological infrastructure makes it ideally suited to productions of the highest standard. The building is also highly versatile and equipped to host performances of any genre and almost any scale.
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