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12 October 2025 – Golden Age: Wagner
Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes including one interval
Language: German
Surtitle: Hungarian, English, German
In the BMW season, there is room for thematic concerts that pay tribute to composers of the season. First in the series, the OPERA Orchestra presents different facets of Wagner, with a programme ranging from an overture to a comic opera and masterpieces of Lieder to the best-known chapter of his oeuvre.
General cast
Conductor: Péter Halász
Siegmund: István Kovácsházi
Sieglinde: Eszter Sümegi
Hunding: Krisztián Cser
Wesendonck Lieder: Andrea Szántó
The Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Programme
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – overture
Wesendonck Lieder
Die Walküre – Act I
1 January 2026 and 17 January 2026 – Golden Age: Beethoven
Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes including one interval
Language: German
Surtitle: Hungarian, English, German
For the 13th time, the performance of the famous Symphony No. 9 will dominate the OPERA’s New Year celebrations. Every year, a different brilliant composer is selected to direct the masterpiece, and there are no other ensembles in Hungary than the OPERA Orchestra and Chorus who are better acquainted with this work perfect to underscore the hope of a new year.
General cast
Conductor: Martin Rajna
Soprano: Polina Pasztircsák
Alto: Atala Schöck
Tenor: István Kovácsházi
Bass: Krisztián Cser
Featuring the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and Choir
Programme
Beethoven: König Stephan – overture
Kodály: Hymn to King Stephen
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
1 February 2026 – Golden Age: Mozart
Running time: 2 hours including one interval
Language: German
Surtitle: Hungarian, English, German
The symphonic works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart… The composer’s music is filled with arias, even when written for instruments. Alongside famous and lesser-known opera excerpts, the OPERA Orchestra and outstanding soloists, will perform a concerto for winds as well as a symphony from Mozart’s mature period.
General cast
Conductor: Péter Halász
Featuring the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Programme
Lo sposo deluso – overture and quartet
Die Zauberflöte – priests’ chorus
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major for Winds, K. 297b
Symphony No. 35 (“Haffner Symphony”), K. 385
15 February 2026 – Golden Age: Erkel (Public opera recording)
Running time: 3 hours without intervals
Language: Hungarian
Surtitle: Hungarian, English
As part of the thematic programme series Saint Stephen 2025, the OPERA paid tribute to the founder of Hungary in many ways. As a kind of encore, Ferenc Erkel’s final stage work, originally intended for the inauguration of the Opera House, is to be recorded at a public performance in early 2026.
General cast
Conductor: István Dénes
Stephen I: N. N.
Gisela: Mária Farkasréti
Prince Emeric: Adorján Pataki
Péter: Csaba Szegedi
Vazul: Csaba Sándor
Sebős: Gergely Ujvári
Crescimira: Kinga Kriszta
Jóva: Anna Csenge Fürjes
Zolna: Zsuzsanna Kapi
Csanád: Bence Pataki
Barang: Norbert Balázs
Gellért: Géza Gábor
Asztrik: András Kiss
Venczelin: Attila Dobák
Pázmán: Botond Pál (opera studio)
Hunt: N. N.
Featuring the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Programme
Erkel: King Stephen
Program and cast
Hungarian State Opera
STANDING ROOM TICKETS - INFORMATION IN CASE OF A FULL HOUSE!
If all the seats are sold out for the selected time, but you still want to see the production on that day, 84 of the extremely affordable standing seats will be sold at the theatre, 2 hours before the start of the performance, with which you can visit the gallery on the 3rd floor. Tickets can be purchased at the ticket office of the Budapest Opera House. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the stage can only be seen to a limited extent from the standing places and the side seats, but at the same time, following the performance is also supported by television broadcasting on the spot.
The Opera House is not only one of the most significant art relic of Budapest, but the symbol of the Hungarian operatic tradition of more than three hundred years as well. The long-awaited moment in Hungarian opera life arrived on September 27, 1884, when, in the presence of Franz Joseph I. the Opera House was opened amid great pomp and ceremony. The event, however, erupted into a small scandal - the curious crowd broke into the entrance hall and overran the security guards in order to catch a glimpse of the splendid Palace on Sugar út. Designed by Mikós Ybl, a major figure of 19th century Hungarian architecture, the construction lived up to the highest expectations. Ornamentation included paintings and sculptures by leading figures of Hungarian art of the time: Károly Lotz, Bertalan Székely, Mór Than and Alajos Stróbl. The great bronze chandelier from Mainz and the stage machinery moda by the Asphaleia company of Vienna were both considered as cutting-edge technology at that time.
Many important artists were guests here including Gustav Mahler, the composer who was director in Budapest from 1887 to 1891. He founded the international prestige of the institution, performing Wagner operas as well as Magcagni’ Cavalleria Rusticana. The Hungarian State Opera has always maintained high professional standards, inviting international stars like Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Monserrat Caballé, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, José Cura, Thomas Hampson and Juan Diego Flórez to perform on its stage. The Hungarian cast include outstanding and renowed artists like Éva Marton, Ilona Tokody, Andrea Rost, Dénes Gulyás, Attila Fekete and Gábor Bretz.
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