Contemporary composer Levente Gyöngyösi may already be familiar to the audience from his work in opera: in 2005 the Opera premiered his first work in the genre, The Stork Caliph. As a source for his most recent work, the composer has taken one of the most important novels of 20th century literature, which he composed into a vocal-symphonic musical for soloists and chorus and employing instruments used in popular music. "In principal, this genre works when it entertains. But I have also chosen a weighty literary subject. On the popular side, I am 'making the piece work', while at the same time putting all of my skill and craftsmanship into the symphonic and electronic arrangement.”
Cast
- Conductor
- Gábor Hollerung
- Woland
- Krisztián Cser / Péter Kálmán
- The Master / Yeshua
- Péter Balczó / Boldizsár László
- Margarita
- Orsolya Sáfár
- Professor Stravinsky / Pontius Pilate
- Bence Pataki / István Kovács
- Berlioz / Caiaphas
- András Hábetler
- Bezdomny / Levi Matvei
- Donát Varga / Gergely Ujvári
- Fagotto
- Tivadar Kiss
- Hella
- Ildikó Szakács
- Behemoth
- Gavodi Zoltán
- Annushka / Slave girl
- Lili Kocsis
- Latunsky / Judas
- Jenő Dékán
- Policeman / Afranius
- András Kőrösi
- Head nurse / Ratslayer, a centurion
- András Kiss
- Bosoi, the janitor
- Bence Gulyás
- Nurse at the mental hospital
- Éva Várhelyi
- Speaker
- Balázs Csémy
- First nurse / Jimmy, a drunken vampire from New York
- Attila Varga-Tóth univ. stud.
- Second nurse / John, a drunken vampire from New York
- Boldizsár Zajkás univ. stud.
- First man / Drunken man / Monsierur Guillotine
- Richárd Hoffmann
- Second man / Vinous voice / An important comrade / Nero, the emperor
- Balázs Papp univ. stud.
- Young woman at the vaudeville theater / Lucrezia Borgia
- Gabriella Fenyvesi univ. stud.
- Cleaning woman
- Alexandra Ruszó
- Featuring the Hungarian Circus and Variety Show Artists
- Eszter Bako / Márk Halasi / Linett Kalántai / Zsuzsanna Lakatos / Kira Szabó / Zsolt Szlavkovszki / Noémi Takács / Laura Tomasovszky
- Featuring the Students of the Hungarian Dance Academy
- Eszter Asbolt / Boglárka Bársony / Zsombor Bodó / Liza Csóka / Kristóf Deák / Haanpaa Phet Samurai / Boglárka Holecz / Attila Kercsó / Gábor Kindl / Edmond Kisbakonyi / Mátyás Kovács / Hanna Lentulai / Dorina Mayer / Ábel Mezei / Gergő Nyári / Luca Pecz Péli / Karina Pintér / János Suba / Viktória Tran / Zsófia Tuza
Credits
- Libretto based on the script by Róbert Bognár and András Schlanger
- Várady Szabolcs
- Director
- Szente Vajk
- Set and costume designer
- Kentaur
- Lighting designer
- János Madarász 'Madár'
- Choreographer
- Turi Lajos Péter
- English surtitles
- Arthur Roger Crane
- Dramaturg
- Eszter Orbán
- Chorus director
- Gábor Csiki
- Premiere
- Feb. 7, 2020