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classical music, opera, theatre
Bernstein: A Quiet Place
Performance by Neue Oper Wien
10 April 2018, Tuesday
5 pm - 6:45 pm
Festival Theatre
Produced by Müpa Budapest
Budapest Spring Festival

Bernstein

A Quiet Place - Opera in three acts, in English, with Hungarian surtitle

The 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth is celebrated in 2018. The Neue Oper Wien, which is committed to contemporary opera (bringing Péter Eötvös's Lilith to Budapest the last time), presents Bernstein's last work for the stage. Written between 1980-1983, A Quiet Place is a sequel to Trouble in Tahiti, which he created three decades earlier. Both pieces offer an ironic view of the American dream - the one that is pursued not only in America.

The dramaturgy of the production and the arrangement for a chamber ensemble is the work of Garth Edwin Sunderland, a Bernstein specialist. This version, which adheres to the spirit of the original but has a slightly different structure, was premiered by the Ensemble Modern in 2013, at the Vienna Konzerthaus, under the baton of Kent Nagano.

An event jointly organized with Neue Oper Wien.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

The performance is not recommended for audiences under the age of 16.

Presented by: Budapest Spring Festival

Conductor:

Walter Kobéra

Cast:

Sam Steven Scheschareg
Dede Katrin Targo
Junior Dániel Foki
François Nathan Haller
Funeral director Markus Miesenberger
Bill Georg Klimbacher
Susie Rebecca Blanz
Analyst Savva Tikhonov
Doc Johannes Schwendinger
Mrs. Doc Veronika Dünser

Featuring:

soloists of Wiener Kammerchor
UMZE Chamber Ensemble

Creators:

libretto Stephen Wadsworth
set, costumes Christian Tabakoff
lighting Norbert Chmel
vocal coach Antanina Kalechyts
director Philipp M. Krenn
libretto adaptation, reduced orchestration Garth Edwin Sunderland
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