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classical music, opera, theatre
Staatskapelle Weimar
22 October 2023, Sunday
5 pm - 7:30 pm
one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Produced by Müpa Budapest
Liszt Fest

Liszt

Weimars Volkslied (Weimar Folk Song)

Liszt

Dante Symphony

interval

Liszt

Sardanapalo - Hungarian premiere

130 years after the death of a composer, rarely are such works discovered that substantially alter our view of the oeuvre. Ferenc Liszt was a unique composer in this regard as well: the surviving first act of the opera he based on Byron's tragedy was first performed in Weimar in 2018.
The manuscript of the composition was found at Weimar's Goethe and Schiller Archive, and David Trippett, a musicologist at the University of Cambridge, thinks the music of Sardanapalo is breath-taking. It reflects the influence of Bellini, Meyerbeer and Wagner, and it combines an Italian lyricism with Liszt's unmistakably original harmonic vocabulary. Trippett reconstructed the piece from the manuscript, and also wrote an orchestration for it, and this is the version that will be performed in Budapest.
In the first half of their concert, Staatskapelle Weimar will perform one of Liszt's most important compositions for large orchestra, the Dante Symphony. Standing on the podium will be a luminary of international opera, Kirill Karabits, the principal conductor of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

The performance will be preceded from 6.00 pm by an introductory presentation in Hungarian by musicologist Gergely Fazekas entitled Prologue in the Auditorium, where concert ticket holders will be invited to get to know the performing musicians and the works to be performed more closely. Admission to the programme is subject to prior registration on our website.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest

Conductor:

Kirill Karabits

Cast:

Sardanapalo, King of Assyria Airam Hernández
Mirra, an Ionian slavegirl Joyce El-Khoury
Beleso, a priest Oleksandr Pushniak

Featuring:

Staatskapelle Weimar
Women's Choir of the Hungarian National Choir (choirmaster: Csaba Somos)
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