I. The Message of Angels Music: J. S. Bach Costumes: Márta Pilinyi Soloists: Krisztina Loósz, Gábor Nyári, Renáta Szőke, István Issovits, Krisztián Kiss Ensemble: Marlene Boldizsár, Mariann Csernyi, Katalin Csizmadia, Éva Krenyác, Zita Márton, Szonja Stetina, Tamás Házi, Imre Hegedűs II. Afternoon of a Faun Music: Claude Debussy Featuring: Tamás Érdi – piano Costumes, sets: Krisztina Berzsenyi Conductor: István Issovits / Gábor Nyári Flautist: Katalin Csizmadia / Zita Márton Violinist...: Szonja Stetina / Mariann Csernyi Harpist: Renáta Szőke / Marlene Boldizsár III. Sheherezade Music: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Sets: László Székely Costumes: Márta Pilinyi Sheherezade: Szonja Stetina / Renáta Szőke Vizier: István Issovits Gold Slave: Gábor Nyári Choreography, director: Iván Markó, artistic director of the Hungarian Festival Ballet At the start of the third Millennium there is an unprecedented need to protect our dwelling place, the Earth and for a resurgence in the need for people to care for one another. The Message of Angels gives light and faith, which show us the path leading to one another and helps us recognise what we share in common. Afternoon of a Faun – choreographed by and starring Vaslav Nijinsky – caused a huge controversy at its première in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. The impressionist beauty of Debussy’s musical composition and the erotic creation of the choreographer scandalised, but also captivated the public. Rodin immediately asked Nijinsky to model for his work inspired by the Faun. A century later Iván Markó reworked the legendary dance, casting in its main role a conductor, whose baton is symbolic of the phallus. The three nymphs take the form of three beautiful female musicians, embodying feminine seduction. At the end of the work the conductor metamorphoses back into a “Faun”, the manifestation of male desire... Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade is a tale full of wantonness and barbarity, interwoven with the romance of eastern melodies. Iván Markó starts the production in the present day, and then makes a foray into the fantasy world of the past, before returning to project the underlying truth of the work into the present day. A lonely woman, arriving home from a ball, inebriated, experiences the loves and dramas of the story of Sheherazade. The vizier and the golden slave, who embody the two types of man, appear to her in her imagination. One symbolises wealth and violence, the other kindness and empathy, but also the defenselessness of man. Sheherazade longs for the freedom of love, and not the confinement of the harem. She incites the other women to also seek out their happiness. The story comes to a dramatic end. Awaking from her dream the heroine once again experiences the beauty and dangers of erotic desire.
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