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New Year Concert in Celebration
of a New Festival in the Art Palace
Bartók Béla National Concert Hall
January 5, 2007 7:30 pm
Festival – Foundation
An exceptional gala concert welcomes those ambitious entrepreneurs who are interested in classical music and opera. Merely by purchasing ticket to this concert, our audience becomes foundational members of a new and unique opera festival, which starts its operation with the support of the most prestigious classical music television channel of the world. Not only the originality of the concept of the festival, which will be announced on the concert for the first time, 6 months earlier than its official press conference, makes this festival extraordinary. The financing of the festival is also unusual and surely meets spirit of our age: the festival operates exclusively on a commercial base, it does not ask for and does not accept public money, it is completely subsidized by the audience and the private sphere, as, in our view, this is the most – and the only – justified market operation in our days.
Program:
Part 1:
Der Schauspieldirektor (The Theatre Director) by Mozart
Hungarian text reworked by: Judit Góczán
Cast:
Buff: András Hábetler
Madame Hertz (Mrs. Heart): Ibolya Vigh
Monsieur Vogelsang (Sir Birdsing): István Kovácsházi
Mademoiselle Silberklang (Miss Silbervoice): Ingrid Kertesi
The Theatre Director: Gyula Bodrogi
Directed by Gyula Bodrogi
Part 2:
Excerpts from the works of Verdi, Puccini and Mozart
Performed by
András Hábetler
Ingrid Kertesi
István Kovácsházi
Ibolya Vigh
Hungarian Symphonic Orchestra
Conductor: Philippe de Chalendar
Host: Gabriella Jakupcsek
Philippe de Chalendar, conductor
French-Hungarian conductor. De Chalendar won the jury’s special prize at the conductor competition in the city of Besançon. Following this event, de Chalendar was commissioned to conduct the most significant French orchestras. Between 1995 and 2000 he was the resident Assistant conductor of the National Opera House in Paris. In 2001, de Chalendar moved to Hungary, where he has regularly conducted Hungarian orchestras since then. In 2004-2005, he was appointed as the music director of the Debrecen Csokonai Theatre, and since 2002, de Chalendar has been the musical director of the National Theatre in Miskolc.
Gyula Bodrogi
One of the most popular and acknowledged actors and directors in Hungary. Bodrogi started his career in the József Attila Theatre, and then he was the director of the Vidám Színpad for two decades. Since 2003, Bodrogi has been the member of the National Theatre. Bodrogi’s artistic work was awarded by several prestigious awards, such as the Kossuth Award and the Exceptional Artist Award, among many other state recognitions. Currently, the audience can see Bodrogi in the lead role of numerous plays - including Willy Loman in the Death of a Salesman, Turai in the Play's the Thing and Ice King in the Boatman in the Moon. Bodrogi debuts as an opera director in this gala.
