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31 May

Budapest’s Operetta Theater Favors Families Premieres 2024-2025 Season.

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The repertoire of the Budapest Operett Theater will be expanded next season with three new performances such as the Family season, Imre Kálmán’s popular grand operetta. In addition to Gyula Harangozó’s dance play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The play will be presented for the first time on February, 11 and 12. 2025. According to the director of the fairy-tale ballet, Snow Whte is the most successful Hungarian stage work abroad in recent decades, and has already been performed in many countries around the world. The operetta musical Cinderella by Péter Pejtsik and János Dénes Orbán (production on main stage between November, 15 and 16. 2025.) who also wrote The Magician of the Orfeum, will also come to life on the stage at the The Magician of the Orfeum, These fairy tale productions are very spectacular performance, which will appeal to both adults and children.

Just a minute in breif … The fairy tale Cinderella which is still ongoing across Europe, with more than 500 versions of the same story. Among the most famous the tale of Cindarella was recorded by the Brothers Grimm.

The version that most of us know today thanks to Disney , the 1950 Disney fairy tale. The story of Cinderella is, of course, much older than the Disney adaptation. According to the researchers, the origin of the story was born more than 2000 years ago. Namely, in the area of ​​Hellas, where BC 6-7. century, the basis of the tale may have been formed. However, it was recorded only in BC. It took place in the 1st century. Strabo’s heroine – who was a courtesan – was called Rhodopis, and she does not leave her shoes, but is taken by an eagle. The bird of prey flies it across the entire Mediterranean Sea and drops it into the lap of the Egyptian king. Of course, the monarch will not rest until he finds the footwear’s original owner, whom he marries and makes her the queen. However, the animated cartoon watered down the story quite a bit. From the 17th century in France Cinderella version was by Charles Perrault’s published in 1697. May seems for many a surprize the fact that the Chinese fairy tale was the first production every. The ancient version of the story can also be found still in China, where the protagonist is referred to as Ye Hsien. Cinderella.

Back to the press conference … This year’s season ends with success at the Operetta Theater, which goal to be an island of love and peace in a world where the crackling of guns never stops,” emphasized Kiss-B. Atilla Kossuth and Ferenc Liszt prize-winning opera singer, general director of the Operettszínház, at the Budapest press conference announcing performances in the following season. János Dénes Orbán said that love, fairy tales, humor and serious deep psychological questions also appear in the plays. The tunes of the production are based on folk music, the Csangó culture which was taken as a basis for the set, location and melodic world, emphasized Péter Pejtsik.

According to the Operetta Theater’s third new show is Imre Kálmán’s grand operetta A Circus Princess, staged by Zsolt Homonnay, on February 21. 2025., Zsolt Homonnay said that Imre Kálmán’s operetta includes dance, fun, humor and drama.

The general director also spoke about the fact that the operetta theater will continue to provide opportunities for young artists in the next season in the spirit of talent management and youth training. As part of this, the presentation of the graduating students of the Pest Broadway Studio of the Railway Music School will be staged, which will be a music-verse production called “Beyond the Maszat Mountain” – Túl a Maszat-hegyen by Gábor Presser and Dániel Varró, the play will be performed regularly next season.

Mentioning a couple of the next season, among others, Iván Szenes 100, The Magician of the Orfeum, Carmen, The Queen of the Tavern, The Country of Smiles, The Valiant János, Countess Marica, First Lieutenant Mária, Miska Magnás, Jekyll and Hyde. The Fiddler on the rooftop, performances of The Knight of La Mancha, The Count of Monte Cristo, Beauty and the Beast, and István the King, as well as The Nutcracker, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Sculptor, Poor Dzoni and Árnika, and Dangerous Relations production. In the next season, galas, coffee house discussions and many surprises await the audience, emphasized the director of the theater.

Riport and snaps by Aggie Reiter

24 Jan

Anne Frank … Diary … Parallel Lives … Hungary’s Cinema.

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New 90-minute documentary in original language with Hungarian subtitles

Anne Frank’s tragic story unfolds on a new screen from a new perspective Anne Frank: Parallel Lives, premieres in Hungary.
(If Anne had survived she would now be 90).

Anne Frank – Parallel Stories is an extraordinary documentary that evokes the darkest period in human history and the tragic fate of children abducted in an emergency.

The Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren is the narrator, adding a powerful presence, traces Anne Frank’s life through the pages of her diary by telling a story that has made the tragedy of the Holocaust known to readers all over the world.
The viewers are taken through the confines of Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and reads extracts from The Diary of Anne Frank. (Anneliese Marie “Anne” Frank a German girl of Jewish descent who was born in 1929 and died tragically at a young age, transported to an internal concentration camp. She died of typhoid there at the age of 15.)

The documentary holds intertwining stories with Holocaust survivors who were also sent to concentration camps at a young age of five and share their memories of the emergency. These are those five women who were also deported as children or adolescents to ghettos and then concentration camps and miraculously escaped. The intimate conversations reveal Arianna Szörenyi, an Italian writer of Hungarian descent, Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard of Polish descent living in France, Helga Weiss, who was deported from Prague to the Terezin ghetto and then to Auschwitz. The personal story of Andra and Tatiana Bucci, who were deported as young children between the ages of 4 and 6. In addition to the survivors, the film features several renowned experts, including Michael Berenbaum, an American university professor, rabbi, writer and filmmaker who specializes in studying the Holocaust. („The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored, persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 across Europe and North Africa. The height of the persecution and murder occurred during World War II. By the end of the war in 1945, the Germans and their collaborators had killed nearly two out of every three European Jews.”)

Italian film-makers Sabina Fedeli and Anna Migotto have taken the known facts of Anne’s life and set them against the stories of five other Jewish women, all in their 90s now, all of whom survived the Holocaust. One of them even met Anne. Their stories are a moving reminder of a generation that was all but destroyed by hatred.

Anne Frank: Parallel Stories needs to be revisited more than we might care to admit!

Nationwide will be shown in the Hungarian cinemas from January, 27. 2022., on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Premieres at Cinemas: MOM, Toldi, Pushkin, Tabán, Art + Cinema and the Urania National Film Theater can be seen in Budapest, as well as in many other locations across the country, including cities as: Szeged, Pécs, Szolnok, Szombathely, Miskolc, Kecskemét, Eger, Zalaegerszeg and Mosonmagyaróvár.

(The Diary of Anne Frank, first published by her father Otto in 1947, is one of the best-known books in the world, while the secret annex in Amsterdam where Anne, her parents, sister and four friends hid from the Nazis for two years is now a museum and one of Holland’s most visited tourist attractions. Over the years there have been books, exhibitions, films and even stage productions centered around Anne Frank’s diary, which she started writing soon after her 13th birthday in June 12, 1942. Anne wrote her thoughts and dreams in her diary, which was discovered by one of Otto’s friends, Miep Gies, soon after Anne was arrested and deported by the Nazis in August 1994. Gies kept it in the hope that one day she would be able to return it to Anne.)

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Update Aggie Reiter