Opera's and musicals

A mester és Margarita - 2017

Levente Gyöngyösi

Levente Gyöngyösi (°1975) was born in Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania. In 1989, one month before the Romanian Revolution, he moved to Budapest, Hungary, at the age of 14. He studied at the Franz-Liszt Academy of Music.  He’s known for having written a cantata honouring the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, a Missa Lux et Origo, a Missa Vanitas vanitatum, a Saint Luke Passion, and four symphonies.

In 2016, Gyöngyösi started working on A mester és Margarita, an opera-musical version of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, blending elements of contemporary opera and light musical entertainment in a pleasant, clear style. That’s why, on June 24, 2017, at the world premiere of the piece, a rock band played along with a symphonic orchestra at the Bartók Plusz Operafestival at the National Theatre in Miskolc, Hungary. The libretto for the opera-musical has been written by the poet, translator and playwright Szabolcs Várady (°1943), based on a scenario written by Robert Bognár (°1947) and András Schlanger (°1961).

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Levente Gyöngyösi - A mester és Margarita

 

Levente Gyöngyösi

Technical details

Album
None

Artists
Gàbor Hollerung (Conductor)
The Budafok Dohnányi Ernő Symphony Orchestra
Safar Orsolya (Margarita)
Peter Balczó (The master, Jeshua Ha-Nozri)
Replace Chris (Woland)
Varga Donat (Ivan Bezdomny, Levi Matthew)
István Kovács (Pontius Pilate)
Zoltan Gavodi (Behemoth)
Kiss Tivadar (Koroviev)

Premiere
June 24, 2017
National Theatre, Miskolc, Hungary

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