Hungarian State Opera House
Brings up the “Queen of Sheba”
By Hungarian Jewish composer Karl Goldmark
Concert performance with over 180 people on stage
This is an opportunity for the Israeli audience to experience the most famous work of the renowned composer – which has never been performed in Israel.
The Hungarian State Opera House, which has been operating since 1884, will make its first visit to Israel in September with “The Queen of Sheba,” an opera that has never been performed in Israel – the immortal work of the Hungarian Jewish composer Karl Goldmark, to a libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal.
The opera, conducted by Balázs Kocsár, will be performed in a concert performance with the participation of over 100 people on stage: the leading soloists of the opera house, the orchestra and the choir. This is an opportunity for the Israeli audience to experience the most famous work of the renowned Hungarian composer whose life (1830-1915) overlaps the transition from the Romantic period to the modern period in music, but whose music is still firmly rooted in Romanticism.
“The Queen of Sheba” combines traditions of traditional French opera and early Romantic German opera and is characterized by the sophistication of the great composer Karl Goldmark, who incorporated strong oriental elements.
The opera has great relevance for our time. All the characters are given individual personalities, and many of their feelings and actions are typical of the 19th century. However, the most important message for our time is that in this day and age, anyone can lose themselves when the things that once supported us become unstable, and ideas, including religion, that we once relied on, are replaced by the goods of a consumer society that seduce us as idols did in earlier times.
Featuring:
Queen of Sheba: Erica Gale
Assad: Laszlo Boldizhar
Shulamit: Esther Shumagi
King Solomon: Zoltan Kalman
High Priest: András Flardy
Ashtoreth: Katelyn Turaki
Husband Hanan: Robert Rezniak
Temple Guardian: Franz Czerhelmi
