FULL LYSISTRATE (Petrovics Emil) Budapest 1984 Mária Zempléni, Katalin Farkas, Dénes Gulyás

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: LYSISTRATE or Lüszisztraté   
• Composer: Petrovics Emil  
• Libretto: Aristophanes    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: TV-Studio, Budapest, Hungary  
• Recorded: 1984
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Mária Zempléni, Katalin Farkas, Dénes Gulyás
• Conductor: Emil Petrovics  
• Orchestra: Hungarian Allami Opera House Orchestra  
• Chorus: Debreceni Kodály Kórust  
• Chorus Master: Péter Erdei  
• Choreographer: Katalin Györgyfalvay, Éva Reinthaller  
• Stage Director: Gyula Maár  
• Stage Designer: Lóránt Kézdi  
• Costume Designer: Judit Schäffer  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: mediaklikk  
• Date Published: 1984  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Plot
  The opera does not have a plot that can be defined in the traditional sense. The loosely connected parts are as follows: Part I: There is a war and the war is the concern of women, the people pray for peace, then they argue about the war, the women swear not to live a married life with their husbands until they end the war, the men suffer miserably, a fight breaks out in front of the citadel. Part II: The women occupy the citadel. They increasingly feel the lack of men. They pray for a man, then they recite a couplet about the female gender. Part III: The men and women reconcile, the war is finally over. Lysistrata enters triumphantly.

  Emil Petrovic’s concert opera is based on Aristophanes’ comedy of the same name and is set in ancient Greece. The women of Athens are fed up with the constant warfare and, led by Lysistrates, decide to force their husbands to make peace. They close the gates of the citadel to the men returning from the war. At first, the men reject the women’s demands, but they miss home and female tenderness more and more. Lysistrates encourages the women to persevere, and in the end the men fulfill their wish: they make peace. In the end, the women and men celebrate peace and Lysistrate together.

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