FULL MEFISTOFELE Budapest 2022 Erwin Schrott, Sung Kyu Park, Létay Kiss Gabriella, Boncsér Gergely

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Mefistofele   
• Composer: Boito Arrigo  
• Libretto: Arrigo Boito    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Hungarian State Opera, Budapest, Hungary  
• Recorded: April 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Erwin Schrott, Sung Kyu Park, Létay Kiss Gabriella, Boncsér Gergely, Fürjes Anna Csenge
• Conductor: Antonello Allemandi  
• Orchestra: Hungarian State Opera Orchestra  
• Chorus: Hungarian State Opera Chorus  
• Choreographer: Venekei Marianna  
• Stage Director: Balázs Kovalik  
• Stage Designer: Csaba Antal  
• Costume Designer: Mari Benedek  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: M5  
• Date Published: 2022  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, othersubs  
• Video Recording from: mediaklikk     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Quote from opera.hu

Arrigo Boito is one of the most unique figures in the history of music, not least of all because of his work as a poet: he is responsible for some of the finest librettos ever written for opera (including, for example, Otello). Smitten with Wagner and metaphysics, it’s no surprise that he became enamoured with Goethe’s Faust, in particularly with the figure of the devil. Mefistofele is his sole completed opera for which he also composed the music. Balázs Kovalik’s thrilling production focuses on the mystery of the eternal duel between God against Satan, using powerful imagery to amplify Boito’s own personalised poetic treatment of the subject.

“The greatest mystery of all isn’t the fact that one is thrust into the infinity of creation and the cosmos, but rather that in one in captivity there, we become aware of thoughts powerful enough to make us doubt that our lives are not simply fleeting moments of nothingness after all.” (Béla Hamvas)