FULL PEER GYNT (Grieg) Budapest 2017 Andrea Csereklyei, Lúcia Megyesi Schwartz, Domonkos Blazsó
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Peer Gynt
- Composer: Grieg Edvard
- Libretto: Henrik Ibsen
- Venue & Opera Company: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, müpa, Budapest, Hungary
- Recorded: November 5, 2017
- Type: Concert Semi-staged
- Singers: Andrea Csereklyei, Lúcia Megyesi Schwartz, Domonkos Blazsó
- Conductor: Gábor Hollerung
- Orchestra: Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok
- Chorus: Budapest Academic Choral Society
- Chorus Master: Coincidance Dance Ensemble
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: müpa
- Date Published: 20107
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: müpa FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Fairy-tale dance drama in two parts
In 1874, Ibsen asked Grieg to write incidental music for his soon-to-be-premièred drama, even identifying for him the exact scenes where he imagined the music would go and the kind of effect he wished to achieve with it. The composer dove into the work with great enthusiasm, keeping all of Ibsen’s requests in mind. Unconvinced that the music would be successful abroad, Grieg wrote two suites from eight of the passages, which remain his best-known and most popular works today. The drama has not really been performed together with the incidental music over the past century, and the full score was only published in the 1980s. In 2001, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra presented a “concert-friendly” version that used 21 of Grieg’s 26 movements, while leaving the narration of the drama’s plot to a narrator. This performance at Müpa Budapest offers something similar, with the story-telling provided by Péter Huszti, who is responsible for one of the most memorable portrayals of Peer Gynt in Hungarian theatrical history, while the members of the Coincidence dance ensemble act out the story.