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Stage director

Michal Znaniecki

Set designer

Luigi Scoglio

Costume designer

Magdalena Dabrowska

Lighting designer

Bogumił Palewicz

Choreographer

Zsolt Juhász

Dramaturge

Judit Kenesey

Chorus master

Gábor Csiki

Singer

Bass

Csaba Sándor

Lover

Tenor

Gergely Boncsér

Young man

Mezzo-soprano

Bernadett Wiedemann

Neighbour

The mother of the young man

Soprano

Kinga Kriszta

Young girl

Baritone

Attila Erdös

The flea

Andrea Meláth

The mother of the girl

Conductor

Máté Hámori

Video designer

Contralto

Atala Schöck

Housewife

Hungarian State Opera

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Choir of the Hungarian State Opera

Orchestra

Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

Ballet

Hungarian Dance Universtiy

Pál “Szalonna” and his band

Lusine Sahakyan

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Edit Marosi

Hungarian

Székely Fonó -  (Szekely Spinnery)

Budapest

Hungary

Hungarian State Opera House

Székely Fonó Kodály

Public

Szekely Spinnery

English

Approved

Életképek magyar nyelven, magyar és angol felirattalFolk scenes in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English surtitlesRendező I Director Michał Znaniecki Díszlet...

“A people can best be known through their folk songs,” claimed Zoltán Kodály, one of the crucial proponents of Hungarian music, whose main ambition as a composer, collector of folk songs and music teacher was to inculcate a love for Hungarian folk song and to cultivate a knowledgeable audience.
The Spinning Room is the epitome of Kodály's efforts. When the Opera commissioned a full-length version of the work from the composer in 1931, it wasn't an opera that Kodály intended to write – instead his aim was to re-discover the Hungarian folk song and relay its simple dramatic power.
Kodály was of Polish extraction on his mother's side. And now, breaking with convention, audiences will get the chance to see through the eyes of a Polish director, Michał Znaniecki, how a foreign artist perceives this quintessentially Hungarian work.

Director
Michał Znaniecki
Set designer
Luigi Scoglio
Assistant to the set designer
Alejandro Contreras Cortés
Costume designer
Magdalena Dabrowska
Animation and lighting designer
Bogumił Palewicz
Choreographer
Zsolt Juhász
Assistant to the choreographer
Edit Marosi
Dramaturg
Judit Kenesey
English subtitles
Elisabeth M. Lockwood
Chorus director
Gábor Csiki

Conductor
Ádám Medveczky
Máté Hámori
The lady of the house
N.N.
Atala Schöck
Her suitor
Csaba Sándor
A young man
Gergely Boncsér
Neighbour/The mother of the young man
Bernadett Wiedemann
A girl
Kinga Kriszta
The flea
Attila Erdős
The mother of the girl
Andrea Meláth
Featuring the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and Chorus, István Pál “Szalonna” and his band, as well as pupils of the Hungarian Dance Universtiy

Szekely Spinnery by Kodály, From (2024/2024), Directed by Michal Znaniecki,, Conductor Máté Hámori, Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest, Hungary

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