Reviews – 2014
Review of the Bartók-evening on the opening day of the Opera Festival. Until this year Bluebeard’s castle has always been billed at the ’Bartók + Opera Festival’. However, this year the tradition is not continuing, and Bartók’s only opera is not going to be performed. Conductor Gergely Kesselyák, the director of the Festival said the following about it earlier: ’it is good to have a year of rest now’. True, that during the years Bluebeard’s castle has already been performed here in several different productions with many different casts. Instead of another version now the focus is on Bartók’s orchestral works. In the Opening concert we listened to three works from Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 and two other, rarely performed pieces: Kossuth Symphony and the I. Orchestral suite.
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