Bartók Plus Opera Festival created a new path to the popularization of opera in 2012. A central element of the Artistic Concept announced that year was the new series establish-ing a new genre in community culture, which decided to perform immortal masterpieces of world operatic literature in free admission productions.“Let music belong to everyone!” – this often quoted phrase by Zoltán Kodály, composer, musicologist and world-renowned music educator stresses the power of music to de-velop human nature and, more specifically, the human soul. Bartók Plus Opera Festival proclaimed: “Let Opera Belong to Everyone!”
This genre where music, movement and the fine arts combine to create harmony should captivate a new layer of the audience for whom opera can become a living and lively work of art capable of influencing our contem-porary lives.
Our key concept was as follows: Let’s take opera out of the walls of the theatre and have it performed in a place where everyone can encounter it either willing or not: In the street, en plein air in public places. Let’s set up a performance under everybody’s eyes and make everyday people part of the creative process. Like in public rehearsals, let’s make it possi-ble for everyone to glimpse into the secrets of directing and the process of a performancebeing born.
