International Opera Festival Miskolc

Performed in Miskolc, but with a reputation that reaches far afield! As a sponsor of the International Opera Festival Miskolc, which takes place at an increasing number of venues every year, attracting high numbers of visitors, we are now part of a world-class cultural event.

In 2001, the Opera Festival was established with the purpose of putting Miskolc and the region firmly on the international cultural map.

The Festival's main venue is the Miskolc National Theatre with its five stages. However the Festival programme quickly outgrew the building, and a number of other venues in the town and surrounding countryside have become involved, to accommodate various Festival events and immerse themselves in the sound of music.

A special event in Central & Eastern Europe

This significant parade of opera in Central & Eastern Europe not only attracts highly-respected representatives and talent from neighbouring countries, but a growing number of well-known stars from La Scala, the Met, and the Bolshoi. In addition, the Festival has become the most comprehensive showplace of  Bartók´s work in the world, with all his stage works being performed by exciting Hungarian and visiting artistes, often in their own productions.

 

„Bartók + Vienna 2009”

This is the 9th „Bartók + …” International Opera Festival in Miskolc.The programme of the „Bartók + Vienna 2009” International Opera Festival Miskolc (10-21 June 2009) will offer to the audience works of composers that are related to the city of Vienna, besides the traditional Bartók repertoire.

In addition to the compositions of the classical composers, Mozart, Beethoven, Richard Strauss and Schubert we pay special attention to present the works of Joseph Haydn. Miskolc joins the International Haydn Year 2009, with a selection from the cross section of his oeuvre, when the entire world commemorates the master of the First Viennese School, on the bicentennial anniversary of his death.

We also present not only the classic values but the 20th century Austrian music as well. This era will be foreshown through pieces of the Bartók contemporaries: Berg, Schönberg and Ullmann.

The programme of the 2009 festival pays extra attention to the young ones. We offer more tale and puppet performances, opera and classical music productions than usual to the next music-loving, opera-friendly generation, the children.