Blood Wedding

Sándor Szokolay's first full-length opera was premiered at the Opera House in 1964, and was then quickly added to the programmes of several European theatres; since then it has been presented at more than 20 venues. The piece reworks Federico García Lorca's Bodas de sangre, considered the author's chef d'ouevre.
The expressive musical style that with elemental force presents the passionate love and the tragic destiny it brings and Lorca's profound and rich emotional world makes Szokolay's work one of the most important creative works in 20th century Hungarian opera literature.

General cast:

Conductor: Péter Oberfrank
Mother: Annamária Kovács
Fiancé: Dániel Vadász
Neighbour: Éva Balatoni
Leonardo: Károly Szemerédy
Wife: Eszter Wierdl
Mother-in-law: Kornélia Bakos
Fiancée: Szilvia Rálik
Servant: Júlia Vajda
Father: László Szvétek
Best man: Ferenc Cserhalmi
First woodcutter: Zoltán Bátki Fazekas
Second woodcutter: András Hábetler
Third woodcutter: Balázs Hantos
Moon: Gergely Boncsér
Death: Annamária Kovács

Credits:

Libretto based on the tragedy of Federico García Lorca, after the translation of Gyula Illyés: Sándor Szokolay
Chorus Director: Kálmán Strausz