2024. April 23. Tuesday
National Theatre Historical Museum and Institute - Budapest
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Address: 1013, Budapest Krisztina körút 57.
Phone number: (1) 375-1184
E-mail: oszmi@szinhaziintezet.hu
Opening hours: Mon, Wed-16
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2015.11.17. - 2016.03.31.
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It has been exactly one hundred years since the premiere of the The Csárdás Princess by Imre Kálmán. The first show of Die Csárdásfürstin took place at the Johann Strauss Theater on November 17, 1915. One year later, on November 3, 1916, the operetta was also staged in Budapest at the Király Theatre. Many of the theatres in Europe rushed to perform the work and they achieved fantastic success in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Leipzig, Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Magdeburg, but also in the countries at war with the Monarchy: at Moscow, Saint Petersburg, performed with the title Sylvia, while the show ran also in New York, with the title The Riviera Girl.
Imre Kálmán’s most famous work is still regularly staged in Hungary and abroad. Barely had the noises of the war settled when the well-known Kálmán melodies filled the air at the Operetta Theatre of the Capital (Fővárosi Operettszínház) on April 8, 1945. November 12, 1954 is a famous landmark in the performance history of operetta.
The reworked piece was staged in the direction of Miklós Szinetár, starring Hanna Honthy, Marika Németh, Madga Gyenes, Árpád Baksay, Róbert Rátonyi and Kamill Feleki. This version prevailed for a long time until in 2002 a new version was made at the Budapest Operetta Theatre, directed by Gábor Kerényi Miklós, with a new libretto by István Kálai and Kerényi.
Visitors of the exhibition can not only look at the abundant documentation of these two hallmark productions, but they can also inform about nearly all of the Hungarian performances of The Csárdás Princess. Thanks to the advancements in digital technology, visitors can watch the performance of the most remarkable Sylvias, Edvins, Bónis, Cecilias, Anhiltes, Mrs Feris and Mishkas. Heightened value is given to the exhibit by the fact that it also displays materials on the very first staging from the collections of the Theatre Museum in Austria.
Graphic design: Gyula Kőfaragó
Exhibition design: György Selmeczi and Győző Herédi
The exhibition presenting the 100 years of The Csárdás Princess was realized as a cooperative project between the Budapest Operetta Theatre and the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute
Imre Kálmán’s most famous work is still regularly staged in Hungary and abroad. Barely had the noises of the war settled when the well-known Kálmán melodies filled the air at the Operetta Theatre of the Capital (Fővárosi Operettszínház) on April 8, 1945. November 12, 1954 is a famous landmark in the performance history of operetta.
The reworked piece was staged in the direction of Miklós Szinetár, starring Hanna Honthy, Marika Németh, Madga Gyenes, Árpád Baksay, Róbert Rátonyi and Kamill Feleki. This version prevailed for a long time until in 2002 a new version was made at the Budapest Operetta Theatre, directed by Gábor Kerényi Miklós, with a new libretto by István Kálai and Kerényi.
Visitors of the exhibition can not only look at the abundant documentation of these two hallmark productions, but they can also inform about nearly all of the Hungarian performances of The Csárdás Princess. Thanks to the advancements in digital technology, visitors can watch the performance of the most remarkable Sylvias, Edvins, Bónis, Cecilias, Anhiltes, Mrs Feris and Mishkas. Heightened value is given to the exhibit by the fact that it also displays materials on the very first staging from the collections of the Theatre Museum in Austria.
Graphic design: Gyula Kőfaragó
Exhibition design: György Selmeczi and Győző Herédi
The exhibition presenting the 100 years of The Csárdás Princess was realized as a cooperative project between the Budapest Operetta Theatre and the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute
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