Following Salzburg, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Paris, Claus Guth’s critically acclaimed 2008 adaptation of Don Giovanni is presented at the Opera House. The title role of this provocative, youthful production (sold out weeks before the 2 March 2024 Budapest premiere) is performed by Gábor Bretz and Károly Szemerédy, the ensembles of the Hungarian State Opera are conducted by principal conductor Martin Rajna.
Don Juan, the arrogant womanizer who defies the heavens, has inspired authors in various art forms for centuries. His figure was first established by the 17th-century Spanish playwright Tirso de Molina, but his story was also written by Molière, whose play was adapted as ballet music by Gluck a hundred years later. (The contemporary French choreographer Thierry Malandain’s choreography to Gluck’s music was presented by the Hungarian National Ballet in 2021.) The first 18th-century opera adaptation and the Prague performances of Vincenzo Righini’s 1776 tragicomedy also contributed to Mozart...
Don Juan, the arrogant womanizer who defies the heavens, has inspired authors in various art forms for centuries. His figure was first established by the 17th-century Spanish playwright Tirso de Molina, but his story was also written by Molière, whose play was adapted as ballet music by Gluck a hundred years later. (The contemporary French choreographer Thierry Malandain’s choreography to Gluck’s music was presented by the Hungarian National Ballet in 2021.) The first 18th-century opera adaptation and the Prague performances of Vincenzo Righini’s 1776 tragicomedy also contributed to Mozart...
- 2/20/2024
- by Music MCM
- Martin Cid Music
Highlights of the forthcoming productions at the National Theatre, announced today by Nicholas Hytner, include new plays by Alan Bennett, Stephen Beresford, Lisa DAmour, James Graham and Lucy Prebble. There will be adaptations of Mark Haddons The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Simon Stephens, and of The Count of Monte Cristo by Richard Bean. Enda Walshs Misterman receives its London premiere classic revivals include Polly Findlays production of Sophocles Antigone, Shakespeares Timon of Athens directed by Nicholas Hytner, Bijan Sheibanis staging of Damned for Despair by Tirso de Molina, and Nadia Falls production of Bernard Shaws The Doctors Dilemma.
- 1/25/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
When Danny Boyle snuck his new film "127 Hours" into the Telluride Film Festival last week it was as a heartfelt thank you to the festival for the early support it gave "Slumdog Milionaire" two years before. Audiences turned out to be just as grateful. The survival drama stars James Franco as mountaineer Aron Ralston, who managed to free himself after being trapped by a boulder in a Utah canyon for five days by severing his own arm. The experience is not just another kinetic work from Boyle, it's an especially intense one: A viewer in the very first screening required medical attention before the film was over.
The Hollywood Reporter: Why do you like bringing your films here? Because it sounds like the fest organizers didn't even expect '127 Hours' to be ready.
Danny Boyle: Because everybody can talk to each other in the street, it's honestly delightful for punters,...
The Hollywood Reporter: Why do you like bringing your films here? Because it sounds like the fest organizers didn't even expect '127 Hours' to be ready.
Danny Boyle: Because everybody can talk to each other in the street, it's honestly delightful for punters,...
- 9/11/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director of Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting will make his National Theatre debut next winter with Frankenstein adaption
He won eight Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire and huge acclaim for such stylish films as Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Sunshine. But now, just when his cinematic success is at its most giddying, Danny Boyle is to return to his theatrical roots – having been, in his words, "distracted for 15 years by the movies".
Boyle will make his National Theatre debut next winter, directing an adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, it was announced today.
According to the National's artistic director, Sir Nicholas Hytner, Boyle was one of the first artists he approached when he started at the theatre eight years ago. It was then that Boyle – over cake at a cafe – outlined his ideas about a Frankenstein production.
According to Hytner: "He has a very particular take … and he described to me in...
He won eight Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire and huge acclaim for such stylish films as Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Sunshine. But now, just when his cinematic success is at its most giddying, Danny Boyle is to return to his theatrical roots – having been, in his words, "distracted for 15 years by the movies".
Boyle will make his National Theatre debut next winter, directing an adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, it was announced today.
According to the National's artistic director, Sir Nicholas Hytner, Boyle was one of the first artists he approached when he started at the theatre eight years ago. It was then that Boyle – over cake at a cafe – outlined his ideas about a Frankenstein production.
According to Hytner: "He has a very particular take … and he described to me in...
- 1/22/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
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