#hungarian opera

[anne-is-confused]

Captain Francis Crozier, at Furthest North.

[scanzen]

Puccini: Pillangókisasszony

1963, Qualiton, Hungary.

Cover art: Varga Győző

[elennemigo]

Benedict saw the performance of Don Quixote by the Hungarian National Ballet on Sunday. And then he personally congratulated the company on backstage. (Full pics under the cut.)

[backwardshatpierre]

Fuckin hell what is with this race!!?!

Max v Hamilton

The mclarens

The radios. Oft wow. Well then. Still 5 more laps to go…

[damned-juggernaut]

last night, I went to the Hungarian State Opera to watch Rigoletto [the performance was incredible and their voices were beautiful] and then we went to the Opera shop... and I found this. I thought it was absolutely hilarious, and strange, as they only had socks of one other person, besides Haydn... best 4000 Ft ever spent

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: 45-year-old composer, conductor, and pianist Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) shocks the Viennese musical world of 1878 by revealing the famous big bushy beard that he will sport for the rest of his life.

Having always been clean-shaven up to that point, Brahms warned one friend in advance of the big reveal: "I am coming [to the concert] with a large beard! Prepare your wife for a most awful sight.”

Singer George Henschel (1850 – 1934) recalled what happened that night:

"I saw a man who was unknown to me, rather stout, of middle height, and with long hair and a full beard, approaching... In a very deep and hoarse voice, he gravely introduced himself as 'Musikdirektor Muller from Braunschweig.' ... An instant later, we all found ourselves laughing heartily at the perfect success of Brahms's disguise.”

Brahms was a notorious practical joker, and he must have savored the confusion he had caused. Even better, not everyone caught on so quickly – his good friend, the noted Beethoven scholar Gustav Nottebohm (1817 – 1892), apparently spent a whole evening conversing earnestly with ‘Kapellmeister Muller.’

Poor Nottebohm was also the target of one of Brahms’s most infamous practical jokes. Once, on a scrap of old music paper that he had procured, Brahms jotted down a then-current pop tune in an expert imitation of Beethoven’s musical handwriting (Brahms was an autograph collector) and bribed a local street vendor to wrap the manuscript around a sausage and sell it to Nottebohm. Brahms then arranged to be with him when this exchange occurred, and he was delighted to see the old pedant unwrap the sausage, step under a streetlight to furtively examine the paper (with his eyes popping out), and then slip it into his pocket and finish eating the greasy sausage, barehanded…

PICTURED: A copy of one of the last photos taken of the beardless Brahms, which he signed on the front with an inscription on the back that is actually dated to the year *after* he unveiled his beard.

[ninjacatbug]

Fun fact: the opera house at the end of Sangria's character trailer is the Hungarian State Opera House!

[aventurinetears]

István a király (1984)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Scene from the Shulamite opera

Hungarian vintage postcard, mailed to Debrecen, Hungary

[miabrown007]

sapphic racer rivals to lovers

[elennemigo]

Benedict going on Don Quixote's backstage, congratulating the whole cast, after the show. 👏

[transmurderbug]

Hi Sky 🥰🧡 if you'd like to play...

🎶🌾when u get this put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your followers 🌾🎶

Uuooo, hi!! Yes! 😌

So, it's kind of hard to name only five, so imma cheat a little bit and put whole soundtracks on here too... 😶‍🌫️ sooo..

I've been obsessively listening to the Hamilton musical lately, so all of that (I love musicals)

The entire Phantom of the Opera musical, because it's one of my favorite things in the whole world (have I mentioned I love musicals?)

The Beatles's Yesterday, because I grew up listening to it, and I never stopped loving it (it's also one of those songs that feels different as an adult)

Rammstein's Ich Will, because it was one of my favorite songs when I was a kid (I grew up listening to rock music mostly, and that is one genre that has never left me, and rules my playlists... Along with musicals 🤣).

Staind's Something to Remind You, because I love emotional music I relate to and can cry to while driving

And the list would go on and on and on... I have so many more, these are the more well known songs I listen to. Most of my main playlists consist of Hungarian rock music that have lyrics which will make you think about life so deeply, I sometimes feel like a philosopher.

But for now I'm happy I could share these 😁 Thank you Willow, for giving me the opportunity! 😌

[elemelon-s]

Az Operaház Fantomja / 900th performance, November 11th, 2022 (Madách Színház, Budapest)

Az Operaház Fantomja: Csengeri Attila, Posta Viktor, Sasvári Sándor

Christine Daaé: Fonyó Barbara, Krassy Renáta, Mahó Andrea

Raoul: Solti Ádám, Homonnay Zsolt

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest, HUBGARY

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: The immortal Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) is born in Hamburg, Germany. Brahms was the undisputed master of traditional symphonic and sonata style in the second half of the 19th century. During a time of tremendous musical upheaval, when the "classical" traditions that had been established by titans such as Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) were being challenged by "revolutionary" figures such as Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) and Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), Brahms proudly served as the standard-bearer for traditionalism in music. Indeed, it was Brahms's sterling reputation in this regard that spurred the famous conductor-pianist Hans von Bulow (1830 - 1894) to quip that Brahms was one of "the Three Bs," alongside J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) and Beethoven. PICTURED: A "carte de visite" portrait photo of Brahms that was taken right around the time of the premiere of his 2nd Symphony. This is also notable for being the last photograph ever taken of Brahms *without* his famous beard. Brahms signed this copy of the photograph along the lower margin on the front, and also scrawled a brief note on the back ("Respectively to 19th January 1879"). Framed alongside this photo is one of Brahms’s visiting cards with his name and address printed on the front -- and once again, Brahms penned a short note on the back ("Sincerely grateful! And I ask you to commend me to the Baroness in such a sense!")