Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Tibor Bogányi

In 2017/2018, he is spending his seventh season as chief conductor of the Pannon Philharmonic.

Tibor Bogányi is of Hungarian descent and is regarded as the most interesting and talented member of the generation of Finnish conductors. At the age of 28 he was appointed Chief Conductor of… More

Soloist

Marko Fortunato

tenor

Ivana Srbljan

mezzo-soprano

Giorgio Surian

bass-baritone More

Krisztián Cser

basso

Szabolcs Balásy

Tibor Hoffner

Honvéd Male Choir

(chorus master: Kálmán Strausz)

About the Programme

This evening is bringing together two dominant composers of the first half of the 20th century who were also interested in each others’ art and who have excelled in musical theatre genres, too. Stravinsky owes his first major international successes to his ballet and dance music pieces; it’s enough, if we only think about The Rite of Spring, The Firebird, or The Soldier’ Tale. Bartók, who always talked about the said works with recognition, was to attract attention to himself by his opera Bluebeard's Castle, but we should not forget his two musical pantomimes, The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin, which now will be heard in a suite version. The piece, composed to a  text of Menyhért Lengyel, had a number of versions and was premiered in 1926, just one year prior the premiere of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex (1927), which had been written (with co-operation of Jean Cocteau) based on Sophocles’s same title drama and is considered by music historians as one of the most important examples of Neoclassicism.