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

Kristina Kolar

soprano, Tosca More

Paulo Ferreira

tenor More

Giorgio Surian

bass-baritone More

About the Programme

Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca should hardly be introduced to the Hungarian audience. The three-act opera, based on Victorien Sardou's drama La Tosca, premiered in 1900, has been continuously played at the Hungarian musical theatres since it was first performed at the Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest (on 1 December 1903) - that is, for more than 110. The most well-known parts can also be heard at "concert-like" productions, opera galas, and song evenings. This time, you could listen to a one-hour cross-section of the monumental, with the most important scenes of the work. The Tosca would be led up by a rarely heard Puccini song, one of the composer’s first opuses. The Preludio sinfonico was written in 1882, during the composer’s conservatory years, and although its style is rather like Wagner’s overtures’, in its certain moments, there are the features that would sum in the Manon and La Boheme into the musical style that determined the whole genres of the opera of the early 20th century.