The Stork Calif

Levente Gyöngyösi's two-act opera The Stork Calif was staged in its entirety for the first time at the Opera House on 28 May 2005, in a production directed by Mária Harangi. Born in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) in 1975, Gyöngyösi composed his work to a libretto by Zsófia Balla based on the novel by Mihály Babits. “What attracted me most was the unravelling and disintegration of the personality, the process by which a young man's existence and situation change from sunny joy to the darkest tragedy." The conflict between the distinguished student Elemer Tábory and the other “I”, the carpenter's apprentice who appears in his dreams, grows into a bloody conflict and, eventually, a veritable tragedy."

General cast:

Conductor: Gábor Hollerung
Elemér Tábory: Máté Sólyom-Nagy
Father: Péter Fried
Mother: Beatrix Fodor
Elemér's little sister: Polína Kozlova
Maid: Lilla Horti
Etelka: Eszter Wierdl
Aunt: Beáta Szepessy
Gondolier: Tamás Kóbor
Teacher: Gábor Csiki
Sylvia: Kornélia Bakos
Apprentice: Lajos Geiger
Master carpenter: László Szvétek
Master carpenter's wife: Mária Farkasréti
First servant: János Szerekován
Second servant: József Csapó
Master carpenter's daughter: N.N.
Waiter: Gábor Csiki
Town crier: András Káldi Kiss

Credits:

Libretto after Mihály Babits by: Zsófia Balla
Choir Master: Kálmán Strausz
Featuring: Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok

Premiere: May 29, 2017