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The festival?s new director wants to bring opera out of the opera house and into the streets and squares of Miskolc with the aim of ?giving people a taste of how wonderful opera can be?, Kesselyák said.
Kesselyák, who was the festival?s founding musical director, said opera was in a state of ?crisis? today. He explained that Verdi had not written Rigoletto with the knowledge that little else would follow in the next hundred years.
Kesselyák said the festival would commission new operas from composers in the future.
Miskolc, once a centre of heavy industry under communism, has become well known for its Bartók + ... opera festival. Bartók is always on the festival bill, but a different composer or theme shares the spotlight each year. Next year Puccini will share the bill.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
