"The folk songs used as arias, the Baroque music and the rap, the talent of the actor-singers who sought a stylistic and emotional effect instead of vocal virtuosity, and the five excellent musicians on stage made this an overall captivating performance," the critic Fabienne Darge wrote in Le Monde.
Darge went on to praise the production's magical sets that looked like paintings.
The Béla Pintér Company performed Peasant Opera four times at the Théatre de la Cité Internationale between October 16 and 21 as part of the Paris Autumn Festival. The troupe will perform the piece again in Brétigny-sur-Orge, near Paris, on October 24.
The performances in Paris were the company's first ever in the French capital.
Read the review in French.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
