About 90 percent of tickets for performances during the festival were sold, but some shows were sold out, including all six performances of the musical ?Rudolf? by Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy as well as the three performances of the operetta ?The Gypsy Queen? by Kálmán Imre.
Tamás Herczeg, who is deputy head of the company which organises the festival, said Ede Szigligeti?s farce ?Young Lilly? was a great success and the Hungarian musical ?Gallant John? by Pongrácz Kacsó also played to a packed house.
The festival, which was first held 75 years ago and was restarted after a hiatus last year, offered several new features, such as free promenade concerts after the main shows and a big screen showing the performance of ?Bánk Bán? on August 20, enabling thousands of spectators to see the opera, Herczeg said.
The programme for next summer will be announced as early as the beginning of September in order to help travel organisers abroad sell more tickets, boosting the number of foreign visitors.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
