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| Péter Eötvös |
The Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös will lead a master class, together with Gergely Vajda, at the festival, said festival director György Igric. The master class, which will also involve the German singer Cornelia Kallisch, artistic director of the Hungarian State Opera House Balázs Kovalik and music historian and head of the Bartók Archives László Vikárius, will put together a new production of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle to be presented as the closing event of the festival, he added.
Festival-goers will have a chance to see Eötvös conduct the Hungarian premiere of his work Levitation in Szombathely. His opera Radames will be performed, and films of more of his operas will be screened, with introductions by the composer.
Teachers at the international seminar will include the oboist and conductor Heinz Hollinger, the Belgian pianist Jan Michiels, the pianist and professor at the Salzburg Mozarteum Imre Rohmann, the flautist Zoltán Gyöngyössy and the Kossuth Prize-winning cellist Miklós Perényi, who will perform at a concert in Sárvár with his talented son Benjámin Perényi.
More than a hundred students from 20 countries are expected to attend the international Bartók Seminar. The festival programme will feature some of Bartók's best known works, inlcuding Bluebeard's Castle, Divertimento, and the ballets The Miraculous Mandarin and The Wooden Prince, which will be presented by the Budapest Puppet Theatre.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
