ELEGY FOR YOUNG LOVERS A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The Liszt Academy is taking part in the 2016 edition of the Armel Opera Competition as a partner institution for the first time. In the 2015 competition, South Korean baritone Kim Boram was chosen for the lead role of the production, staged by András Almási-Tóth, together with vocal department students of the Liszt Academy and the Pannon Philharmonics conducted by Gergely Vajda in the Thália Theatre. Almási-Tóth selected the work Elegy for Young Lovers (1961, lead role at the premiere sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) by Hans Werner Henze, who created one of the most prolific and successful opera oeuvres of the second half of the 20th century, and which – unfortunately – is rarely performed in Hungary. The opera written to the libretto of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman is set in the Austrian Alps in 1910; it revolves around a poet called Gregor Mittenhofer, who with calculating cold-heartedness manipulates those around him and draws their unhappy fates into the
service of his own art.