The Don Juan Project Presented by Liszt Academy

Higher educational music institutions of four cities (Budapest, Zagreb, Stockholm, and Florence) take part in the international Opera Exam Festival. The opening performance is staged by the Opera Department of the Liszt Academy, headed by András Almási-Tóth. The student production is set in the future, although its music is taken from the past and present. The plot takes us to the year 2034, to a time when women doctors are attempting to create the perfect man from the DNA of their own lovers and husbands. Each of the eight scenes is built on a Mozart aria, to which students of the Composition Department have written a commentary. In the course of the performance we find out whether the creation of a perfect man is successful or not. The music of Mozart and his young colleagues is, however, perfect; it is performed by students of the Department of Vocal Studies, accompanied by Concerto Budapest under the baton of Ádám Cser.