Subjective! Lecture series of András Batta
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Subjective! Lecture series of András Batta
The programme is held in Hungarian.
Planet opera… Or rather: opera-planet? Both are true, because opera is a vast world, and it is constantly in motion, “wandering” through time and space alike. Its radiance is immeasurable. It even singed Freddie Mercury, who longed for “operatic” singing, was suited to it, and indeed made an excursion onto the opera stage alongside the wonderful opera singer Monserrat Caballé (Barcelona). Of course, for many people the first thing that comes to mind is Freddie and Queen’s most famous album, A Night at the Opera. This title, by the way, does not refer to an actual night at the opera, but is a parodic quotation of the famous film (“Botrány az operában”). But the idea of opera hovers above the album.
The idea for the spring “Subjective” series stems from the House of Music’s temporary “Freddie” exhibition, but it does not revolve only around that. We wander among masterpieces and look for mirrors in which, alongside other faces, our own may appear for a moment. A little surreal, but true: by stepping through the mirror we at the same time step beyond our own limits. So let’s see what’s “over there”!
Opera — life or death? When? When opera was more important than politics, when politics itself was the subject of opera. When it was a question of existence whom the people of the time identified with on the opera stage. Let’s take a forty-year subscription to the opera houses of Paris, from the mid-18th century…
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
