Carmina Burana
THE CRITICS RESPOND:
“The production of Carmina Burana being staged in Budapest is an experience of a lifetime.”
Domokos Lajos Kabai, Bekiáltás
Magical images in 3D
For 15 years, painter and organist Ágnes Zászkaliczky and conductor and cellist Tibor Bogányi have been working together on finding ways to attract a wider range of audience segments to classical concerts by enhancing their productions with singular visual experiences: Zászkaliczky selects projected material from paintings created expressly for the given musical piece. Their largest-scale effort to date is the super-production Carmina Burana, which they put together with the world-renowned Budapest-based Freelusion Studio.
“We worked out the basic concept of Carmina Burana together with librettist Attila Könnyű. Not long after the idea was conceived, we found the Freelusion team, whose unique technical and artistic expertise allowed us to raise the concept of “visual concerts” to a new level. Through this collaboration, we developed real-time three-dimensional visual material that is in perfect harmony with the music. The essence of the concept is the fact that it is not the visuals that dictate the tempo, but rather the music: it is not the conductor’s task to “accompany” an existing film or animation, like at so many concerts of film music, for example. Instead, the music takes centre stage, and everything else adapts to it. We therefore had to create a form of animation that would be suitable for following the music live during the concert. In the music, Orff followed and expressed the messages of the songs with extraordinary sensitivity. Starting from Orff’s own concept, we have selected “magical images” that reinforce the effect of the music without suppressing it, and which make the text more profound without illustrating it. The dynamic of the moods of the projection is organised along the lines of the major movements. We’ve built upon ancient symbols that can be found both in Hungarian and universal motif systems. Tímea Papp, Freelusion’s superb choreographer, we decided which movements would also incorporate dance to be performed by the outstanding dancers from the Hungarian National Ballet. We hope this will transport the audience to a magical virtual reality through Orff’s elemental music and the unique visual experience.”Tibor Bogányi and Ágnes Zászkaliczky
General cast
- Conductor
- Tibor Bogányi
- Soprano
- Rita Rácz / Erika Miklósa
- Tenor
- Tibor Szappanos / István Horváth
- Baritone
- Zsolt Haja / Zoltán Kelemen
- Dancers
- Zsófia Gyarmati / Riku Yamamoto / Federico Berardi / Ildikó Boros / András Szegő / Levente Bajári
- Featuring
- Bordó Sárkány Old Music Order
- Prologue
- András Kőrösi
Credits
- Concept
- Tibor Bogányi / Attila Könnyű / Ágnes Zászkaliczky
- Artistic director
- Tibor Bogányi / Ágnes Zászkaliczky
- Conductor, director
- Tibor Bogányi
- 3D projection mapping
- Freelusion
- Choreographer, visual designer
- Tímea Papp
- Chief graphic designer
- Ádám Herczeg
- Costume designer
- Mónika Szelei
- Chorus director
- Gábor Csiki
- Head of the children's chorus
- Nikolett Hajzer
- Hungarian surtitles
- Ferenc Pödör
- English surtitles
- N.N.
- Premiere
- Sept. 22, 2018