Treurenberg 10, 1000 Brussels
Béla Bartók's opera Bluebeard's Castle for the chamber orchestra.
- Diána Hajdú - Judit
- Péter Cser - Prince Bluebeard
- István Dénes - pianist
Diána Hajdú was born in Nagyszőlős, Transcarpathia. She began her musical studies at the age of 6 at the Béla Bartók Music School in Nyagyszőlősz. She later continued her studies at the Béla Bartók Music School in Miskolc, where she studied piano, and at the King Szent István Music Secondary School in Budapest, where she studied composition. In 2000 she graduated from the University of Pécs with a degree in piano, in 2003 from the Budapest Academy of Music with a degree in chorus and in 2020 she graduated from the University of Music in Debrecen with a degree in opera singing. After that, she joined the chorus of the Operetta Theatre. Currently, she is a singer with the Hungarian Radio Arts Ensemble. In addition to her work with the choir, he regularly performs as a soloist in the Matthias Church in Budapest. In 2022, she was a soloist in the Saint Seans Christmas Oratorio with the Hungarian Radio ensemble, which was broadcast on MTV. She sang in the Basilica, the Szeged Cathedral and the St. Imre Church in Székesfehérvár with the Alba Regia Symphony Orchestra. Several of her chamber music concerts were broadcasted by Bartók Radio.
Péter Cser studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest and at the Hochschule für Musik una darstllende Junst in Graz. He participated in master classes with hanne-Lohre Kuse, Jevgenyij Nyeszterenko, Kurt Ryall and Ildikó Komlósi. He is a regular guest at the Graz and Prague Opera Houses, the Theater an der Wien, the National Theatre of Miskolc and the Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen. He has been a participant in major classical music events such as the Budapest Spring Festival, the Bregenz, Salzburg and Lucerne Festivals, the Berlin Music Biennale and, not least, the Canterbury Festival. As a bass soloist he has performed in many European countries as well as in Argentina, Japan, China, Russia, Syria and the USA. Notably with Rene Clemencic, Ruppert Huber, Esko Kallio, Carlo Montanaro, Helmuth Riling and Dinald Runnincles. He has made numerous radio and CD recordings for EMI, ORF, Hungaroton, Radioton and Naxos, where he has recorded Liszt's Via crivis, Szekszárd Mass, Requiem, sacred works by G.J. Werner and Michael Haydn, J.S.Bach's Mattheus Passion, Magnificat in E flat, Weinachts Oratorio, the world premiere of Johann Friedrich's Passion, and Orthodox sacred music.
István Dénes graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music in 1977, received his conducting diploma from András Kórodi, his piano diploma from Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Rados, and his composition diploma from István Sárközy.Since 1977 he has been a member and guest conductor of the Hungarian State Opera House. From 1987 to 1995 he was principal conductor of the Theatre of Bremen, from 1995 to 2008 he was chief music director of the Theatre of Trier. In the meantime, he was guest conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and has appeared as a guest conductor and composer in many European countries. He has made numerous recordings for Hungarian Radio, Radio Bremen and Bayerische Rundfunk. As a pianist and conductor, he has also made CD recordings. His repertoire includes more than 80 stage works, from opera to musical, from operetta to ballet.