The Gershwin estate stipulates that Porgy and Bess should be performed by an all-black cast. The Hungarian State Opera in Budapest reportedly asked its mostly white cast to say that they are black.

Explore quiet corners of grace shaped not only by elegance, but by endurance.

A concert of early 1900s French songs will be followed by two fully staged productions of Haydn and Donizetti operas ...

The New York tour of the Hungarian State Opera and Hungarian National Ballet continues at the David H. Koch Theater through Nov. 11, 212-721-6500, lincolncenter.org.

The Hungarian State Opera and the Hungarian National Ballet is to make their U. S. debut between 30 October and 11 November at the David H. Koch Theater presenting six opera and ballet productions ...

The cast of the Hungarian State Opera’s 2018 production of “Porgy and Bess.” The cast for a revival, all of whom are white, were asked to sign declarations that they identified as African ...

The Hungarian State Opera was founded in 1884 by the Government of the Kingdom of Hungary, and its first directors were Ferenc Erkel, a Hungarian conductor, composer, and key figure in Hungarian ...

Back in 2019, Opera Neo artistic director Peter Kozma met an old friend for coffee in Budapest and they brewed up an international collaboration. The pandemic put their plans on ice for two years ...

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For the Hungarian production, director András Almási-Tóth moved the opera's setting to an airplane hangar, with the characters shifted to be refugees from an unnamed place and crisis.