Organization

Stage director

Tamás Juronics

Singer

Soprano

Orsolya Ferenczy

Countess Mariza

Baritone

László Szívós

Prince Populescu

Tenor

Szilveszter Szélpál

Baron Koloman Zsupan

Boldizsár László

Count Tassilo of Endrody-Wittemburg

Roland Tötös

Contralto

Júlia Vajda

Princess Bozena Guddenstein to Clumetz

Spoken

Zoltán Pálfi

Tschekko

Szilvia Dobrotka

Manja

Krisztina Kónya

Barbara Bordás

Máthé Beáta

Tibor Rácz

Penizek

Conductor

Hermann Szabolcs

Ferenc Koczka

Music

Faculty Director

Gergely Flórián

Caretaker

Stefanik Sándor

Lisa

Szeged National Theatre

Others

Choir of the Szeged National Theater

Orchestra

Szeged Symphony Orchestra

Ballet

Dance choir of the Szeged National Theater

Gräfin Mariza -  (Countess Maritza)

Szeged

Hungary

Public

Countess Maritza

Approved

“Operetta is, in fact, the most serious stage genre, the most beautiful and free with which we can strike kings without danger, and which, born of meaningful, imaginative, innovative souls, can destroy more of this rotten world and make the future better — parliamentary obstruction ... ”(Ady Endre)

A young man introducing himself under the name of Béla Török takes on the job of a landlord on the Decsényi estate. The man lived his life as Count Tasziló Endrődy-Wittenberg until he became impoverished. Unaware of all this, the mistress of the estate arrives home from Vienna, excited by a love disappointment. Marica sees a dowry hunter in every of her suitors, so she finds herself an imaginary fiancé: Baron Kálmán Zsupán. Marica and Taszilo, of course, fall in love. The non-existent Zupan pops up unexpectedly, and friends and relatives who want to help confuse events, but in the end, love wins.

A contemporary critique writes of the Vienna premiere: "Kálmán has no more purposeful and confident master of operetta in the alternation of cheerful and serious moods, in the arrangement of voices for non-exhaustive inventions, in the proportion of singing and dancing numbers, and in the intensification of finals."

English

Countess Maritza by Kálmán, From (2022/2022), Directed by Tamás Juronics,, Conductor Hermann Szabolcs, Ferenc Koczka, Szeged National Theatre, Szeged, Hungary

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