The Stork Calif

Levente Gyöngyösi's two-act opera The Stork Calif was staged in its entirety for the first time at the Opera House on 28 May 2005, in a production directed by Mária Harangi. Born in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) in 1975, Gyöngyösi composed his work to a libretto by Zsófia Balla based on the novel by Mihály Babits. “What attracted me most was the unravelling and disintegration of the personality, the process by which a young man's existence and situation change from sunny joy to the darkest tragedy." The conflict between the distinguished student Elemer Tábory and the other “I”, the carpenter's apprentice who appears in his dreams, grows into a bloody conflict and, eventually, a veritable tragedy."