New Year's at the Opera House

For the 12th time, the performance of the famous Symphony No. 9 will dominate the OPERA’s New Year celebrations. Back in the day, its Hungarian premiere was directed by the same Ferenc Erkel who was also the OPERA’s first music director. Every year, a different brilliant composer is selected to direct the masterpiece, and there is nobody at the OPERA who is better acquainted with this work and who can express with more confidence or greater strength the inherent values and message that make the work perfect to underscore the hope of a new year. What makes the performance even more special is that it includes the 28 pages of Gustav Mahler’s notes that reaffirm Beethoven’s score in a number of points.