Rákosi 60 / 75

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Details

Date
Day , Start time End time

Location
Hungarian State Opera
Running time including interval
  • Part I:
  • Interval:
  • Part II.:

In Brief

In 1952, an entire nation celebrated the 60th birthday of Mátyás Rákosi. Seventy-five years later, audiences can relive the bizarre pinnacle of the series of events as well as the personality cult of Hungarian communism – the grand gala held at the Opera House – through a kind of historical time travel, in which, alongside Rákosi, other key figures of the era appear, and ideology-driven musical numbers of the programme are reconstructed.