Goldmark: The Queen of Sheba – on the big screen

As one of the winners of the Hungarian National Film Institute’s tenders, the Opera has completed its first true opera film using an earlier theatrical production of the opera The Queen of Sheba (Die Königin von Saba). We are especially proud that we were able to do so with our own equipment: the recording used as the film’s audio track was recorded in Eiffel Art Studios’ Fricsay Studio and the film was recorded at the Bánffy Stage by our own crew. We managed the shoot at external locations, and we are happy that the film’s red carpet premiere was held in our very own cinema theatre, making use of the Bánffy Stage’s capabilities as a screening room to be exact.

Conductor: Balázs Kocsár 
Director of the original opera production: Csaba Káel
Assistant director of the original opera production: Sylvie Gábor 

Assistant director: Eszter Petrovics 
Director: László Dobronay 
Coordinator: Dániel Nagy 
Producer: József Berger 
Coproducer: Zoltán Amin 
Hostess of the evening: Noémi Morvai 

The film was made with support received from the National Film Institute.