A musical guest performance from Odorheiu Secuiesc

A musical guest performance from Odorheiu Secuiesc

A special musical performance is coming to Sfântu Gheorghe from Odorheiu Secuiesc in the first week of November. Béla Pintér’s balladistic play Peasant Opera will be presented by the Tomcsa Sándor Theatre and the Udvarhely Folk Dance Ensemble, directed by Csaba Györfi. The guest performances will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, 5th and 6th November at 7 pm. in the main hall of the Tamási Áron Theatre.

Béla Pintér does not need introduction to the audience of Sfântu Gheorghe, as two of his plays – Kaisers TV. Ungarn (2014) and Dievoushka (2023) – have been performed with great success by the Tamási Áron Theatre. The Peasant Opera is a similar musical piece, which evokes the atmosphere of Greek tragedies of fate. It is at once beautiful and ugly, uplifting and shocking, comic and tragic. Tragicomic. It depicts a past event that inevitably determines the fate of some people. It is the story of an important day, a wedding, which is both pathetically funny and upliftingly tragic.

Béla Pintér said of his piece, “In Peasant Opera we have adapted a ballad story into an opera. The music is based on Transylvanian Hungarian folk songs, a bizarre yet homogeneous blend of baroque and rock. The story will probably be familiar to many. My grandmother told me that it happened to people from the Szabadszállás area a long time ago. You will forgive me if I say for the moment that there will be some unhappy people, passion, humour, incest and murder. If you like it, come and see it more than once! If you don’t like it, go and see a doctor!”

The director Csaba Györfi is the artistic director of Bekecs Dance Theatre, dance artist and choreographer of Oradea Dance Company. Between 2007-2014 he was a dance artist at the Udvarhely Dance Ensemble in Odorheiu Secuiesc, between 2014-2016 he was a director-choreographer at the András Lóránt Company in Târgu Mures, in 2015 he graduated from the Master’s Degree in Directing at the Târgu Mures University of Arts. He has directed, choreographed and danced in more than half a hundred performances throughout Transylvania.