After a three-year hiatus, Verdi's popular opera Don Carlo returns to the repertoire in the well-known four-act Italian version, with Boldizsár László in the title role. The production, performed five times between 17 May and 1 June 2025, features the ensembles of the Hungarian State Opera conducted by first guest conductor Péter Halász and Kálmán Szennai, in a staging by Frank Hilbrich.
The theme from Star Wars, An American in Paris, and excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide will be performed at the concert titled Golden Age: American Beauty at the Opera House. The 18 May 2025 performance will feature iconic works by John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Samuel Barber, and Charles Ives, interpreted by the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra. The gala tying in the OPERA’s Anglophone Season, will be conducted by American conductor Paul Connelly, with performances by opera singers Gabriella Balga and Eszter Zemlényi, pianist Gergő Zoltán Varga, and the Hungarian National Ballet.
In memory of the victims of the Holocaust from the Opera House, seventeen Stolpersteine were inaugurated in front of the main entrance of the Opera House by Prof. Dr. Andor Grósz, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary (Mazsihisz), and Dr. Szilveszter Ókovács, general director of the Hungarian State Opera.