World Voice Day is a programme of events organised every year since 1999 and dedicated to demonstrating what an important role the voice, as one of the key tools of communication, plays in our everyday lives, something that is the subject of a great deal of scientific material.
On 16 April, those interested in learning more about the voice participate in hundreds of concerts, scientific presentations and other programmes around the world. The Opera first joined the event in 2014, but in 2017 – because of Easter Sunday – we will be celebrating a day earlier, on 15 April, and thus become the first in the world!
Opening speech by Prof. Tamás Hacki MD, otolaryngologist and phoniatrics specialist and WVD coordinator for Hungary
Organiser, presenter: Éva Bátori, opera singer and Artist of Merit
Director: András Aczél
Conductor: Kálmán Szennai
Featuring the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
First part of the programme – classical music
“Three generations together”
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte – Sarastro’s aria (Kolos Kovács, András Palerdi and Bence Pataki)
Erkel: Bánk bán – Melinda’s aria (Ingrid Kertesi, Zita Szemere and Judit Baracskai)
Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore – Nemorino’s aria (János Berkes, Péter Balczó and Gergely Biri)
Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila – Delila’s aria ‘Mon coeur s’ouvre á ta voix’ (Lívia Budai, Bernadett Wiedemann and Alexandra Ruszo)
“Singing Together” – examples from the history of opera
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci – Nedda’s aria (Apollónia Egyed, Cluj-Napoca)
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci – Canio’s aria ‘Vesti la Giubba’ (Titusz Tóbisz, Kosice)
“Wonderful ensembles of the history of opera”
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte – Quintet (Tamás Tarjányi, Zsolt Haja, Beatrix Fodor, Gabriella Balga, Gabriella Busa)
Puccini: La Bohème – Finale of Act 4 (Apollónia Egyed, Zita Szemere, Boldizsár László, Zsolt Haja)
Rossini: Il barbiere di Sivigla – the end of the Finale of Act 1 (Zsolt Haja, Gabriella Balga, Tamás Tarjányi, Tamás Szüle, András Palerdi)
Second part of the programme – popular music
Gigi Radics
Boldizsár László and the Cotton Club Singers
Péter Balczó and the Adagio
László Szvétek
Quartett Escualo and Bernadett Wiedemann
