Opera

Budapest’s Hungarian State Opera House, the Magyar Állami Operaház, is one of Miklós Ybl’s signature buildings, and it opened to the public on 27 September 1884 after construction began in 1875. The city of Budapest and Emperor Franz Joseph I both helped fund it, which tells you how seriously the capital treated opera in the late 19th century. Ybl gave it a Neo-Renaissance, Renaissance Revival face, and the building still ranks as the second largest opera house in Budapest and in all of Hungary. The story here goes back earlier than the building itself: opera troupes were performing in the city from the early 19th century, and by 1835 Ferenc Erkel was already conducting them after the Kasa National Opera and Theatrical Troupe arrived in Buda. Later, the house became a regular stage for major names like Gustav Mahler, who directed here from 1888 to 1891, and Otto Klemperer, who served as music director from 1947 to 1950. …

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