Tickets and season passes are available at the Filharmonia Hungary office in Szeged (6720 Szeged, Klauzál Square 7), at Ticket Express offices, and online at www.jegymester.hu.
Ticket discounts:
We offer a 10% discount for students and pensioners.
Filharmonia Hungary season ticket holders can purchase tickets with a 20% discount by showing their season tickets! The discount can be applied to one ticket per concert per subscription.
Individual discounts cannot be combined!
We reserve the right to change the programmes, dates, venues, and performances, and ticket prices may change accordingly.
Sweeping melodies, overflowing emotions, romance - and yet a somewhat realistic portrayal: this is the world of Puccini’s operas, which hold a unique place in music history.
The opera genre was born in Italy in the early 1600s, in the workshops of Claudio Monteverdi and his contemporaries. Within just a few years, it became incredibly popular and permanently set the course of Italian musical development apart from the musical traditions flourishing north of the Alps. While in most of Europe opera was just one of many important genres - and any composer of note was expected to write symphonies, string quartets, sonatas, concertos, and sacred works - Italian composers focused primarily on opera, with other genres appearing only secondarily in their output.
It’s no coincidence that Italian opera remained the benchmark for opera composers for centuries to come, and that non-Italian composers had to fight hard to have their language, nation, and voice represented on the operatic map. At the turn of the 20th century, Giacomo Puccini stood at the center of Italian opera. And even though the cold breath of the 20th century had already reached the theaters of Puccini’s time, he understood that - modernity or not - there can be no true Italian opera without grand, sweeping melodies. He allowed himself to write such lines even as composers north of the Alps like Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and Igor Stravinsky were beginning to explore the new world of atonality.
So if you long for beautiful music, soaring melodies, and powerful emotions, you will certainly enjoy this concert.