Composer

Conductor

Professor

Composer, conductor and professor: the Hungarian Peter Eötvös
combines all three roles in a single extraordinarily high-profile career.
Born in 1944, he has long been considered one of the most significant
and influential personalities in the world of music both as an
internationally recognized conductor and a composer of highly acclaimed
operas, orchestral works and concertos written for well-known artists
from all over the world. As a professor, he founded his own institutes
for the future generation of young conductors and composers with
a focus on contemporary music.

News

2023

Eötvös: Ligetidyll – premiere

on May 28th at BMC Budapest with Concerto Budapest

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2023

Péter Eötvös and the Klangforum Wien

Ligeti Concertos are conducted by Peter Eötvös
Bartók Spring Festival – Müpa Budapest

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2023

Eötvös: Respond – Hungarian premiere

With Máté Szűcs and Concerto Budapest

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2023

VALUSKA opera is coming soon in 2023

Eötvös 13rd opera will be prensented at Hungarian State Opera in december 2023

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2023

Eötvös: Golden Dragon – Austrian Premiere

Further performances in Vienna:
16, 18, 20, 25, 27 February; 1, 3 March 2023

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Upcoming

compositions in concert

15 Jun, 2023
Berlin, Germany
Eötvös: Sleepless

Eötvös: Sleepless
opera ballad
Cond: Gábor Káli
Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Director: Kornél Mundruczó

Set Design, Costumes: Monika Pormale

Light: Felice Ross

Alida: Victoria Randem

Asle: Linard Vrielink

Mother, Midwife: Katharina Kammerloher

Old Woman: Hanna Schwarz

Girl: Sarah Defrise

Innkeeper: Jan Martiník

Man In Black: Tómas Tómasson

Boatman: Roman Trekel

Jeweler: Siyabonga Maqungo

Asleik: Arttu Kataja

Sextette: Samantha Britt, Nicole Hyde, Yingsi He, Kristín Anna Guðmundsdóttir, Kirsten-Josefine Grützmacher, Alexandra von Roepke, Andrés Moreno García, Sotiris Charalampous, Florian Hoffmann, Carles Pachon, Benjamin Chamandy, Friedrich Hamel

 

Staatskapelle Berlin

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18 Jun, 2023
Berlin, Germany
Eötvös: Sleepless

Eötvös: Sleepless
opera ballad
Cond: Gábor Káli
Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Director: Kornél Mundruczó

Set Design, Costumes: Monika Pormale

Light: Felice Ross

Alida: Victoria Randem

Asle: Linard Vrielink

Mother, Midwife: Katharina Kammerloher

Old Woman: Hanna Schwarz

Girl: Sarah Defrise

Innkeeper: Jan Martiník

Man In Black: Tómas Tómasson

Boatman: Roman Trekel

Jeweler: Siyabonga Maqungo

Asleik: Arttu Kataja

Sextette: Samantha Britt, Nicole Hyde, Yingsi He, Kristín Anna Guðmundsdóttir, Kirsten-Josefine Grützmacher, Alexandra von Roepke, Andrés Moreno García, Sotiris Charalampous, Florian Hoffmann, Carles Pachon, Benjamin Chamandy, Friedrich Hamel

 

Staatskapelle Berlin

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21 Jun, 2023
Bremen, Germany
Eötvös: Angels in America

Conductor:  William Kelley
Director:  Andrea Moses
Stage:  Katja Haß
Costume: Anja Rabes
Light: Norman Plathe-Narr
Dramaturge:  Malte UbenaufBrigitte Heusinger

 

The Angel / Voice: Marie Smolka
Harper Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg: Ulrike Mayer
Hannah Pitt / Rabbi Chemelwitz / Henry: Anja JungConstanze JaderVerena Tönjes
Joseph Pitt / Ghost 2: Michał Partyka
Prior Walter: Ian Spinetti
Louis Ironson: William Ferguson
Roy Cohn / Ghost 1: Stephen Clark
Belize / Mr Lies / Woman: Matthew Reese
Angel Africanii:  Mariam Murgulia
Angel Antarctica: Svenja Schicktanz
Angel Asiatica:  Krassena Velkova
Angel Oceania:  Matteo Cammarata
Angel Europe: Alberto Gallo
Angel Australia: Bruno Vargas
Vokaltrio:  Martina ParkesGabriele WundererAllan Parkes

Orchester Bremer Philharmoniker
Statisterie des Theater Bremen

 

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25 Jun, 2023
Berlin, Germany
Eötvös: Sleepless

Eötvös: Sleepless
opera ballad
Cond: Gábor Káli
Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Director: Kornél Mundruczó

Set Design, Costumes: Monika Pormale

Light: Felice Ross

Alida: Victoria Randem

Asle: Linard Vrielink

Mother, Midwife: Katharina Kammerloher

Old Woman: Hanna Schwarz

Girl: Sarah Defrise

Innkeeper: Jan Martiník

Man In Black: Tómas Tómasson

Boatman: Roman Trekel

Jeweler: Siyabonga Maqungo

Asleik: Arttu Kataja

Sextette: Samantha Britt, Nicole Hyde, Yingsi He, Kristín Anna Guðmundsdóttir, Kirsten-Josefine Grützmacher, Alexandra von Roepke, Andrés Moreno García, Sotiris Charalampous, Florian Hoffmann, Carles Pachon, Benjamin Chamandy, Friedrich Hamel

 

Staatskapelle Berlin

More info >

29 Jun, 2023
Berlin, Germany
Eötvös: Sleepless

Eötvös: Sleepless
opera ballad
Cond: Gábor Káli
Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Director: Kornél Mundruczó

Set Design, Costumes: Monika Pormale

Light: Felice Ross

Alida: Victoria Randem

Asle: Linard Vrielink

Mother, Midwife: Katharina Kammerloher

Old Woman: Hanna Schwarz

Girl: Sarah Defrise

Innkeeper: Jan Martiník

Man In Black: Tómas Tómasson

Boatman: Roman Trekel

Jeweler: Siyabonga Maqungo

Asleik: Arttu Kataja

Sextette: Samantha Britt, Nicole Hyde, Yingsi He, Kristín Anna Guðmundsdóttir, Kirsten-Josefine Grützmacher, Alexandra von Roepke, Andrés Moreno García, Sotiris Charalampous, Florian Hoffmann, Carles Pachon, Benjamin Chamandy, Friedrich Hamel

 

Staatskapelle Berlin

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Upcoming

concerts & masterclasses

29 Sep, 2023
Cologne, Germany
WDR Sinfonie Orchestra

Eötvös: Ligetidyll
Eötvös: Respond: Timothy Ridout, viola
Eötvös: Sirens' Song

Conductor: Peter Eötvös

 

 

3 Nov, 2023
Berlin, Germany
Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Eötvös: Sleepless
opera ballad
Cond: Peter Eötvös

5 Nov, 2023
Berlin, Germany
Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Eötvös: Sleepless
opera ballad
Cond: Peter Eötvös

9 Nov, 2023
Berlin, Germany
Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Eötvös: Sleepless
opera ballad
Cond: Peter Eötvös

2 Dec, 2023
Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

Hungarian Premiere
Eötvös: Valuska
Conductor: Peter Eötvös

 

 

New release

New opera

Foundation

Peter Eötvös Foundation

Founded in 1991, renewed in 2004 it undertakes the supporting and promoting of young composers’s and conductors’s career.