Composer

Short composer biography

Peter Eötvös is a highly influential figure of the Hungarian and international contemporary music scene. He started composing music as early as the age of 5. He grew up in Budapest and learned composition in the School of Exceptional Young Talents at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, after he continued his studies in Cologne, Germany, where he studied composition under the tutelage of B. A. Zimmermann and had the opportunity to work with Karlheinz Stockhausen. His international career has taken him to many countries of the world, from Japan to Germany, France, the Netherlands and to New York. As the musical director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain for over a decade, he had the chance to personally collaborate with the most significant living composers of the time. His fourteen operas, instrumental solo concertos, larger- and smaller scale symphonic compositions and chamber music pieces are regularly staged in the world’s greatest concert halls, festivals and opera houses. He also often uses contemporary source texts as librettos.

In recent years, he has been commissioned to write orchestral pieces for the Concertgebouw, the Elbphilharmonie, the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Seoul and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and many others. His social and political sensitivity has inspired him to pen several of his pieces, for instance, Alle vittime senza nome, Oratorium balbulum, The Golden Dragon or Angels in America.

His operas were commissioned by the most prestigious houses, such as the Opera de Lyon, Chatelet Paris, Bavarian State Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Frankfurt, New York Philharmony Orchestra, Berlin State Opera or the Hungarian State Opera House.

Compositions

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Peter Eötvös:
Senza Sangue
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
BMC CD  278
Viktória Vizin, Jordan Shanahan
Conducted by Peter Eötvös

3 Nov, 2023
Berlin, Germany
Eötvös: Sleepless

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

 

Musical Director: Peter Eötvös
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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5 Nov, 2023
Berlin, Germany
Eötvös: Sleepless

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

 

Musical Director: Peter Eötvös
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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9 Nov, 2023
Berlin, Germany
Eötvös: Sleepless

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

 

Musical Director: Peter Eötvös
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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2 Dec, 2023
Budapest, Hungary
Eötvös: Valuska

Hungarian Premiere

Libretto:
by Mari Mezei and Kinga Keszthelyi
Based on the novel of László Krasznahorkai:
The Melancholy of Resistance
Director: Bence Varga
Conductor: Kálmán Szennai

Cast:

Hangelmayer/Narrator:  Tünde Szalontay
Valuska János: Zsolt Haja
Pflaumné: Adrienn Miksch
Tünde: Tünde Szabóki
Parasztasszony: Mária Farkasréti
Tanárúr: András Hábetler
Posztókabátos férfi/Katona: Krisztián Cser
Direktor: István Horváth
A Herceg segédje: Balázs Papp
Nadabán: Aron Otto Johansson
Mádai: András Kiss
Volent: János Szerekován
Főtiszt: Attila Erdős
Kalauz: Zoltán Bátki Fazekas

Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and Choir

 

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