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 twelve 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.
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. Not only the topics of his operas reflect on today’s world, but he also often uses contemporary source texts as librettos. Currently, he is working on two operas commissioned by the Berlin State Opera and the Hungarian State Opera House.
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Hagen, Germany
Conductor: Joseph Trafton
Stage director: Friederike Blum
Set designer: Tassilo Tesche
Costume designer: Tassilo Tesche
Dramaturge: Rebecca Graitl, Francis Hüsers
Irina: Dorothea Brandt
Mascha: Maria Markina
Olga: Lucie Ceralová
Natascha: Vera Ivanović
Doctor: Anton Kuzenok
Rodé: Ilja Aksionov
Andrei: Kenneth Mattice
Vershinin: Insu Hwang
Tusenbach: Dmitri Vargin
Kulygin: Dong- Won Seo
Orchestra
Philharmonisches Orchester Hagen
Ensemble Musikfabrik Köln
Halle, Germany
Conductor: José Miguel Esandi
Scene: Katharina Kastening
Set: Jon Bausor
Video: Tal Rosner
Dramaturge: Carlo Mertens
The young woman / The little one : Vanessa Waldhart
The woman over sixty: (Alte Köchin, Enkeltochter, Ameise, Hans, Chinesische Mutter): Yulia Sokolik
The young man (Junger Asiate, Kellnerin, Großvater, Chinesische Grille, Chinesische Tante): Robert Sellier
The man over sixty (Alter Asiate, Eva, Freund der Enkeltochter, Chinesischer Vater): Chulhyun Kim
The man: (Ein Asiate, Inga, Chinesischer Onkel): Andreas Beinhauer
Hagen, Germany
Conductor: Joseph Trafton
Stage director: Friederike Blum
Set designer: Tassilo Tesche
Costume designer: Tassilo Tesche
Dramaturge: Rebecca Graitl, Francis Hüsers
Irina: Dorothea Brandt
Mascha: Maria Markina
Olga: Lucie Ceralová
Natascha: Vera Ivanović
Doctor: Anton Kuzenok
Rodé: Ilja Aksionov
Andrei: Kenneth Mattice
Vershinin: Insu Hwang
Tusenbach: Dmitri Vargin
Kulygin: Dong- Won Seo
Orchestra
Philharmonisches Orchester Hagen
Ensemble Musikfabrik Köln
Stavanger, Norway
Orchestra Festival
János Balázs, piano
Conductor: Peter Eötvös