| ▼ Advanced Search Items in your shopping basket: 0 items
Print this page

Carmen

Carmen
theater tickets
Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House)
Book now!
Address
Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House)
22 Andrássy út
VI. Budapest  
Hungary
Location Map
Price
£63.00
Prices shown are a guide to standard adult prices generally available, including any applicable per ticket fees - other concessions may also be available.
Booking from
Sun, 17th May 2009
Booking to
Fri, 26th June 2009
Terms & Conditions
Show me more...
• like this
• at this venue
• within walking distance
• around Budapest
Carmen is an opera comique in four acts by Georges Bizet with libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the story of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.

The opera premiered at the Opéra Comique of Paris on 3 March1875, denounced by critics as "immoral" and "superficial".


Budapest is proud of possessing one of the most beautiful opera houses in the world. The opening performance was held in the neo-Renaissance building, the jewel of the avenue, in 1884 after nine years of construction. The staircase and the auditorium of the palace, designed by one of the best architects of those days Miklós Ybl, are decorated with frescos of eminent Hungarian painters. The first director was Ferenc Erkel, Gustav Mahler held this post for several years. Puccini directed the premiere of two of his operas here.