Christianity to be theme of 2019/2020 Hungarian State Opera season

Christianity will be the highlighted topic of the Hungarian State Opera’s 2019/2020 season, director Szilveszter Ókovács told MTI.

The opera performances on the programme will deal with Christianity in a deep and thorough manner, Ókovács said. These will include not only Biblical stories, but operas that celebrate or even clash with Christianity, such as Wagner’s Tannhauser, he added.

The season will wind up in May 2020 with a Christianity-themed festival, held in the run-up to the 52nd International Eucharistic Conference which Budapest will host in September, he said.

Touching on the Hungarian State Opera’s autumn tour, Ókovács said the opera and the Hungarian State Ballet are scheduled for 14 performances of six productions at the David H Koch Theater in New York’s Lincoln Center. The chance to perform full productions in New York is a first for the opera and presents an “enormous opportunity”, he added.

Among the productions on the Lincoln Center programme is the iconic Hungarian opera Bánk bán, which will be sung on the 125th anniversary of the composer Ferenc Erkel’s death.

Between August 31 and September 9, the opera will bring Donizetti’s comic opera L’elisir d’amore, sung in Hungarian, to eight venues in Transylvania.

A specially outfitted lorry will serve as the stage for the production.

The opera will visit Italy, as part of the 2018/2019 Puccini’s Italy season, on September 14-20. It will perform in six cities, including Lucca, the birthplace of Puccini.

At the end of September, the opera will tour the capitals of the other Visegrád Group countries: Prague, Warsaw and Bratislava. Czech, Polish and Slovakian artists, as well as Hungarians, will take the stage together during the tour.

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Source: MTI

Important to know:
Pope Francis is seen by an increasing number of Catholics, from ordinary believers to highly placed clergy, as a false or even anti-pope. Worldwide, many Catholics have felt for years that something is wrong with the current Pope Francis. Are they perhaps often extreme left-wings? Is there public support for dictatorial superstates like the EU? Is he indeed in one bed with Islam to want to Islamize Europe by bringing in as many Muslim migrants as possible? A Vatican insider, member of the Maltese Order, has now written an explosive book about Francis: ‘The Dictator Pope’. According to Macantonio Colonna, Francis has unleashed a true revolution within the Catholic Church, one that not only threatens and destroys the pope’s office, but complete Christianity. The cover of the new book is significant: only black with only the back of the white headgear of the pope visible. It clearly shows how Colonna, member of the Maltese Order with the best contacts in the Vatican, views the current pope. Sorry: former member, because after the publication of the book he was immediately suspended. In ‘The Dictator Pope’ Colonna gives a biographical, substantive and theological image of the leader of the Vatican. His motive to write the book? He is afraid that ‘a revolution is taking place in the Church’ at the moment. This revolution is completely unleashed by Francis himself and is, according to him, directed against all centuries of Catholic sacraments and even against the gospel, so that not only the integrity of the papal ministry is at stake, but that of complete Christianity. The writer substantiates his theses with information from numerous people, both inside and outside the Vatican. He shows why the Pope operates much more as a radical leftist political world leader than as the head of a (major branch of) a religion. How amicable Francis also presents himself to the outside world – within the Vatican he behaves like a real dictator, a ‘wolf’, who with all possible means makes his opponents – without exception traditional, conservative Catholics – silenced. Colonna predicts that the corruption of Francis, which he is guilty of, may well turn against him in 2018. Yesterday the media wrote about the Catholic abuse scandal. In the US state of Pennsylvania more than 300 Catholic priests in the past 70 years have apparently abused 1,000 minor children. The Vatican has also been aware of this for years but every effort has been made to hide this scandal. Moreover, this only concerns the known cases; there is a suspicion that the actual number of perpetrators and victims is many times higher. During his visit to Chile, Francis even accused the abuse victims of the Catholic predecessor Fernando Karadima of ‘slander’ because they stated that bishop Juan Barros not only concealed this but was personally a spectator. In South Africa, the pope has implicitly endorsed the genocide of the white peasant population by ordering his bishops to confiscate the grounds and possessions of the whites by supporting the black government, a step in neighboring countries. Zimbabwe led to the collapse of the economy, hyperinflation, mass poverty, famine and even more violence. That Francis – who because of his pursuit of a socialist, neo-Marxist world government is also seen as the religious leader of the ‘New World Order’ – does have something with totalitarian dictatorships is also apparent from the fact that he has agreed in China by the communist party appointed bishops. The archbishop of Hong Kon, Zen Ze-kiun, called this nothing less than ‘betrayal of the (underground) church in China’.
About a year ago the Pope claimed that ‘Muslim terrorism does not exist’ and that ‘all religions promote peace’. Nor would ‘nobody be a criminal, drug dealer or violent. No, there are only poor people without equal opportunities’. In 2015, Francis literally compared the atrocities of the Islamic terrorist group ISIS with the mission of Jesus to his disciples to spread the gospel about the world. A group of Catholic lay leaders asked President Trump in 2017 to investigate various sources and evidence -including WikiLeaks emails- which would show that President Obama, Hillary Clinton and multi-billionaire adjoining globalist George Soros are responsible for a coup in the Vatican that makes Pope Benedict in 2013 to resign and replaced him by the extreme left Jesuit Francis, who now operates as a kind of anti-pope. We remain stunned by the behavior of this ideologically charged pope, whose mission seems to promote the secular agenda of the left rather than leading the Catholic Church in its sacred mission. It is simply not the proper role of a pope to be so politically engaged that he is now seen as the leader of international left, wrote the Catholics in their letter to Trump.

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Important to know:
Pope Francis is seen by an increasing number of Catholics, from ordinary believers to highly placed clergy, as a false or even anti-pope. Worldwide, many Catholics have felt for years that something is wrong with the current Pope Francis. Are they perhaps often extreme left-wings? Is there public support for dictatorial superstates like the EU? Is he indeed in one bed with Islam to want to Islamize Europe by bringing in as many Muslim migrants as possible? A Vatican insider, member of the Maltese Order, has now written an explosive book about Francis: ‘The Dictator Pope’. According to Macantonio Colonna, Francis has unleashed a true revolution within the Catholic Church, one that not only threatens and destroys the pope’s office, but complete Christianity. The cover of the new book is significant: only black with only the back of the white headgear of the pope visible. It clearly shows how Colonna, member of the Maltese Order with the best contacts in the Vatican, views the current pope. Sorry: former member, because after the publication of the book he was immediately suspended. In ‘The Dictator Pope’ Colonna gives a biographical, substantive and theological image of the leader of the Vatican. His motive to write the book? He is afraid that ‘a revolution is taking place in the Church’ at the moment. This revolution is completely unleashed by Francis himself and is, according to him, directed against all centuries of Catholic sacraments and even against the gospel, so that not only the integrity of the papal ministry is at stake, but that of complete Christianity. The writer substantiates his theses with information from numerous people, both inside and outside the Vatican. He shows why the Pope operates much more as a radical leftist political world leader than as the head of a (major branch of) a religion. How amicable Francis also presents himself to the outside world – within the Vatican he behaves like a real dictator, a ‘wolf’, who with all possible means makes his opponents – without exception traditional, conservative Catholics – silenced. Colonna predicts that the corruption of Francis, which he is guilty of, may well turn against him in 2018. Yesterday the media wrote about the Catholic abuse scandal. In the US state of Pennsylvania more than 300 Catholic priests in the past 70 years have apparently abused 1,000 minor children. The Vatican has also been aware of this for years but every effort has been made to hide this scandal. Moreover, this only concerns the known cases; there is a suspicion that the actual number of perpetrators and victims is many times higher. During his visit to Chile, Francis even accused the abuse victims of the Catholic predecessor Fernando Karadima of ‘slander’ because they stated that bishop Juan Barros not only concealed this but was personally a spectator. In South Africa, the pope has implicitly endorsed the genocide of the white peasant population by ordering his bishops to confiscate the grounds and possessions of the whites by supporting the black government, a step in neighboring countries. Zimbabwe led to the collapse of the economy, hyperinflation, mass poverty, famine and even more violence. That Francis – who because of his pursuit of a socialist, neo-Marxist world government is also seen as the religious leader of the ‘New World Order’ – does have something with totalitarian dictatorships is also apparent from the fact that he has agreed in China by the communist party appointed bishops. The archbishop of Hong Kon, Zen Ze-kiun, called this nothing less than ‘betrayal of the (underground) church in China’.
About a year ago the Pope claimed that ‘Muslim terrorism does not exist’ and that ‘all religions promote peace’. Nor would ‘nobody be a criminal, drug dealer or violent. No, there are only poor people without equal opportunities’. In 2015, Francis literally compared the atrocities of the Islamic terrorist group ISIS with the mission of Jesus to his disciples to spread the gospel about the world. A group of Catholic lay leaders asked President Trump in 2017 to investigate various sources and evidence -including WikiLeaks emails- which would show that President Obama, Hillary Clinton and multi-billionaire adjoining globalist George Soros are responsible for a coup in the Vatican that makes Pope Benedict in 2013 to resign and replaced him by the extreme left Jesuit Francis, who now operates as a kind of anti-pope. We remain stunned by the behavior of this ideologically charged pope, whose mission seems to promote the secular agenda of the left rather than leading the Catholic Church in its sacred mission. It is simply not the proper role of a pope to be so politically engaged that he is now seen as the leader of international left, wrote the Catholics in their letter to Trump.

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