John Malkovich performs again in Budapest
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The two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor will perform a musical stand-up at Erkel Theatre, Budapest.
According to Index, for the world premiere of the symphonic orchestral production of The Music Critic, American actor John Malkovich will return to Budapest, accompanied by Aleksey Igudesman and the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda, to showcase the entertainment side of classical music, performing some of the most iconic pieces. The character he portrays will recite some of the most wicked quotes and opinions from contemporary reviews between each piece of music on the stage of the Erkel Theatre on 2 October.
Schumann, for example, he says, is a “composer”, Brahms is a “talentless bastard” and Claude Debussy is “simply terrible to listen to”. These pithy observations have been made in reviews of the past centuries, collected by Russian-German violinist and composer Aleksey Igudesman. He uses them to show how the opinions of his contemporaries have not stood the test of time. In the final scene, Malkovich is put on the ‘rack’.
