In 2003 the Greek conductor Konstantia Gourzi, who is also active as a composer, was commissioned by the Staatsoper of Berlin to complete Haydn’s opera Philemon and Baucis, that has survived only in fragments. The work, written for a puppet theatre and first performed in 1773, is based on the archetypal story of the old couple unable to live without each other. The work, that was staged with enormous success in Berlin, will be conducted by the composer in the Railway Nostalgia Park. Balázs Kovalik will be in charge of the stage production.

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