Producer Árpád Zsolt Dancs said at the show’s press conference on Wednesday that the preparations have been going on already for a year, and rehearsals are happening now simultaneously at several locations. “Stephen, the King” returns to Szeklerland this summerĪnd now in 2021, the most popular Hungarian rock opera is going to return to Szeklerland. Half a million people gathered together to be part of this historic event. Twenty years later, in 2003, a catharsis was triggered again, when the play first premiered in Transylvania, 400 kilometers from today’s Hungarian borders in Csíksomlyó (Șumuleu) for the Transylvanian-Hungarian audience. Stephen, the King instantly became a huge revelation for the people in Hungary, who had been living in a communist dictatorship for more than three decades at that time, as they could finally sing freely and be proud again about their thousand-year-long history. This first performance was also filmed and showed later in cinemas all over Hungary while the music was released in the form of a double album on LP and cassette. The premiere was in the summer of 1983 in an open-air stage in the heart of Budapest, in the Városliget (City Park), in front of 120,000 people.

The “Stephen, the King” rock opera was written in the early 1980s by two members of one of the most popular Hungarian rock bands of the 60s and 70s called “Illés.” Music of the rock opera was written by Levente Szörényi, and the lyrics by János Bródy. Participating singers performing excerpts from “Stephen, the King” at the show’s press conference on Main Sepsiszentgyörgy (Photo: Hunor Kristó-Gothárd) According to the plans, it will be played four times in Sepsiszentgyörgy (Sfântu Gheorghe) in the Sepsi Arena on August 20, 2021, the State Foundation Day of the Hungarians, when they commemorate Hungary’s first King, St.

The most popular Hungarian rock opera Stephen, the King (“István, a király” in Hungarian), about the foundation of the Hungarian state from one thousand years ago, is going to be staged in Szeklerland with all Transylvanian-Hungarian artists.

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