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About the event
World premiere of the film opera Csoma, directed and composed by: Tibor Szemzö The opera is based on the life and fate of Sándor Csoma, The poor scholar was one of 19th century's great, original pioneers. As a student, before he started university, together with two other fellow-students, he solemnly vowed to devote his life to the task of penetrating Central Asia in quest of the origin of his nation. In the first thirty-five years of his life he prepared himself for the task in Europe, having acquired 13 languages the next twelve years he travelled around as a pilgrim in Asia or lived a life of solitude and privation in the cold of Tibet, learning from Buddhist monks. He spent the remaining eleven years of his life publishing in India parts of the material he had collected himself. [...] His fate was typical of scholarly pioneers. Someone else reaped the rewards of his efforts. To the scholars of his century Csoma was an obscure, Transylvanian figure, abandoned among the Himalayan hills-however, from the summits a giant cast its shadow on Central Asia. (W.W. Hunter) Csoma is a modern multi-media project played simultaneously on screen and on stage. The performance of the narrator (this part will be played by Krystyna Janda), vocalists and instrumentalists will be perfectly synchronised with the image.
This project will be accompanied by a complete review of films of the Hungarian musician, composer and director, whose A Guest of Life (Az élet vendége: Csoma-legendárium, 2006) was screened at last year’s festival and served as an inspiration for creating the film opera Csoma. ticket prices: 40 PLN (full fare), 20 PLN (reduced fare - for holders of festival passes)
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