Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
June 27, 2004

MISKOLC OPERA FESTIVAL ATTRACTS OVER 100,000 SPECTATORS

Budapest, June 27 (MTI) – The fourth Miskolc International Opera
Festival, organised in Miskolc (NE Hungary) from June 11 to 26,
attracted about 100,000 music lovers, press chief Eszter Barazda told
MTI on Sunday.

The programme featured altogether 68 performances on five stages of
the local National Theatre, the Calvinist church and the synagogue of
Miskolc as well as six localities in the neighbourhood, she said.

About 20,000 spectators booked tickets to the opera and ballet
performances and concerts while another 80,000 turned up for the free
programmes.

Guest performers included the Hungarian-French Eifman Ballet Theatre,
the Latvian National Opera, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Great Classical Ballet of Moscow, Hungary’s National Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Armenian Serenade Chamber Orchestra, the Slovak
National Theatre and the Ukrainian National Ballet Theatre.