Re.: posts concerning obscure Erkel operas*, let me assure you that
musically discerning non-chauvinists are not all that crazy even about
his big numbers: "Bank ban" and "Hunyadi Laszlo." Certainly, from
personal experience, when you're force-fed one or the other (or both)
week after week... you are really grateful for "Halka" or anything
Polish or Czech.

One of Erkel's most grating products is the somnolent, unctuous
Hungarian national anthem
(http://www.national-anthems.net/windowsmedia/HU). It's such a shame
that Kodaly refused to compose a replacement.

Is there a national anthem that would please a non-nationalistic opera
lover?

/Batori Maria/, opera in two acts, 1840
/Sarolta/, comic opera in three acts, 1862
/Dozsa Gyorgy/, opera in five acts, 1867
/Brankovics Gyorgy/, opera in four acts, 1874
/Nevtelen hosok/ [Unknown heroes], opera in four acts, 1880
/Istvan kiraly/ [King Istvan], opera in four acts, 1885
/Erzsebet/, opera in three acts, composed with Ferenc and Karoly
Doppler, 1857, to be published cca 2020).

Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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