Wedding Dance: the world's first klezmer musical

The world’s first klezmer musical, the Wedding Dance, will arrive in Tel Aviv

The sometimes touching, then dramatically tense story, recalling the atmosphere of the ‘30s, is set in a Transylvanian-Romanian-Hungarian-Jewish small village. Here you can meet the lovely, yet fallible characters. Rózsi, the beautiful and proud girl who, in a surprising turn of events, may lose the man she loves, the appreciation of the village, everything she has believed in. 

You can get to know András, who loves Rózsi, but has no strength to confront his father. Then, the good old Uncle Herskovics, who has successfully escaped all the difficult situations so far, must now become a hero. Mrs. Blum, who has already been a widow when she finds out his husband’s cheating and its strange consequences. The gendarme sergeant Jonel, who was turned down by Rózsi, but who still wants to get her at all costs. And last but not least Mrs. Majzik who is on the one hand a walking.

You can also see the virtuoso members of the world-famous Budapest Klezmer Band, – being a musical piece that’s really essential – the music was composed by the band leader Ferenc Jávori. We are sure that you will enjoy the heartwarming and pulsating rhythms and these melodies will become real hits.

Created by Ferenc (Fegya) Jávori, Kossuth Prize-winning composer, who, as the founder of Budapest Klezmer Band, represents Hungarian klezmer music better than anyone. The musical was written by István Kállai and György Böhm, the lyrics were written by Tibor Miklós, composed by Ferenc Jávori.

Jávori "Fegya" Ferenc (Mukachevo, 1946. February 10 -) Kossuth Prize-winning Hungarian musician, composer, performer, Artist of Merit. He was born in the Jewish family of Ferenc Jakubovics, her mother wasimprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp while her father was a labor serviceman. He spent his childhood in Munkács, which was then a multinational city, making him more receptive to other cultures. He learned to play the violin, because if he had escaped, he could easily carry this instrument with him. always been interested in klezmer music, a traditional Central European Jewtherefore he visited Gyula Galambos Gypsy Primate, from whom he studied klezmer.

In 1967 he was admitted to the violin department of the Drohobic University of Music, but he also studied piano there. After graduating, he taught music at Nagyszőlős and Huszt . He also set up a band called Eridán under the influence of the Hungarian Dance Festivals , with which he played Soviet hits and got into the Soviets Who knows what? in the finals, later the band was banned by Zionist conspiracy.

He moved to Hungary in 1976 to the Budapest Operetta Theateras a violinist. He was accompanied by Marika Németh, Kamilla Feleki, Erzsébet Galambos and Zsuzsa Lehoczky. In the late 1980s, he became more familiar with the Klezmer music in the United States, and in 1990, he founded the Budapest Klezmer Band, which was a major success at international level. In the 1990s, Imre Kerényi, the then director of the Madách Theater, asked him to make a piece of the violinist on the roof, which was a huge success and finally burst into public awareness. He has won several successful musicals, including the Bride Dance, the world's first klezmer musical.

In 2008, he held his authors' title from Purim to Bride Dance at Müpa in Budapest. In 2011 he collaborated on Zoltán Sztevanovity's album, which received the music of the Wedding Song, by the writer Sztevanovity Dusan. His work has been 2014. On March 14th, he was awarded the Kossuth Prize.

The Israeli Opera, September 12-13, 20:00.

Photos by Eszter Gordon

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