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The Hostage Opera is a socially relevant work that was created through international cooperation. It combines contemporary theatrical and musical forms of expression in an original way, while drawing on knowledge of traditional genres and their contemporary manifestations.

The performance enables the audience to grasp a deeply human and tragic situation through music and theatrical interaction, offering spectators a particularly intense emotional experience.

Who pays the price of freedom? How does it feel to be a hostage? Kidnapped by the sons of a high-ranking politcal party member who wanted to leave behind the state’s socialist climate in Hungary and flee to Austria. What happened during those five nights in 1973 when two young men imprisoned fifteen girls without water or food?

Hungarian writer Csenge Hatala has brought to light the documents relating to the long-concealed history of her hometown and conducted interviews with surviving participants.

We invite you to join us in the search for possible answers to questions that this historical event has rasied for the past 50 years.