Vajda Gergely–Mark Childress: Georgia Bottoms / CAFe 2017

Georgia Bottoms: Rebecca Nelsen

Krystal Lambert: Andrea Meláth

Little Mama: Katalin Károlyi

Nathan: Keith Browning

Reverend Eugene Hendrix: Tibor Szappanos

Brenda Hendrix: Zsófia Nagy

Reverend Brent Colgate: Attila Erdős

Daphne Colgate: Diána Kiss

Dr. Ted Horn / Officer Lester: Roland Tötös

Judge Barnett / Officer Jimmy: Antal Cseh

Sheriff Bill: Bence Gulyás

Featuring: UMZE Chamber Ensemble

Conductor: Gergely Vajda

Libretto: Mark Childress, Gergely Vajda

Set, costumes: Lili Izsák

Musical assistants: Mónika Baja, Szabolcs Sándor

Choreographer: Dóra Barta

Director: András Almási-Tóth

Gergely Vajda’s comic opera had its world premiere in the United States in 2015. Its plot is based on Mark Childress’s Harper Lee Prize winning novel of the same title. It focuses on a woman who tries to get by on the gifts of her wealthier admirers, and whose complicated life, disintegrating family, and a secret she tries to hide from everyone, grip the viewer’s attention from the start.

The tension of the controversial, chaotic or embarrassing situations is eased by humour, though this is barely a comic sequence of events in the conventional sense, since the 9/11 terror attack and the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina are also key elements of the plot.

The English-language production is conducted by the composer himself, whose original voice has invited an ever growing interest worldwide in the past few decades, thanks to such salient features as diverse colours and unusual effects.

An event jointly organized with Liszt Academy.