A multifunctional event space was inaugurated in the attic of the building of the Hungarian State Opera on Andrássy Avenue, reports MTI.

This multifunctional hall was created above the beautifully renovated, historical spaces - emphasised the Deputy Secretary of State for Public Collections and Cultural Developments of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation at the opening on Wednesday. Máté Vincze reminded that the space in the theatre, designed by Miklós Ybl, was created by architect István Medgyaszay - by installing concrete columns in the roof of the roof facing Andrássy Avenue - which functioned as a costume warehouse for more than a hundred years.

Inauguration of the Opera House's new, multifunctional event space in the attic of the Andrássy Avenue building on 2 November 2022, Kossuth Prize-winning opera singer Eszter Sümegi in the picture (Photo: MTI/Tamás Kovács)

Szilveszter Ókovács, the General Director of the Opera House, added that after the past five years of renovation of the building, with the move of the costume warehouse to the Eiffel Workshop, the opera house created a new, 430 square metre, multifunctional event space called the Medgyaszay Hall, based on its own plans.

Behind the Andrássy Avenue facade, it was possible to create an event space with a capacity of about 100 people, which can be used as a home for song evenings, exhibitions, chamber concerts, youth programs, choir and children's choir rehearsals and other events, he said.

According to Szilveszter Ókovács, the Opera House has made the hall suitable for music performances with acoustic elements of its own production, which can be accessed through the gallery stairwells and with the help of the elevators located there.

 General Director Szilveszter Ókovács gives a speech in the Medgyaszay Hall (Photo: MTI/Tamás Kovács)

Source: MTI

Cover photo: The Opera House (Photo: Balázs Both/pestbuda.hu)