HATC SAMPLE EDITION:    Politics & Foreign Relations    Economic News    Business News    Other News of Interest    All stories	2nd April, 2025 Opera House under auditors’ scrutiny An ongoing audit of the Opera House may be behind the cancellation of a press conference called on March 21 to announce the productions and events planned for the Opera’s 142nd season. The Culture and Innovation Ministry run by Balázs Hankó commissioned a noted auditing and consultancy company to examine the institution’s operations in 2025. Observers surmise that the ministry did not want the Hungarian State Opera to commit itself to productions that could be affected by the outcome of the inquiry. Opera House director Szilveszter Ókovács wrote on Facebook last month that the Eiffel Workshop House will host popular operas in the future instead of the Erkel Theatre, giving a glimpse of the productions due in the next season. Among the major popular opera titles he listed were The Gypsy Baron, The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Magic Flute at the Eiffel venue. Sources regularly consulted, with abbreviations used in text: Népszabadság (N); Magyar Hírlap (MH); Világgazdaság (VG); Napi Gazdaság (NG); Magyar Nemzet (MN); Népszava (Nsz); Kossuth Rádió news (KR); nightly TV news (TV).
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