St. Kinga's Ring is a musical mystery game

2024.05.18.

On Pentecost Saturday, May 18, after the programs of the Pentecost farewell in Csiksomlyo, the Spectrum Theater in Marosvásárhely will present its musical mystery play Saint Kinga's Ring in the Culture House of Trade Unions in Csikszereda. Peace, prayer, Christianity, and Hungarian-Polish friendship. Admission to the performance is free.

On the 800th anniversary of the birth of St. Kinga of Árpád-háza, the Spectrum Theater in Marosvásárhely pays tribute to IV with a musical mystery play called St. Kinga's ring. Béla's daughter, Queen of the Poles, in front of the miracle worker Clarissa.

On Pentecost Saturday, May 18, the Spectrum Theater in Marosvásárhely will present its musical mystery play Saint Kinga's Ring at the Trade Unions' Cultivation House in Csikszereda. Admission to the performance is free.

The one-act, five-scene mystery play was selected, composed and directed by Török Viola from Hungarian and Polish historical, church, folk, classical and contemporary music and songs.

In a performance dedicated to the most devoted guardians of the medieval religious life, the Moldavian Csángos, the typical melodies of the Hungarian and Polish regions are played, such as Our Lady and its Polish counterpart Bogurodzica, i.e. Mary the Mother of God, the Old Magyar Lamentation found in the monastery founded by Saint Kinga the first Polish polyphonic musical monument, Omnia Beneficia, Moldavian csangó divine folk songs and prayers, Transylvanian and Moldavian bitters, dawn notes, medieval instrumental dance and martial music, Hungarian and Polish folk songs that are still alive today and span centuries. The song Jaka piekna jestes Kingo - How beautiful you are Kinga, sung at Kinga's canonization, will also be performed.

The mystery play ends with György Orbán's hymn written in honor of Saint Kinga.

Date and place of performance:

May 18th, Pentecost Saturday, at 5:00 p.m. in Csíksereda in the Cultural Center of the Trade Unions

Source: vasarhely.ma

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