We have heared a lot about funding the opera or the LUMU in the Hungarian art world's news, but what is really behind all the full house performances... Of course hard work from both side, actors do rehearse at always changing conditions and adapt their best skills to their changing surroundings. As for the arts managers, they have the same job on the organisational and fiscal side. They have to keep the show within he budget with maximum profitability and arrange the best, usually the most expensive artists, for the season.
The "star cult" is however not a new phenomena, it's been created with the castratos, when the entire salary of one castrato cost approximately the 1/6 of all the functioning costs of the opera hose. In contrast today the Hungarian Opera House has a budget ~5bill HUF which would mean a few hundred forints just for one star singer.
The case has not changed in its basics however, bacuse a top pianist may asks even 25mill HUF for a night, an incredible ammount of cash for an institution in a country where state support is not high enough to cover such 'luxorious experiences'.
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