Watch the World Premiere production of Semmelweis, a new 75-minute music-theater work inspired by the tragic story of nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician Ignác Semmelweis (1818-1865), who discovered the cure for a devastating epidemic but could not convince the world of the simple solution, and died alone in an asylum. Dr. Semmelweis had been the first to see an unthinkable truth: that the deadly disease was passing from the bodies of the dead to healthy mothers on the unwashed hands of the doctors themselves.

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Semmelweis received development support in AOP’s First Chance and Composers & the Voice programs. Additional support from The Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project, Ensemble Studio Theater, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Warren Widmann and Ana Berlin.

Premiere September 28, 2018; Budapest Operetta-Theater, Budapest, Hungary; co-production of Budapest Operetta-Theater and Bartók Plusz Opera Festival

Running Time: 75 minutes

Composer Raymond J. Lustig

Text Matthew Doherty

DIRECTOR & CAST

Stage Director - Martin Boross

Music Director - Dániel Dinyés

SZILVESZTER SZABÓ P. - Semmelweis Ignác

ENIKÓ LÉVAI - Susan

TÜNDE FRANKÓ - Párka

VERONIKA NÁDASI - Mária

BARTÓK BÉLA CHAMBER CHORUS OF SZOLNOK

Cast is joined by dancers and other musicians

MORE INFORMATION AT https://doctor-semmelweis.com/