The Hungarian State Opera has announced the premiere of a new production of Ede Poldini’s “Love Adrift.”

The opera, which will return to the repertory on Feb. 19, 2022, will be presented at Eiffel Art Studios in a production by András Almási-Tóth with Szabolcs Sándor at the podium.

The opera tells the tale of a bunch of strangers who end up quarantined in a house due to bad weather. What falls is a storm of emotions with characters falling in and out of love.

The cast will star Réka Kristóf  and Eszter Zavaros  as Zsuzsika, a young girl suffering from depression while Gyula Rab and Barna Bartos share the role of Kálmán, a young man who falls in love with her. Other cast members include Csaba Szegedi (Péter), Adrienn Miksch (Péter’s wife), Andrea Meláth (Countess), Attila Dobák (Zoltán, a military officer) as well as Bernadett Wiedemann, Rita Rácz, Zoltán Kelemen, and Gabriella Létay Kiss alongside universitystudents Aron Ottó Johannsson and Artúr Szeleczki.

“Love Adrift” premiered in 1924 at the Hungarian State Opera and it went on to be performed more than 100 times until the second World War. After World War II, it was revived in 1948 and ran for a few seasons before  vanishing from the repertoire.