“A Bayadère for Budapest,” by Paul du Quenoy

“A Bayadère for Budapest,” by Paul du Quenoy

Under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s government has invested heavily in the arts, including a massive renovation of Budapest’s Hungarian State Opera House, an imposing structure that dates from 1884. For evidence of the generous resources at hand, one need look no farther than the Hungarian National Ballet’s opulent new production of La Bayadère, staged by Albert Mirzoyan, a longtime dancer with St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater, who la…