The Hungarian State Opera “is in the midst of one of its biggest expansions ever, thanks to the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars by the increasingly autocratic right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who … has described Hungary’s theaters, opera houses and concert halls as ‘temples of national culture.'” Yet there have been political attacks on some of the company’s programming, and most of Hungary’s internationally famous classical musicians are vehement opponents of Orbán’s government.