142 result(s) for house of hungarian music in Community & Culture
Love & Other Demons, Opera House, 25 & 27 May
- 22 May 2017 7:00 AM
- community & culture
Peter Eötvös's fifth opera was commissioned by the Glyndebourne Festival and composed to Kornél Hamvai's multilingual libretto (constructed with elements of Yoruba, Latin and Spanish, in addition to the English) based on Gabriel García Márquez's novella of the same title.
2017/18 At Hungarian Opera: 'Around The Ring'
- 29 Mar 2017 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The Hungarian State Opera’s 2017/18 season will get off to an unusual start, since the Opera House will not be opening its doors in September. The modernisation means that the season will start at the Erkel Theatre, and while there will be fewer programmes than usual, their diversity will match that of previous years: In this season inspired by Wagner’s Ring cycle, there will be 28 opera and ...
2017/18 Season Of Hungarian State Opera: "Around The Ring"
- 7 Mar 2017 6:10 AM
- community & culture
The Hungarian State Opera’s 2017/18 season will get off to an unusual start, since the Opera House will not be opening its doors in September. The modernisation means that the season will start at the Erkel Theatre, and while there will be fewer programmes than usual, their diversity will match that of previous years: In this season inspired by Wagner’s Ring cycle, there will be 28 opera and ...
The Metropolitan Opera: Live In HD, Festival Theater
- 29 Dec 2016 8:02 AM
- community & culture
Making up the 2016/17 programme for the New York Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD simulcast series are two operas each from Mozart and Verdi and one each by Wagner, Gounod, Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Dvořák, as well as a piece from Paris-based Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin. The new season offers four new Met productions, as well as one Met première, for the audience of ...
Now On: Advent With “The Spirit Of Hungaricum”
- 12 Dec 2016 11:30 AM
- community & culture
Now on until 31 December. An extraordinary series of programmes called ‘The Spirit of Hungaricum” is opening in Gerbeaud House near the Vörösmarty tér Advent Fair which has been chosen the most beautiful Christmas Fair in Europe. Organisers offer cultural distractions both to Hungarian visitors and foreign tourists through a china exhibition with hundreds of Herend Porcelain artefacts on display ...
Pianist, Conductor Zoltán Kocsis Laid To Rest
- 22 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Celebrated Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer Zoltán Kocsis, who died at age 64 on November 6, was buried in Budapest on Saturday. The late artist was paid final respects at the Hungarian Academy of Music.
Magic Lamp (Csodalámpa) Foundation Report
- 18 Nov 2016 8:02 AM
- community & culture
We would like to say a special thank in the name of Fruzsina too to the leaders and members of XpatLoop, the largest Hungarian expat community, for organizing the Budapest Bonfire Night Party for Charity and for the donations raised at the event. We would also like to thank our private donors and the KAP charity program of MagNet Hungarian Community Bank for their support, that allowed to grant ...
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble - House of Tradition: Stag Song, Palace Of Arts, 3 November
- 2 Nov 2016 8:06 AM
- community & culture
The stag is an ancient and universal symbol in cultural history - and its discarded and regrown antlers have come to represent eternal renewal. It stands at the entrance to the golden path, bidding us follow into our own spiritual world. The stag is at once a demon, a shaman, a wizard, a fairy or king of the dead, capable of drawing those who hunt it into a new and different world.
Kodály's The Spinning Room – New Production At Budapest Opera, 23 October
- 22 Oct 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
“A people can best be known through their folk songs,” claimed Zoltán Kodály, one of the crucial proponents of Hungarian music, whose main ambition as a composer, collector of folk songs and music teacher was to inculcate a love for Hungarian folk song and to cultivate a knowledgeable audience.
Love & Other Demons, Opera House, 25 & 27 May
- 22 May 2017 7:00 AM
- community & culture
Peter Eötvös's fifth opera was commissioned by the Glyndebourne Festival and composed to Kornél Hamvai's multilingual libretto (constructed with elements of Yoruba, Latin and Spanish, in addition to the English) based on Gabriel García Márquez's novella of the same title.
2017/18 At Hungarian Opera: 'Around The Ring'
- 29 Mar 2017 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The Hungarian State Opera’s 2017/18 season will get off to an unusual start, since the Opera House will not be opening its doors in September. The modernisation means that the season will start at the Erkel Theatre, and while there will be fewer programmes than usual, their diversity will match that of previous years: In this season inspired by Wagner’s Ring cycle, there will be 28 opera and ...
2017/18 Season Of Hungarian State Opera: "Around The Ring"
- 7 Mar 2017 6:10 AM
- community & culture
The Hungarian State Opera’s 2017/18 season will get off to an unusual start, since the Opera House will not be opening its doors in September. The modernisation means that the season will start at the Erkel Theatre, and while there will be fewer programmes than usual, their diversity will match that of previous years: In this season inspired by Wagner’s Ring cycle, there will be 28 opera and ...
The Metropolitan Opera: Live In HD, Festival Theater
- 29 Dec 2016 8:02 AM
- community & culture
Making up the 2016/17 programme for the New York Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD simulcast series are two operas each from Mozart and Verdi and one each by Wagner, Gounod, Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Dvořák, as well as a piece from Paris-based Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin. The new season offers four new Met productions, as well as one Met première, for the audience of ...
Now On: Advent With “The Spirit Of Hungaricum”
- 12 Dec 2016 11:30 AM
- community & culture
Now on until 31 December. An extraordinary series of programmes called ‘The Spirit of Hungaricum” is opening in Gerbeaud House near the Vörösmarty tér Advent Fair which has been chosen the most beautiful Christmas Fair in Europe. Organisers offer cultural distractions both to Hungarian visitors and foreign tourists through a china exhibition with hundreds of Herend Porcelain artefacts on display ...
Pianist, Conductor Zoltán Kocsis Laid To Rest
- 22 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Celebrated Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer Zoltán Kocsis, who died at age 64 on November 6, was buried in Budapest on Saturday. The late artist was paid final respects at the Hungarian Academy of Music.
Magic Lamp (Csodalámpa) Foundation Report
- 18 Nov 2016 8:02 AM
- community & culture
We would like to say a special thank in the name of Fruzsina too to the leaders and members of XpatLoop, the largest Hungarian expat community, for organizing the Budapest Bonfire Night Party for Charity and for the donations raised at the event. We would also like to thank our private donors and the KAP charity program of MagNet Hungarian Community Bank for their support, that allowed to grant ...
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble - House of Tradition: Stag Song, Palace Of Arts, 3 November
- 2 Nov 2016 8:06 AM
- community & culture
The stag is an ancient and universal symbol in cultural history - and its discarded and regrown antlers have come to represent eternal renewal. It stands at the entrance to the golden path, bidding us follow into our own spiritual world. The stag is at once a demon, a shaman, a wizard, a fairy or king of the dead, capable of drawing those who hunt it into a new and different world.
Kodály's The Spinning Room – New Production At Budapest Opera, 23 October
- 22 Oct 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
“A people can best be known through their folk songs,” claimed Zoltán Kodály, one of the crucial proponents of Hungarian music, whose main ambition as a composer, collector of folk songs and music teacher was to inculcate a love for Hungarian folk song and to cultivate a knowledgeable audience.