Benczúr Garden Evenings: Free Series Offers Varied Summer Entertainment in Budapest

  • 2 Jun 2025 4:30 PM
Benczúr Garden Evenings: Free Series Offers Varied Summer Entertainment in Budapest
Between June 3 and August 14, classical and pop music, as well as jazz concerts, theatre performances and musical theatre programs await visitors at the Benczúr House Event Center's summer festival, the organisers told MTI.

The open-air festival will open on Tuesday evening with the musical entertainment of the Pénzügyőr Orchestra. The program will also include opera, operetta, musicals, pop and rock music, and Mexican entertainment music.

The five-member Jazzation band will perform on June 18. The Hungarian a cappella group, which has received several professional awards in Europe and overseas, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, and as one of the highlights of the celebration series, it will return to its founding venue, the Benczúr House, the organisers announced.

On June 21, the Night of Museums, the Garden and the Postal Museum located here are preparing a program related to the 200th anniversary of Jókai. The Telephone Reporter, in which the writer himself appeared, will be available to listen to.

In connection with the Hungarian Radio 100! series, the first radio broadcast and the first radio concert will be commemorated. 

In addition, the new temporary exhibition titled Rolling Postmen will be open to the public, where car models present the world of postal delivery vehicles. 

In the Garden, a children's program will be held in the late afternoon, and in the evening, a concert by the Lakatos Mónika FolkTrió will be held.

On June 23, the Sturcz Quartet will join forces with winemaker András Takler. The Music & Wine concert will feature hits by Vivaldi, Piazzolla, Queen, ABBA, Taylor Swift, Hans Zimmer and Coldplay, in unique arrangements, and the audience will also receive a glass of wine with the ticket.

The Musical Club welcomes fans of the genre to Benczúr Kert on the last Wednesday of June and July, with star guests such as Zsuzsi Vágó, Attila Csengeri, Nika, Mónika Horváth, Ádám Pesák and Adrián Kovács.

On July 1st, the Danubia Orchestra will arrive with the best Hungarian music of the past 135 years. There will also be album presentations: Dominika Ács will present her first solo album, Breathing, and the popular vocal group StEFREM will present their Bubnó album.

Theatrical performances are also on the schedule.

In July, the Dérynet a Rock Színházig production will tell the history of Hungarian musical theater, followed by Anna Peller and Károly Peller performing the comedy The Owl and the Kitten. On August 4, Orlai Produkció will present the divorce comedy Whose Dog Will Be?.

On July 21st, the stand-up version of Ferenc László's operetta will be performed for the first time in Benczúr Kert, starring Mónika Fischl, Szilvi Szendy, Gergely Boncsér and Károly Peller.

On July 23, Erika Náray and Zoltán Bereczki will recite songs and stories from the history of the Oscars. On August 8, the International Gypsy Song Day will be held again. This time, the free concert series will feature the bands Muzsikás, Kalyi Jag and more.

On the evening of August 11, the garden will be bathed in candlelight. The Serenata concert will be a special encounter between light and music.

Dorottya Dénes (cello) and Bence Szigeti (guitar) "invite the audience on a timeless journey, where the past and the present meet, and the melodies come alive in the dance of candlelight," the announcement reads.

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The detailed program can be found at www.benczurkertiestek.hu

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