Summer Festival: Bass Paradise

This electrifying festival goes beyond your typical electronic music event, putting the spotlight firmly on pounding basslines and driving drum beats, well that's what they say!

11 July - Törökbálint

Summer Festival: EFOTT

The biggest student party in the country will be rocking again at Lake Velence this year to the delight of fans of retro, alternative, and R’n’B - even jazz fans can find their favourite music style featured here this year. BTW you don't have to be a student to attend!

12 July - Lake Velence

Summer Festival: Bánkitó

Underscored by eco-consciousness, this green focused festival takes place by a lake in the village of Bánk in Nógrád County, north of Budapest. It's said to be the ultimate summer music and cultural extravaganza with a social mission...

13 July - Bánk

Classical Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto

The popularity of Verdi's work is no accident: with Shakespearean profundity and thrilling music, it depicts a tragedy of acceptance, love and self-sacrifice.

14 July - Opera House Budapest

Banksy in Budapest: 'The Street is a Canvas'

He’s world famous but still a mystery – Banksy, the Bristol-born and to this day anonymous graffiti artist and painter, known for challenging the boundaries of the art market.

15 July - Komplex Budapest

'Tuesday Madness' by Truesounds Music and Zenebona Records

The best weekday electro party in Budapest on board a boat for lovers of Organic, Deep, Progressive, Melodic House, and of course Techno.

16 July - A38 Ship Budapest

Contemporary Gig: Colin Vallon & Vincent Courtois Present Sonata

Patiently repeated motifs, folk songs, fierce grooves or angular polyphonies plunge the listener into a state of stupor, as in a recurring dream that would be half remembered.

17 July - Opus Jazz Club Budapest