16 result(s) for artistic director in Events
Recirquel: 'Crystal", Millenáris Budapest, 20 December
- 20 Dec 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Awaiting adults and children alike at Millenáris is the magical world of Kristály, where amazing fairy-tale images frozen in glistening ice come to life before the eyes of the audience, and with their involvement.
This contemporary circus production conceived by artistic director Bence Vági recalls classic fairy tales with a story of how the mistress of the Crystal World loses her faith in ...
Richard Wagner: Parsifal, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, 31 March
- 31 Mar 2024 4:00 PM
- classical
In Parsifal, his final music drama, Wagner embeds fear of the temptations of the world and sinful desires into a tale of redemption. The work is indeed a festival play for the stage rather than an opera.
Many viewers – perhaps out of their own fears – criticised Wagner, who wrote both the libretto and the music, for what could be called the piece’s virtue and remarkable complexity, which is ...
Recirquel: Crystal, Millenáris Park, 16 December
- 16 Dec 2023 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Recirquel returns this winter season with a renewed version of Kristály, which has been playing to full houses for years. Awaiting children and adults alike in the Millenáris Glass Hall is a magical world evoking the atmosphere of the festive season in which the amazing fairy tale images frozen in sparkling ice come to life before the spectators and get them involved in the show.
This ...
Ballet Pécs: Carmina Burana, Opera House Budapest, 13 December
- 3 Dec 2023 7:00 PM
- classical
Carmina Burana is an unavoidable subject, a great task that is nevertheless a wonderful challenge in the career of a choreographer and one that sooner or later draws the creative artist to it. Orff's composition elevates the medieval student songs to a loftier region.
The majesty of the music inspires the choreographer to bear testimony to this self-destructive and mechanised world with an ...
'The Rhinegold', Palace of Arts Budapest, 15 June
- 15 Jun 2023 6:00 PM
- classical
Das Rheingold is the introduction to the storyline, depicting the central conflict. Starting from a primeval state of peace, the opera shows how the original sin was committed, triggering a chain of events that eventually lead to complete annihilation.
Over and over again, one is haunted by the suspicion that the myth is not about gods, giants and dwarfs, but about ourselves: it is not so ...
Iván Nagy International Ballet Gala, Opera House Budapest, 27 May
- 27 May 2023 7:00 PM
- classical
2014 saw the sudden passing of the international ballet artist and ballet director Iván Nagy. After his retirement, he had returned to serve his country by working as head artistic consultant for the Hungarian State Opera.
He used his wide-ranging knowledge of the profession to help the work of the Hungarian National Ballet; his departure left a gaping hole in the members of the corps de ...
Roberto Fonseca: 'La Gran Diversion', Erkel Theatre Budapest, 13 May
- 13 May 2022 8:30 PM
- classical
This time, Roberto Fonseca, artistic director of the world-famousBuena Vista Social Club, invites us on a musical journey to the heady and sultry world of the 30s.
La Gran Diversión is a tribute to the golden age of Cuban music, the wild nights of Havana, a real journey through time and space back to the jazz clubs of the 1930s, the famous Cabane Cubaine in Paris or the Cotton Club, whose ...
Recirquel Budapest: 'Crystal', Mupa Tent Budapest 26 December
- 26 Dec 2021 11:00 AM
- contemporary
This contemporary circus production conceived by artistic director Bence Vági recalls classic fairy tales with a story of how the mistress of the Kristály World loses her faith in human emotions and decides to freeze everything and seclude herself behind glittering walls of ice.
Together, the audience and the artists in the performance will seek hope in the warmth of love and light through a ...
Winter Contemporary Circus Fairy Tale, Palace of Arts Budapest, 26 December
- 26 Dec 2021 11:00 AM
- contemporary
Recirquel will return again this winter season with a new production evoking the atmosphere of the end-of-year holidays.
Awaiting adults and children alike in the enormous, snow-covered circus tent set up in front of the Müpa Budapest building is the magical world of Kristály, where amazing fairy-tale images frozen in glistening ice come to life before the eyes of the audience, and with their ...
Recirquel: 'Crystal", Millenáris Budapest, 20 December
- 20 Dec 2024 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Awaiting adults and children alike at Millenáris is the magical world of Kristály, where amazing fairy-tale images frozen in glistening ice come to life before the eyes of the audience, and with their involvement.
This contemporary circus production conceived by artistic director Bence Vági recalls classic fairy tales with a story of how the mistress of the Crystal World loses her faith in ...
Richard Wagner: Parsifal, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, 31 March
- 31 Mar 2024 4:00 PM
- classical
In Parsifal, his final music drama, Wagner embeds fear of the temptations of the world and sinful desires into a tale of redemption. The work is indeed a festival play for the stage rather than an opera.
Many viewers – perhaps out of their own fears – criticised Wagner, who wrote both the libretto and the music, for what could be called the piece’s virtue and remarkable complexity, which is ...
Recirquel: Crystal, Millenáris Park, 16 December
- 16 Dec 2023 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Recirquel returns this winter season with a renewed version of Kristály, which has been playing to full houses for years. Awaiting children and adults alike in the Millenáris Glass Hall is a magical world evoking the atmosphere of the festive season in which the amazing fairy tale images frozen in sparkling ice come to life before the spectators and get them involved in the show.
This ...
Ballet Pécs: Carmina Burana, Opera House Budapest, 13 December
- 3 Dec 2023 7:00 PM
- classical
Carmina Burana is an unavoidable subject, a great task that is nevertheless a wonderful challenge in the career of a choreographer and one that sooner or later draws the creative artist to it. Orff's composition elevates the medieval student songs to a loftier region.
The majesty of the music inspires the choreographer to bear testimony to this self-destructive and mechanised world with an ...
'The Rhinegold', Palace of Arts Budapest, 15 June
- 15 Jun 2023 6:00 PM
- classical
Das Rheingold is the introduction to the storyline, depicting the central conflict. Starting from a primeval state of peace, the opera shows how the original sin was committed, triggering a chain of events that eventually lead to complete annihilation.
Over and over again, one is haunted by the suspicion that the myth is not about gods, giants and dwarfs, but about ourselves: it is not so ...
Iván Nagy International Ballet Gala, Opera House Budapest, 27 May
- 27 May 2023 7:00 PM
- classical
2014 saw the sudden passing of the international ballet artist and ballet director Iván Nagy. After his retirement, he had returned to serve his country by working as head artistic consultant for the Hungarian State Opera.
He used his wide-ranging knowledge of the profession to help the work of the Hungarian National Ballet; his departure left a gaping hole in the members of the corps de ...
Roberto Fonseca: 'La Gran Diversion', Erkel Theatre Budapest, 13 May
- 13 May 2022 8:30 PM
- classical
This time, Roberto Fonseca, artistic director of the world-famousBuena Vista Social Club, invites us on a musical journey to the heady and sultry world of the 30s.
La Gran Diversión is a tribute to the golden age of Cuban music, the wild nights of Havana, a real journey through time and space back to the jazz clubs of the 1930s, the famous Cabane Cubaine in Paris or the Cotton Club, whose ...
Recirquel Budapest: 'Crystal', Mupa Tent Budapest 26 December
- 26 Dec 2021 11:00 AM
- contemporary
This contemporary circus production conceived by artistic director Bence Vági recalls classic fairy tales with a story of how the mistress of the Kristály World loses her faith in human emotions and decides to freeze everything and seclude herself behind glittering walls of ice.
Together, the audience and the artists in the performance will seek hope in the warmth of love and light through a ...
Winter Contemporary Circus Fairy Tale, Palace of Arts Budapest, 26 December
- 26 Dec 2021 11:00 AM
- contemporary
Recirquel will return again this winter season with a new production evoking the atmosphere of the end-of-year holidays.
Awaiting adults and children alike in the enormous, snow-covered circus tent set up in front of the Müpa Budapest building is the magical world of Kristály, where amazing fairy-tale images frozen in glistening ice come to life before the eyes of the audience, and with their ...