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The Birth Of Colour In Budapest
- 3 Oct 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
By Mary Murphy: Art confuses me. I know what I like and what I don’t like, but when it comes to what period came when and which artist belonged to what movement, my ignorance is embarrassing. I couldn’t tell a Manet from a Monet were my life to depend on it.
New Orleans Swing Festival, Mupa, 26 - 28 August
- 22 Aug 2016 10:00 AM
- entertainment
Swing, the pop music of jazz, first drove dancefloor devils into frenzy during the 1930s, and today it is once again as popular as it was then. In the United States, these pleasantly rolling melodies owe their unbelievable popularity to “The Golden Age of Radio”.
Zemplén Festival, Now On Until 21 August
- 18 Aug 2016 11:40 AM
- community & culture
The 'Zempléni Fesztivál' celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with an outstanding program of musical events. The first major festival established in the Tokaj Wine Region brings some of Hungary’s best talent together for a week and a half of music. Classical, jazz, folk, church – you’ll find something to your taste in inspired and unusual venues from castles to hunting lodges, churches to ...
Zemplén Festival Celebrates 25 Years Of Classical, Jazz
- 4 Aug 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
The Zemplén Festival in northeastern Hungary will celebrate its 25th anniversary, with a focus on classical music and jazz, between August 12 and 21. Some sixty events will be held at over thirty venues in nearly twenty towns and villages, festival director Miklós Turjányi told public news channel M1.
Korea-Hungary Classical Music Festival, MOM Cultural Center, Now On Until 22 September
- 2 Aug 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
Two Korean opera singers open the 1st Korea-Hungary Classical Music Festival with famous opera arias and Korean songs. Yunah Lee, performing frequently at the US opera houses, is broadening her stage to Europe. She is thrilling the audience with “handsomely colored full lyric sound”. Jaeheui Kwon, a young tenor based in Italy, is performing at Teatro alla Scala and the Korean National Opera. T
Open-Air Opera In Budapest, Giuseppe Verdi: Otello, 31 July
- 21 Jul 2016 12:35 PM
- community & culture
Many agree that Verdi’s most magnificent creation is Otello, an opera based on Shakespeare’s tragedy. Xpats can check it out at the open-air stage in the heart of Budapest on Margaret Island, as world famous soprano Andrea Rost and American tenor Marc Heller playing the leading roles at the end of this month.
International Choral Celebration - Opening Concert, National Concert Hall, 9 July
- 8 Jul 2016 5:04 AM
- community & culture
Last year's Choral Celebration proved it: choral music is truly fascinating and has countless faces. This concert, at which the cream of the crop of the choral music world are making their Budapest débuts, attempts to give a taste of these, with something worth looking at for everybody: spiritual life, African music of primal power and the exhilarating sounds of the Balkans, as well as the gentle ...
'Bull's Blood Festival', Eger, 7 - 10 July
- 7 Jul 2016 11:50 AM
- food & drink
Egri Bikavér Festival is a celebration of the city’s famous son, it is not just an occasion for oenophiles, far from it, there are programs to keep all ages up to no good for the four days the festival lasts. Egri Bikavér or Bull’s Blood is, of course, the main attraction, almost 40 cellars will have stands at the festival serving Bikavér, and alongside them will be more than 20 local chefs ...
Olympics & Politics Exhibition, Galeria Centralis, 23 June - 28 August
- 21 Jun 2016 9:02 AM
- entertainment
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Berlin Summer Olympics and the Olimpíada Popular, the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives presents the exhibition Olympics and Politics – Berlin / Barcelona 1936, which examines how these international sporting events became the terrains for ideological and physical battles in the heavily politicised 1930s, and how the two Games acquired ...
The Birth Of Colour In Budapest
- 3 Oct 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
By Mary Murphy: Art confuses me. I know what I like and what I don’t like, but when it comes to what period came when and which artist belonged to what movement, my ignorance is embarrassing. I couldn’t tell a Manet from a Monet were my life to depend on it.
New Orleans Swing Festival, Mupa, 26 - 28 August
- 22 Aug 2016 10:00 AM
- entertainment
Swing, the pop music of jazz, first drove dancefloor devils into frenzy during the 1930s, and today it is once again as popular as it was then. In the United States, these pleasantly rolling melodies owe their unbelievable popularity to “The Golden Age of Radio”.
Zemplén Festival, Now On Until 21 August
- 18 Aug 2016 11:40 AM
- community & culture
The 'Zempléni Fesztivál' celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with an outstanding program of musical events. The first major festival established in the Tokaj Wine Region brings some of Hungary’s best talent together for a week and a half of music. Classical, jazz, folk, church – you’ll find something to your taste in inspired and unusual venues from castles to hunting lodges, churches to ...
Zemplén Festival Celebrates 25 Years Of Classical, Jazz
- 4 Aug 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
The Zemplén Festival in northeastern Hungary will celebrate its 25th anniversary, with a focus on classical music and jazz, between August 12 and 21. Some sixty events will be held at over thirty venues in nearly twenty towns and villages, festival director Miklós Turjányi told public news channel M1.
Korea-Hungary Classical Music Festival, MOM Cultural Center, Now On Until 22 September
- 2 Aug 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
Two Korean opera singers open the 1st Korea-Hungary Classical Music Festival with famous opera arias and Korean songs. Yunah Lee, performing frequently at the US opera houses, is broadening her stage to Europe. She is thrilling the audience with “handsomely colored full lyric sound”. Jaeheui Kwon, a young tenor based in Italy, is performing at Teatro alla Scala and the Korean National Opera. T
Open-Air Opera In Budapest, Giuseppe Verdi: Otello, 31 July
- 21 Jul 2016 12:35 PM
- community & culture
Many agree that Verdi’s most magnificent creation is Otello, an opera based on Shakespeare’s tragedy. Xpats can check it out at the open-air stage in the heart of Budapest on Margaret Island, as world famous soprano Andrea Rost and American tenor Marc Heller playing the leading roles at the end of this month.
International Choral Celebration - Opening Concert, National Concert Hall, 9 July
- 8 Jul 2016 5:04 AM
- community & culture
Last year's Choral Celebration proved it: choral music is truly fascinating and has countless faces. This concert, at which the cream of the crop of the choral music world are making their Budapest débuts, attempts to give a taste of these, with something worth looking at for everybody: spiritual life, African music of primal power and the exhilarating sounds of the Balkans, as well as the gentle ...
'Bull's Blood Festival', Eger, 7 - 10 July
- 7 Jul 2016 11:50 AM
- food & drink
Egri Bikavér Festival is a celebration of the city’s famous son, it is not just an occasion for oenophiles, far from it, there are programs to keep all ages up to no good for the four days the festival lasts. Egri Bikavér or Bull’s Blood is, of course, the main attraction, almost 40 cellars will have stands at the festival serving Bikavér, and alongside them will be more than 20 local chefs ...
Olympics & Politics Exhibition, Galeria Centralis, 23 June - 28 August
- 21 Jun 2016 9:02 AM
- entertainment
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Berlin Summer Olympics and the Olimpíada Popular, the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives presents the exhibition Olympics and Politics – Berlin / Barcelona 1936, which examines how these international sporting events became the terrains for ideological and physical battles in the heavily politicised 1930s, and how the two Games acquired ...