26 result(s) for choral festival
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
Laurea Mundi Gala Concert & Awards Ceremony, Mupa, 12 July
- 12 Jul 2016 9:06 AM
- community & culture
The closing event of the Choral Celebration gathers the programmes of the highest-placed and most successful choruses of the festival into a single bouquet. Visitors will get another chance to hear their favourites, the winners of the competitions and those productions from the festival that deserve special attention.
Monumental Concert In Budapest Vigadó - The Legend Of St Elizabeth, 15 August
- 6 Aug 2015 9:04 AM
- community & culture
Reconstructed performance of the 1865 premiere of Franz Liszt's Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth. Franz Liszt's grand scale masterpiece dedicated to the memory of Princess Saint Elisabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) was premierred on 15 August, 1865 in the Pesti Vigadó. In 2015 on the same day and in the same place the commemorial concert of the reconstructed original, Hungarian version of the ...
Special 'Ars Sacra ' Flash Mob @ Fisherman's Bastion In Budapest
- 3 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- video
This unique flash mob was made to be the overture of the 2013 Ars Sacra Festival. The 'Evening Song' (originally "The Evening Prayer") is a folk song that was adapted by Zoltán Kodály for his choral work. This song, expressing the essence of the "Hungarian soul" was sung in one of the most wonderful parts of Budapest.
British Vocal Group Voces8 In Budapest On 28 March
- 20 Mar 2014 9:30 AM
- community & culture
VOCES8, the outstanding vocal ensemble from Britain is coming to its first tour in Hungary, consisting of only three tour dates. To the invitation of Philharmonia Hungary, three Hungarian cities will host the group; they will perform in Veszprém at the Pannon University on 25 March, in Nagykanizsa at the Hevesi Sándor Cultural Centre on 27 March, and for two times, with two different programs in ...
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: Stag Song, Festival Theatre, 30 Jan
- 29 Jan 2014 8:01 AM
- community & culture
The stag is an ancient symbol – and its discarded and regrown antlers have come to represent eternal renewal. The stag is at once a demon, a wizard, and a fairy or king of the dead capable of drawing those who hunt it into a new and different world. For us, the hunters of the 21st century, striving to escape subjugation and find freedom, Szarvasének (Stag Song) conjures up a kind of mythical ...
Video: The Welsh Have Their Day In Budapest
- 16 Mar 2010 7:00 AM
- community & culture
Before Monday, 1 March, my only connection with the little country in the southwestern UK was a joke t-shirt I once had with the logo 'Save the Wales' emblazoned across its chest. And I watched the Welsh rugby side beat England at Twickenham a few years ago. Otherwise, nothing. So I was flattered to be recently invited to the first ever St. David’s Day celebration here in Budapest.
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
Laurea Mundi Gala Concert & Awards Ceremony, Mupa, 12 July
- 12 Jul 2016 9:06 AM
- community & culture
The closing event of the Choral Celebration gathers the programmes of the highest-placed and most successful choruses of the festival into a single bouquet. Visitors will get another chance to hear their favourites, the winners of the competitions and those productions from the festival that deserve special attention.
Monumental Concert In Budapest Vigadó - The Legend Of St Elizabeth, 15 August
- 6 Aug 2015 9:04 AM
- community & culture
Reconstructed performance of the 1865 premiere of Franz Liszt's Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth. Franz Liszt's grand scale masterpiece dedicated to the memory of Princess Saint Elisabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) was premierred on 15 August, 1865 in the Pesti Vigadó. In 2015 on the same day and in the same place the commemorial concert of the reconstructed original, Hungarian version of the ...
Special 'Ars Sacra ' Flash Mob @ Fisherman's Bastion In Budapest
- 3 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- video
This unique flash mob was made to be the overture of the 2013 Ars Sacra Festival. The 'Evening Song' (originally "The Evening Prayer") is a folk song that was adapted by Zoltán Kodály for his choral work. This song, expressing the essence of the "Hungarian soul" was sung in one of the most wonderful parts of Budapest.
British Vocal Group Voces8 In Budapest On 28 March
- 20 Mar 2014 9:30 AM
- community & culture
VOCES8, the outstanding vocal ensemble from Britain is coming to its first tour in Hungary, consisting of only three tour dates. To the invitation of Philharmonia Hungary, three Hungarian cities will host the group; they will perform in Veszprém at the Pannon University on 25 March, in Nagykanizsa at the Hevesi Sándor Cultural Centre on 27 March, and for two times, with two different programs in ...
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: Stag Song, Festival Theatre, 30 Jan
- 29 Jan 2014 8:01 AM
- community & culture
The stag is an ancient symbol – and its discarded and regrown antlers have come to represent eternal renewal. The stag is at once a demon, a wizard, and a fairy or king of the dead capable of drawing those who hunt it into a new and different world. For us, the hunters of the 21st century, striving to escape subjugation and find freedom, Szarvasének (Stag Song) conjures up a kind of mythical ...
Video: The Welsh Have Their Day In Budapest
- 16 Mar 2010 7:00 AM
- community & culture
Before Monday, 1 March, my only connection with the little country in the southwestern UK was a joke t-shirt I once had with the logo 'Save the Wales' emblazoned across its chest. And I watched the Welsh rugby side beat England at Twickenham a few years ago. Otherwise, nothing. So I was flattered to be recently invited to the first ever St. David’s Day celebration here in Budapest.