655 result(s) for composer
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Eiffel Art Studios Budapest, 6 February
- 6 Feb 2022 7:00 PM
- classical
Opera in three parts, in English, with Hungarian surtitles
British music is often faulted for having failed to produce a significant composer for three hundred years after Purcell.
If ever a later composer felt it incumbent on himself to look back into England’s past and write a piece based on the work of its most world-famous artistic genius, Shakespeare, it was Benjamin Britten, the ...
Interview 2: H.E. Mr. Bhakavat Tanskul, Former Ambassador of Thailand
- 3 Feb 2022 12:59 PM
1. What’s been happening at work and at home since your first Xpat Interview?
'La fille du régiment' Returns to Hungarian State Opera on 14 January
- 11 Jan 2022 4:07 PM
- community & culture
In a production staged by Csaba Polgár incorporating spoken dialogues by András Péter Kovács, La fille du régiment returns to the repertoire of the Hungarian State Opera on 14 January 2022.
Xpat Interview: H.E. Park Chul-min, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Hungary
- 28 Dec 2021 4:50 PM
Your Excellency, did You have any contact with Hungary before being posted here as Ambassador?
Yvette Bozsik Company: 'Antigone', National Dance Theatre Budapest, 27 December
- 27 Dec 2021 7:00 PM
- contemporary
The Antigone, like Oedipus Rex, is based on the Theban plays.
In Sophocles’s drama, on the basis of which the musical was composed, Antigone's brothers die by each other's hands, the King calls one of them a traitor, but Antigone wants to bury him despite his command.
In the ancient Greek story, morality comes to power, love is trying to overcome the law, but the story eventually ends up ...
A Night of Lyrical Songs, Palace of Arts, 23 November
- 23 Nov 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Best known as the frontman of Kistehén, László Kollár-Klemencz is also a member, along other line-ups, of Budapest Bar, where together with bandleader Róbert Farkas and Marc Dargay, the permanent composer of the Katona József Theatre, he reworks famous songs and chansons.
In the production My Unbridled Horses, they'll perform mainly well-known internationally renowned compositions, but in a ...
Ennio Morricone: 'The Official Concert Celebration', Budapest Aréna, 18 December 2022
- 12 Nov 2021 12:55 PM
- entertainment
The official concert celebration, will be a unique, large scale arena production, curated by Ennio Morricone and conducted by his son, Andrea Morricone. The program will include iconic film scenes and never before seen footage of the Maestro and some of his illustrious collaborators.
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Palace of Arts Budapest, 1 November
- 1 Nov 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir will furnish us with a long-overdue performance of The Dream of Gerontius, a major work from the English late-Romantic composer Edward Elgar - though rarely played in Hungary, it is one of the most important compositions of the early 20th century.
It is no coincidence that the composition will be performed on All Saints' Day, as the piece is an ...
Novus String Quartet, Liszt Academy Budapest, 30 September
- 30 Oct 2021 7:00 PM
- classical
The quartet is the pinnacle of chamber music playing. It is a field of classical music that requires adaptation and a measure of independence from the performers. Not everyone is suited to the string quartet.
In fact, they say you have to be born for it. Members of one of South Korea’s leading chamber music formations are musicians born for the quartet formation; they generated a real storm ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Eiffel Art Studios Budapest, 6 February
- 6 Feb 2022 7:00 PM
- classical
Opera in three parts, in English, with Hungarian surtitles
British music is often faulted for having failed to produce a significant composer for three hundred years after Purcell.
If ever a later composer felt it incumbent on himself to look back into England’s past and write a piece based on the work of its most world-famous artistic genius, Shakespeare, it was Benjamin Britten, the ...
Interview 2: H.E. Mr. Bhakavat Tanskul, Former Ambassador of Thailand
- 3 Feb 2022 12:59 PM
1. What’s been happening at work and at home since your first Xpat Interview?
'La fille du régiment' Returns to Hungarian State Opera on 14 January
- 11 Jan 2022 4:07 PM
- community & culture
In a production staged by Csaba Polgár incorporating spoken dialogues by András Péter Kovács, La fille du régiment returns to the repertoire of the Hungarian State Opera on 14 January 2022.
Xpat Interview: H.E. Park Chul-min, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Hungary
- 28 Dec 2021 4:50 PM
Your Excellency, did You have any contact with Hungary before being posted here as Ambassador?
Yvette Bozsik Company: 'Antigone', National Dance Theatre Budapest, 27 December
- 27 Dec 2021 7:00 PM
- contemporary
The Antigone, like Oedipus Rex, is based on the Theban plays.
In Sophocles’s drama, on the basis of which the musical was composed, Antigone's brothers die by each other's hands, the King calls one of them a traitor, but Antigone wants to bury him despite his command.
In the ancient Greek story, morality comes to power, love is trying to overcome the law, but the story eventually ends up ...
A Night of Lyrical Songs, Palace of Arts, 23 November
- 23 Nov 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
Best known as the frontman of Kistehén, László Kollár-Klemencz is also a member, along other line-ups, of Budapest Bar, where together with bandleader Róbert Farkas and Marc Dargay, the permanent composer of the Katona József Theatre, he reworks famous songs and chansons.
In the production My Unbridled Horses, they'll perform mainly well-known internationally renowned compositions, but in a ...
Ennio Morricone: 'The Official Concert Celebration', Budapest Aréna, 18 December 2022
- 12 Nov 2021 12:55 PM
- entertainment
The official concert celebration, will be a unique, large scale arena production, curated by Ennio Morricone and conducted by his son, Andrea Morricone. The program will include iconic film scenes and never before seen footage of the Maestro and some of his illustrious collaborators.
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Palace of Arts Budapest, 1 November
- 1 Nov 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir will furnish us with a long-overdue performance of The Dream of Gerontius, a major work from the English late-Romantic composer Edward Elgar - though rarely played in Hungary, it is one of the most important compositions of the early 20th century.
It is no coincidence that the composition will be performed on All Saints' Day, as the piece is an ...
Novus String Quartet, Liszt Academy Budapest, 30 September
- 30 Oct 2021 7:00 PM
- classical
The quartet is the pinnacle of chamber music playing. It is a field of classical music that requires adaptation and a measure of independence from the performers. Not everyone is suited to the string quartet.
In fact, they say you have to be born for it. Members of one of South Korea’s leading chamber music formations are musicians born for the quartet formation; they generated a real storm ...