81 result(s) for director in Events
Song Cycle, Vígszínház Budapest, 18 December
- 18 Dec 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The song cycle Sommerreise will be presented at Víg Szalon, performed by Csilla Radnay and directed by Ági Jókai. The work by composer Péter Wolf and lyricist Péter Fábri is a novel counterpart to Schubert’s Winterreise, written from a female perspective.
Sommerreise is the reverse of Schubert’s epoch-making Winterreise. “What’s the original song cycle? Winterreise. That’s already been ...
Recirquel: Crystal, Millenáris Park, 9 December
- 9 Dec 2025 11:00 AM
- 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 ...
Mupa Film Club: Music Till Death Do Us Part, Palace of Arts Budapest, 17 November
- 17 Nov 2025 1:49 PM
- contemporary
First there was The Graduate (1967) and then there was the rest of the graduate’s life. The story of a one-night stand set in 1962, George Lucas’s second film was nominated for five Oscars, including those for best film, best director and best screenplay.
This is a special road movie as its young protagonists do not make it out onto the open highway – they cruise around town. The dramaturgy ...
Verzio Human Rights Festival: Trust, Boundaries, CEU Auditorium Budapest, 16 November
- 16 Nov 2025 2:00 PM
- community
This discussion focuses on the unique challenges of personal documentaries: how to maintain trust, respect boundaries, and protect close relationships when the director is part of the story.
Requiem, Opera House Budapest, 2 November
- 2 Nov 2025 7:00 PM
- classical
Staged oratorio in Latin, with Hungarian, English, and Latin subtitles
In recent years, even decades, it has become a common practice to completely or partially stage certain oratorical works. After Messiah and Matthäus-Passion, nothing could be more suitable to continue the practice than Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem, which is claimed by many, half-seriously, but certainly aptly, to be their ...
Mozart: Don Giovanni, National Concert Hall Budapest, 9 September
- 9 Sep 2025 7:00 PM
- classical
“You’ll never truly know me,” says the world-famous seducer, and indeed: Don Giovanni’s character has remained unfathomable and endlessly captivating for centuries. Should we sympathise with him? Or condemn him?
Perhaps both? He is a complex and fascinating figure, who, with Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto and Mozart’s music, presents an eternal and rewarding challenge for directors. This is not ...
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, National Concert Hall Budapest, 30 August
- 30 Aug 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
One of the founders of bebop, Dizzy Gillespie was a fantastic musician with a wonderful personality. It is by keeping these values front and centre that the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band continues the tradition started by the legendary trumpet-playing songwriter and band leader.
Artistic integrity and high-quality performance are guaranteed by Gillespie’s former musical collaborator and the ...
Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, Opera House Budapest, 13 August
- 13 Aug 2025 7:00 PM
- classical
The subject of this work sparked Verdi's fiercest battle with the censor of Naples and, later on, of Rome. The original libretto treated an actual historical event: the 1792 regicide of a Swedish king.
However, this proved too delicate a matter given the political situation of the day, and so in order to curry favour with the censor, the king was converted into an earl and the plot ...
Recirquel Budapest: Solus Amor, Festival Theatre Budapest, 4 July
- 4 Jul 2025 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Love is all there is: The latest production by Recirquel, Hungary's leading contemporary circus company, brings forth the only primeval energy that spans space and time to connect us all.
Directed by artistic director Bence Vági, Solus Amor employs "cirque danse”, a genre created with and by the company over the course of several years, in a monumental production drawing its power from our ...
Song Cycle, Vígszínház Budapest, 18 December
- 18 Dec 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The song cycle Sommerreise will be presented at Víg Szalon, performed by Csilla Radnay and directed by Ági Jókai. The work by composer Péter Wolf and lyricist Péter Fábri is a novel counterpart to Schubert’s Winterreise, written from a female perspective.
Sommerreise is the reverse of Schubert’s epoch-making Winterreise. “What’s the original song cycle? Winterreise. That’s already been ...
Recirquel: Crystal, Millenáris Park, 9 December
- 9 Dec 2025 11:00 AM
- 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 ...
Mupa Film Club: Music Till Death Do Us Part, Palace of Arts Budapest, 17 November
- 17 Nov 2025 1:49 PM
- contemporary
First there was The Graduate (1967) and then there was the rest of the graduate’s life. The story of a one-night stand set in 1962, George Lucas’s second film was nominated for five Oscars, including those for best film, best director and best screenplay.
This is a special road movie as its young protagonists do not make it out onto the open highway – they cruise around town. The dramaturgy ...
Verzio Human Rights Festival: Trust, Boundaries, CEU Auditorium Budapest, 16 November
- 16 Nov 2025 2:00 PM
- community
This discussion focuses on the unique challenges of personal documentaries: how to maintain trust, respect boundaries, and protect close relationships when the director is part of the story.
Requiem, Opera House Budapest, 2 November
- 2 Nov 2025 7:00 PM
- classical
Staged oratorio in Latin, with Hungarian, English, and Latin subtitles
In recent years, even decades, it has become a common practice to completely or partially stage certain oratorical works. After Messiah and Matthäus-Passion, nothing could be more suitable to continue the practice than Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem, which is claimed by many, half-seriously, but certainly aptly, to be their ...
Mozart: Don Giovanni, National Concert Hall Budapest, 9 September
- 9 Sep 2025 7:00 PM
- classical
“You’ll never truly know me,” says the world-famous seducer, and indeed: Don Giovanni’s character has remained unfathomable and endlessly captivating for centuries. Should we sympathise with him? Or condemn him?
Perhaps both? He is a complex and fascinating figure, who, with Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto and Mozart’s music, presents an eternal and rewarding challenge for directors. This is not ...
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, National Concert Hall Budapest, 30 August
- 30 Aug 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
One of the founders of bebop, Dizzy Gillespie was a fantastic musician with a wonderful personality. It is by keeping these values front and centre that the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band continues the tradition started by the legendary trumpet-playing songwriter and band leader.
Artistic integrity and high-quality performance are guaranteed by Gillespie’s former musical collaborator and the ...
Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, Opera House Budapest, 13 August
- 13 Aug 2025 7:00 PM
- classical
The subject of this work sparked Verdi's fiercest battle with the censor of Naples and, later on, of Rome. The original libretto treated an actual historical event: the 1792 regicide of a Swedish king.
However, this proved too delicate a matter given the political situation of the day, and so in order to curry favour with the censor, the king was converted into an earl and the plot ...
Recirquel Budapest: Solus Amor, Festival Theatre Budapest, 4 July
- 4 Jul 2025 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Love is all there is: The latest production by Recirquel, Hungary's leading contemporary circus company, brings forth the only primeval energy that spans space and time to connect us all.
Directed by artistic director Bence Vági, Solus Amor employs "cirque danse”, a genre created with and by the company over the course of several years, in a monumental production drawing its power from our ...