11 result(s) for fig festival in Events
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 ...
Boggie & Petruska, Festival Theatre Budapest, 11 June
- 11 Jun 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The popular songwriter and performer Boggie, who is a key figure on the Hungarian artpop scene and sings in three languages, first performed with the virtuoso guitar-playing talent Petruska in 2023, when they represented Hungary at a festival in South Korea.
This marked the beginning of their joint production. The show’s organising force comes from the performers’ love of Hungarian folk music ...
For Kids: Carnival Merry-Making – with Dance and Music, Festival Theatre Budapest, 27 January
- 27 Jan 2025 1:00 PM
- contemporary
The aim of Carnival Merry-making is to provide entertaining background for children on the history, habits and significance in folk culture of carnival season in Hungary.
It's better to learn from the best: the program director and host is Zoltán 'Batyu' Farkas, a legendary figure of the Hungarian folk dance scene, whose thoughts on this occasion will be expressed by singers, storytellers and ...
Klára Hajdu Quartet, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 21 June
- 21 Jun 2024 10:15 AM
- contemporary
Klára Hajdu is an outstanding singer-songwriter and teacher of the Hungarian jazz scene.
She has performed in clubs and festivals in many cities in Europe and the USA. Her own quartet has been a renowned jazz ensemble for more than a decade and a half, and its members are all leading figures on the Hungarian scene.
Their four albums to date are played on radio stations from Europe to ...
György Orbán & His Students, Festival Theatre Budapest, 4 June
- 4 Jun 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
György Orbán taught composition and music theory at Budapest's Liszt Academy between 1982 and 2009.
The three composers whose works we will hear alongside those of their teacher are not only linked to Orbán as students, but also continuously exploit the intellectual capital they received from him. To open the concert, Levente Gyöngyösi will conduct his ensemble Seventeen
Singers in choral ...
Percussion Klezmer Duo, Rumbach Street Synagogue, 11 September
- 11 Sep 2023 7:00 PM
- contemporary
After many years, organisers welcome back to Budapest marimba and xylophone artist Alex Jacobowitz, an exceptional figure in the klezmer and Jewish musical tradition, who has toured the world with his unique instruments.
His main goal is to bring people, cultures and religions closer together through his music.
This evening Alex Jacobowitz will perform with Márton Szives, Pro Arte gold ...
Romanian Jazz Days, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 27 October
- 27 Oct 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The formation borrowed its name from the Greek language, where Ξενοι or Xenoi means ‘outsiders, strangers’. The word refers to individuals who have not integrated into a particular community, only enjoyed its hospitality for an extended period of time.
At the same time, foreigners who had lost their freedom (slaves, prisoners of war) could not be members of the xenoi group, so freedom is the ...
Umze Ensemble: Pantomime, Music, Dance, Budapest Music Club, 16 September
- 16 Sep 2021 7:28 PM
- contemporary
Circus and dance, this is the theme of a concert composed of works by composers in their late twenties and early thirties gathered around the UMZE ensemble.
The program, which includes three premieres (Máté Balogh, Márton Szőcs and Péter Tornyai), presents two Italian composers in a series of pieces surrounding the relationship between contemporary concert music and stage, whose works served ...
Budapest Bar Concert, Budapest Park, 1 July
- 1 Jul 2021 7:22 PM
- contemporary
The Budapest Bar caught up with one of the most original and interesting music companies of recent years, when in 2007 he collected the cult figures of Hungarian rock music around the band of Róbert Farkas.
Originally they got together for a single record, the casual band has since performed successfully in theatres, festivals and events.
They hit movie hits, couplets, dance songs and ...
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 ...
Boggie & Petruska, Festival Theatre Budapest, 11 June
- 11 Jun 2025 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The popular songwriter and performer Boggie, who is a key figure on the Hungarian artpop scene and sings in three languages, first performed with the virtuoso guitar-playing talent Petruska in 2023, when they represented Hungary at a festival in South Korea.
This marked the beginning of their joint production. The show’s organising force comes from the performers’ love of Hungarian folk music ...
For Kids: Carnival Merry-Making – with Dance and Music, Festival Theatre Budapest, 27 January
- 27 Jan 2025 1:00 PM
- contemporary
The aim of Carnival Merry-making is to provide entertaining background for children on the history, habits and significance in folk culture of carnival season in Hungary.
It's better to learn from the best: the program director and host is Zoltán 'Batyu' Farkas, a legendary figure of the Hungarian folk dance scene, whose thoughts on this occasion will be expressed by singers, storytellers and ...
Klára Hajdu Quartet, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 21 June
- 21 Jun 2024 10:15 AM
- contemporary
Klára Hajdu is an outstanding singer-songwriter and teacher of the Hungarian jazz scene.
She has performed in clubs and festivals in many cities in Europe and the USA. Her own quartet has been a renowned jazz ensemble for more than a decade and a half, and its members are all leading figures on the Hungarian scene.
Their four albums to date are played on radio stations from Europe to ...
György Orbán & His Students, Festival Theatre Budapest, 4 June
- 4 Jun 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
György Orbán taught composition and music theory at Budapest's Liszt Academy between 1982 and 2009.
The three composers whose works we will hear alongside those of their teacher are not only linked to Orbán as students, but also continuously exploit the intellectual capital they received from him. To open the concert, Levente Gyöngyösi will conduct his ensemble Seventeen
Singers in choral ...
Percussion Klezmer Duo, Rumbach Street Synagogue, 11 September
- 11 Sep 2023 7:00 PM
- contemporary
After many years, organisers welcome back to Budapest marimba and xylophone artist Alex Jacobowitz, an exceptional figure in the klezmer and Jewish musical tradition, who has toured the world with his unique instruments.
His main goal is to bring people, cultures and religions closer together through his music.
This evening Alex Jacobowitz will perform with Márton Szives, Pro Arte gold ...
Romanian Jazz Days, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 27 October
- 27 Oct 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
The formation borrowed its name from the Greek language, where Ξενοι or Xenoi means ‘outsiders, strangers’. The word refers to individuals who have not integrated into a particular community, only enjoyed its hospitality for an extended period of time.
At the same time, foreigners who had lost their freedom (slaves, prisoners of war) could not be members of the xenoi group, so freedom is the ...
Umze Ensemble: Pantomime, Music, Dance, Budapest Music Club, 16 September
- 16 Sep 2021 7:28 PM
- contemporary
Circus and dance, this is the theme of a concert composed of works by composers in their late twenties and early thirties gathered around the UMZE ensemble.
The program, which includes three premieres (Máté Balogh, Márton Szőcs and Péter Tornyai), presents two Italian composers in a series of pieces surrounding the relationship between contemporary concert music and stage, whose works served ...
Budapest Bar Concert, Budapest Park, 1 July
- 1 Jul 2021 7:22 PM
- contemporary
The Budapest Bar caught up with one of the most original and interesting music companies of recent years, when in 2007 he collected the cult figures of Hungarian rock music around the band of Róbert Farkas.
Originally they got together for a single record, the casual band has since performed successfully in theatres, festivals and events.
They hit movie hits, couplets, dance songs and ...