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Sziget Festival Back in Hungarian Hands – 2026 Dates Announced
- 4 Nov 2025 12:44 PM
- entertainment
Sziget, one of Europe’s largest and best-known music festivals, is once again under Hungarian ownership. The festival will continue with its current management and organising team, now joined by founder Károly Gerendai, who returns as strategic director to help shape the event’s next chapter.
Sziget Festival's Future Seems Secure: Now Just a Legal Formality, Says Budapest Mayor
- 31 Oct 2025 5:46 AM
- entertainment
Securing the future of the Sziget Festival is now just a legal formality, with a clear majority supporting the new authority agreement, Gergely Karácsony, Budapest's mayor, said on Thursday.
"So, There Will Be No Sziget" – Says Budapest Mayor
- 30 Oct 2025 5:36 AM
- entertainment
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony wrote in a Facebook post this week that Sziget Festival will not take place next year.
Updated: Budapest's Sziget Festival in Serious Trouble
- 22 Oct 2025 4:31 PM
- entertainment
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony wrote in a Facebook post this week that the future of Sziget has become uncertain, as the festival's CEO informed him that he was forced to initiate the termination of the agreement between the capital and the long running 'Island of Freedom' festival.
Grammy Award-Winning Pitbull Concert in Budapest Confirmed – His First Ever Show in Hungary
- 22 Oct 2025 12:33 PM
- entertainment
Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American rapper Pitbull will perform in Hungary for the first time next summer. The global superstar, also known as Mr Worldwide, is scheduled to take the stage at Budapest’s Puskás Aréna on 21 July 2026 as part of his I’m Back! European tour.
Roxette, Budapest Aréna, 4 November
- 22 Oct 2025 7:51 AM
- entertainment
Although we thought in 2016 that we could say goodbye to Roxette and the chance to hear their evergreen hits live, Per Gessle, the band's founder, has now picked up the torch and will return to the stage in 2025 with Swedish superstar Lena Philipsson on a tour called Roxette In Concert. The first stop on the European tour will be Budapest, on 4 November at the Budapest Arena.
A Unique Musical Encounter at the Grand Finale of the 10th Cziffra Festival
- 13 Oct 2025 5:38 PM
- specials
On Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 7:30pm, Müpa’s Bartók Béla National Concert Hall in Budapest will host a once-in-a-lifetime musical event to close the 10th Cziffra Festival. To mark György Cziffra’s 104th birthday, the venue will be graced by three exceptional artists: tenor José Cura, coloratura soprano Erika Miklósa, and Kossuth Prize-winning pianist János Balázs, founder of the festival.
Hungarian Writer Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
- 10 Oct 2025 7:08 AM
- http://www.hatc.hu
- community & culture
Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai was named on Thursday the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 23 years after the honour was bestowed on another Hungarian writer, Imre Kertész.
Party Venue Budapest Park to Transform Into Ice Rink
- 7 Oct 2025 1:49 PM
- entertainment
Budapest Park recently closed a successful 2025 party period, and will reopen as an ice rink soon. The fourteenth season's visitor numbers reached almost 670,000, which is 7 percent more than last year.
Sziget Festival Back in Hungarian Hands – 2026 Dates Announced
- 4 Nov 2025 12:44 PM
- entertainment
Sziget, one of Europe’s largest and best-known music festivals, is once again under Hungarian ownership. The festival will continue with its current management and organising team, now joined by founder Károly Gerendai, who returns as strategic director to help shape the event’s next chapter.
Sziget Festival's Future Seems Secure: Now Just a Legal Formality, Says Budapest Mayor
- 31 Oct 2025 5:46 AM
- entertainment
Securing the future of the Sziget Festival is now just a legal formality, with a clear majority supporting the new authority agreement, Gergely Karácsony, Budapest's mayor, said on Thursday.
"So, There Will Be No Sziget" – Says Budapest Mayor
- 30 Oct 2025 5:36 AM
- entertainment
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony wrote in a Facebook post this week that Sziget Festival will not take place next year.
Updated: Budapest's Sziget Festival in Serious Trouble
- 22 Oct 2025 4:31 PM
- entertainment
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony wrote in a Facebook post this week that the future of Sziget has become uncertain, as the festival's CEO informed him that he was forced to initiate the termination of the agreement between the capital and the long running 'Island of Freedom' festival.
Grammy Award-Winning Pitbull Concert in Budapest Confirmed – His First Ever Show in Hungary
- 22 Oct 2025 12:33 PM
- entertainment
Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American rapper Pitbull will perform in Hungary for the first time next summer. The global superstar, also known as Mr Worldwide, is scheduled to take the stage at Budapest’s Puskás Aréna on 21 July 2026 as part of his I’m Back! European tour.
Roxette, Budapest Aréna, 4 November
- 22 Oct 2025 7:51 AM
- entertainment
Although we thought in 2016 that we could say goodbye to Roxette and the chance to hear their evergreen hits live, Per Gessle, the band's founder, has now picked up the torch and will return to the stage in 2025 with Swedish superstar Lena Philipsson on a tour called Roxette In Concert. The first stop on the European tour will be Budapest, on 4 November at the Budapest Arena.
A Unique Musical Encounter at the Grand Finale of the 10th Cziffra Festival
- 13 Oct 2025 5:38 PM
- specials
On Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 7:30pm, Müpa’s Bartók Béla National Concert Hall in Budapest will host a once-in-a-lifetime musical event to close the 10th Cziffra Festival. To mark György Cziffra’s 104th birthday, the venue will be graced by three exceptional artists: tenor José Cura, coloratura soprano Erika Miklósa, and Kossuth Prize-winning pianist János Balázs, founder of the festival.
Hungarian Writer Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
- 10 Oct 2025 7:08 AM
- http://www.hatc.hu
- community & culture
Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai was named on Thursday the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 23 years after the honour was bestowed on another Hungarian writer, Imre Kertész.
Party Venue Budapest Park to Transform Into Ice Rink
- 7 Oct 2025 1:49 PM
- entertainment
Budapest Park recently closed a successful 2025 party period, and will reopen as an ice rink soon. The fourteenth season's visitor numbers reached almost 670,000, which is 7 percent more than last year.