35 result(s) for purcell
'Early Music Festival’, Palace of Arts Budapest, Until 22 March
- 22 Feb 2022 12:27 PM
- community & culture
The month of March means it's time for the Early Music Festival In 2022, Müpa will be welcoming lovers of Renaissance, Baroque and Viennese Classical music with a selection of special treats for the seventh time.
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 ...
'La Lumière Comique', Palace Of Arts, 29 April
- 29 Apr 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
It has been said many times that great music does not necessarily require the highest quality text, and some go so far as to say that some music can even be hindered from developing fully when the melody is paired with words that claim a position of equal rank.
Of course, it is still pleasing to find the notes of the greatest composers coupled with literary source material of exceptional ...
‘Les Talens Lyriques’, Palace Of Arts, 8 March
- 8 Mar 2021 7:30 PM
- contemporary
If you asked what Les Talens Lyriques is, plenty of music lovers would be able to tell you that it is the name of a famous French early music ensemble.
You could also answer, however, that it is a famous piece of French early music that lent its name to the ensemble.
Thanks to the Hungarian premiere of this work, we can now discover the nature of Hebe's feasts and find out all about the ...
Online: Purcell Choir's 30th Birthday Concert - Haydn: The Creation
- 9 Feb 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
From Mupa: The Purcell Choir is now 30 years old - and what way could be better to celebrate this than with Haydn's grand oratorio The Creation? As the performance scheduled for May 2020 had to be cancelled, the choir is now ready to warmly welcome everyone for this shared celebration now!
György Vashegyi founded the Purcell Choir in 1990 for a concert-version performance of Dido and Aeneas, ...
'The Fairy Queen' Opera Online Streaming In Budapest, 9 January
- 4 Jan 2021 10:49 AM
- entertainment
Purcell's The Fairy Queen was originally a “semi-opera”, that is, a series of musical passages created for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream which did not relate an independent story, but only took on true meaning in conjunction with the prose work.
Updated: 7+1 Free-Time Ideas For November
- 23 Nov 2020 1:39 PM
- entertainment
You'll be glad to know that despite the Covid restrictions there are a great range of online happenings this month to brighten up your free time in Hungary.
Online Concert In Budapest: Purcell Choir & Orfeo Orchestra, 24 November
- 16 Nov 2020 10:47 AM
- community & culture
The grand motet involving orchestra, choir and soloists is an emblematic genre of the French Baroque.
Friday Organ Concerts
- 27 Dec 2019 8:00 PM
- classical
2 organs & 2 organists, voice and trumpet
Performers: organists of St. Stephen's Basilica, opera singers and trumpetist
The concerts present the most popular works of the most well-known artists of the musical literature: Charpentier, Albinoni, Caccini, Bach, Purcell, Händel, Gounod, C. Franck, Ferenc Liszt and Ch. M. Widor at the main Altar of the Basilica, and from the gallery on the world ...
'Early Music Festival’, Palace of Arts Budapest, Until 22 March
- 22 Feb 2022 12:27 PM
- community & culture
The month of March means it's time for the Early Music Festival In 2022, Müpa will be welcoming lovers of Renaissance, Baroque and Viennese Classical music with a selection of special treats for the seventh time.
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 ...
'La Lumière Comique', Palace Of Arts, 29 April
- 29 Apr 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
It has been said many times that great music does not necessarily require the highest quality text, and some go so far as to say that some music can even be hindered from developing fully when the melody is paired with words that claim a position of equal rank.
Of course, it is still pleasing to find the notes of the greatest composers coupled with literary source material of exceptional ...
‘Les Talens Lyriques’, Palace Of Arts, 8 March
- 8 Mar 2021 7:30 PM
- contemporary
If you asked what Les Talens Lyriques is, plenty of music lovers would be able to tell you that it is the name of a famous French early music ensemble.
You could also answer, however, that it is a famous piece of French early music that lent its name to the ensemble.
Thanks to the Hungarian premiere of this work, we can now discover the nature of Hebe's feasts and find out all about the ...
Online: Purcell Choir's 30th Birthday Concert - Haydn: The Creation
- 9 Feb 2021 7:30 PM
- classical
From Mupa: The Purcell Choir is now 30 years old - and what way could be better to celebrate this than with Haydn's grand oratorio The Creation? As the performance scheduled for May 2020 had to be cancelled, the choir is now ready to warmly welcome everyone for this shared celebration now!
György Vashegyi founded the Purcell Choir in 1990 for a concert-version performance of Dido and Aeneas, ...
'The Fairy Queen' Opera Online Streaming In Budapest, 9 January
- 4 Jan 2021 10:49 AM
- entertainment
Purcell's The Fairy Queen was originally a “semi-opera”, that is, a series of musical passages created for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream which did not relate an independent story, but only took on true meaning in conjunction with the prose work.
Updated: 7+1 Free-Time Ideas For November
- 23 Nov 2020 1:39 PM
- entertainment
You'll be glad to know that despite the Covid restrictions there are a great range of online happenings this month to brighten up your free time in Hungary.
Online Concert In Budapest: Purcell Choir & Orfeo Orchestra, 24 November
- 16 Nov 2020 10:47 AM
- community & culture
The grand motet involving orchestra, choir and soloists is an emblematic genre of the French Baroque.
Friday Organ Concerts
- 27 Dec 2019 8:00 PM
- classical
2 organs & 2 organists, voice and trumpet
Performers: organists of St. Stephen's Basilica, opera singers and trumpetist
The concerts present the most popular works of the most well-known artists of the musical literature: Charpentier, Albinoni, Caccini, Bach, Purcell, Händel, Gounod, C. Franck, Ferenc Liszt and Ch. M. Widor at the main Altar of the Basilica, and from the gallery on the world ...