35 result(s) for purcell
Jubilee Weekend At Palace Of Arts In Budapest: Program Details
- 12 Mar 2015 12:50 AM
- community & culture
The Palace of Arts celebrates its 10th birthday with a particularly special series of events between 14-15 March. This spring weekend is the “crowning jewel” in Müpa’s jubilee season, where a cast of artists will take to the stage who have all provided outstanding concert entertainment over the past decade at the region’s leading institution of the performing arts.
Summer Selection From The Met New York @ Uránia Budapest, 16 July
- 10 Jul 2014 11:35 AM
- community & culture
A contemporary take on the 18th-century genre of the pastiche, this delightful Baroque fantasy brings together some of the greatest arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, Purcell, and other composers, with a new English libretto by Jeremy Sams, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The all-star cast is headed by David Daniels as Prospero, Joyce DiDonato as ...
New London Consort: Britain’s Golden Ages, Basilica Budapest, 25 June
- 2 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Philip Pickett’s versatile New London Consort is one of today’s leading early music ensembles, which draws from the uniquely wide and colourful range of Renaissance and Baroque music for its repertoire. New London Consort is the most well-known and renowned group of this genre today.
Invitation: Müpa Master Class, Festival Theatre Budapest, 3 January
- 2 Jan 2014 8:04 AM
- community & culture
After conducting Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons at the New Year’s Concert on 1 January, René Jacobs will work with the Purcell Choir for the following two days. This public workshop offers a unique glimpse into the working practices of one of the great early music exponents of our times, in which he will teach two of Johann Sebastian Bach’s brilliant motets to an ensemble of outstanding Hungarian ...
Invitation: Britten100, Opera House Budapest, 22 November
- 22 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- community & culture
On the birth anniversary of the British composer, Benjamin Britten the Hungarian State Opera welcomes the audience to a ’night of discovery’. The concert performance of The Rape of Lucretia will debut on 22 November with outstanding soloists, conducted by Máté Hámori.
Interested In Singing Sacred Music In Hungary?
- 16 Sep 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The Gabrieli Choir is the only choir in Hungary to specialize in the study and performance of Anglican cathedral music. This international group rehearses weekly (Sunday evenings, from 5 to 8 pm) in Budapest’s 5th district, and gives concerts in some of Budapest’s finest churches. The choir’s Musical Director is Richárd Sólyom
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 26 June
- 25 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Étienne Méhul (1763–1817), one of the most significant and influential opera composers during the French revolution and the politically turbulent decades thereafter, wrote some forty works for musical theatre. Enjoying the confidence of his friend and rival Luigi Cherubini, and even of Napoleon, Méhul expanded the range of themes adaptable to the opera genre, enriching its musical landscape.
Handel: Hercules, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 March
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Even by Handel’s standards for high-speed composition, Hercules was completed in record time. Taking the story of Sophocles’s Women of Trachis and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as his basis, the composer began writing the work on 19 July 1744 and finished on 21 August. In the meantime, he sent teasing letters to Charles Jennens, the librettist of the work (and of the oratorio Belshazzar), urging him to ...
Jubilee Weekend At Palace Of Arts In Budapest: Program Details
- 12 Mar 2015 12:50 AM
- community & culture
The Palace of Arts celebrates its 10th birthday with a particularly special series of events between 14-15 March. This spring weekend is the “crowning jewel” in Müpa’s jubilee season, where a cast of artists will take to the stage who have all provided outstanding concert entertainment over the past decade at the region’s leading institution of the performing arts.
Summer Selection From The Met New York @ Uránia Budapest, 16 July
- 10 Jul 2014 11:35 AM
- community & culture
A contemporary take on the 18th-century genre of the pastiche, this delightful Baroque fantasy brings together some of the greatest arias and ensembles by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, Purcell, and other composers, with a new English libretto by Jeremy Sams, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The all-star cast is headed by David Daniels as Prospero, Joyce DiDonato as ...
New London Consort: Britain’s Golden Ages, Basilica Budapest, 25 June
- 2 Jun 2014 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Philip Pickett’s versatile New London Consort is one of today’s leading early music ensembles, which draws from the uniquely wide and colourful range of Renaissance and Baroque music for its repertoire. New London Consort is the most well-known and renowned group of this genre today.
Invitation: Müpa Master Class, Festival Theatre Budapest, 3 January
- 2 Jan 2014 8:04 AM
- community & culture
After conducting Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons at the New Year’s Concert on 1 January, René Jacobs will work with the Purcell Choir for the following two days. This public workshop offers a unique glimpse into the working practices of one of the great early music exponents of our times, in which he will teach two of Johann Sebastian Bach’s brilliant motets to an ensemble of outstanding Hungarian ...
Invitation: Britten100, Opera House Budapest, 22 November
- 22 Nov 2013 8:00 AM
- community & culture
On the birth anniversary of the British composer, Benjamin Britten the Hungarian State Opera welcomes the audience to a ’night of discovery’. The concert performance of The Rape of Lucretia will debut on 22 November with outstanding soloists, conducted by Máté Hámori.
Interested In Singing Sacred Music In Hungary?
- 16 Sep 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The Gabrieli Choir is the only choir in Hungary to specialize in the study and performance of Anglican cathedral music. This international group rehearses weekly (Sunday evenings, from 5 to 8 pm) in Budapest’s 5th district, and gives concerts in some of Budapest’s finest churches. The choir’s Musical Director is Richárd Sólyom
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 26 June
- 25 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Étienne Méhul (1763–1817), one of the most significant and influential opera composers during the French revolution and the politically turbulent decades thereafter, wrote some forty works for musical theatre. Enjoying the confidence of his friend and rival Luigi Cherubini, and even of Napoleon, Méhul expanded the range of themes adaptable to the opera genre, enriching its musical landscape.
Handel: Hercules, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 March
- 20 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Even by Handel’s standards for high-speed composition, Hercules was completed in record time. Taking the story of Sophocles’s Women of Trachis and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as his basis, the composer began writing the work on 19 July 1744 and finished on 21 August. In the meantime, he sent teasing letters to Charles Jennens, the librettist of the work (and of the oratorio Belshazzar), urging him to ...