293 result(s) for the festival orchestra
Winners Of 10th Armel Opera Festival Announced
- 5 Jul 2017 2:10 AM
- community & culture
Udo Zimmerman’s opera Weisse Rose (White Rose), performed by Swiss theatre company Biel Solothurn Theatre Orchestra, won the prize for best performance at the 10th Armel Opera Festival in Budapest on Tuesday, and French soprano Morgane Heyse won best singer. Armel Festival combines a talent programme for opera singers and a music festival, staging five contemporary operas every year, organisers ...
'The Gershwins’, Porgy & Bess, Margaret Island Open-Air Stage, 23 & 25 June
- 14 Jun 2017 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"Summertime", "I Wants to Stay Here", "A Woman is a Sometime Thing" - well-known themes and evergreens by outstanding artists such as Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong are what this spectacular production is all about. The performance organised by the Budapest Summer Festival will be starring American star singers accompanied by a Symphony Orchestra, while a series of magnificent images will ...
Budapest Summer Festival - Season Opening Concert, 9 June
- 8 Jun 2017 8:18 AM
- community & culture
The Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra starring: Hilary Hahn violin virtuosa - a Jubilee Evening of Mendelssohn on Friday 9 June at 8 pm on Margaret Island, at the Open-Air Stage.
Budapest Summer Festival, Now On Until 31 August
- 7 Jun 2017 9:02 AM
- community & culture
Organisers: The 2017 Budapest Summer Festival running under the slogan “Festival of Cultures and Continents” aims at turning the spotlight on the special role of our planet and art when it comes to bringing nations together: Theatre is the common ground that unites us, as we get to share some enriching moments together.
Budapest Festival Orchestra To Play Heroes’ Square Again On 10 June
- 28 Apr 2017 7:32 AM
- community & culture
With over a thousand dancing feet, nearly a hundred musicians and one conductor, the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) will once again be giving a free concert on Heroes’ Square on 10 June. The heroes of the event will be the young people, Roma and non-Roma from privileged and less-privileged backgrounds, for whom the preparations have just started all over the country.
Video: Budapest Spring Festival Starts Today
- 30 Mar 2017 2:04 AM
- community & culture
The 37th Budapest Spring Festival, held this year between 31 March – 23 April, will host a huge programme of events covering all the main arts: classical music, opera, jazz, world music, dance, contemporary circus, theatre and visual arts. The best Hungarian performers and world famous stars are all set to perform, and if you haven't already booked tickets you better act soon as they're selling ...
Pumeza Matshikiza's Debut In The Budapest Spring Festival, 1 April
- 29 Mar 2017 9:30 AM
- community & culture
“She is one of the most exciting opera singers of our era,” and “With her sensitive, lyric voice, magical stage presence and playfulness, she will soon be a bona fide international star!”
Kézdy Luca: Deep Diving, Mupa, 29 March
- 28 Mar 2017 7:40 AM
- community & culture
There is a canard that the violin is not a true jazz instrument, that it is much better suited to folk music or the classical repertoire. This mistaken belief, however, would be vigorously disputed by anyone who has heard the playing of Luca Kézdy, the leading violinist of the generation of Hungarian jazz musicians currently in their prime. This is because she knows precisely how brilliantly her ...
2017/18 Season Of Hungarian State Opera: "Around The Ring"
- 7 Mar 2017 6:10 AM
- community & culture
The Hungarian State Opera’s 2017/18 season will get off to an unusual start, since the Opera House will not be opening its doors in September. The modernisation means that the season will start at the Erkel Theatre, and while there will be fewer programmes than usual, their diversity will match that of previous years: In this season inspired by Wagner’s Ring cycle, there will be 28 opera and ...
Winners Of 10th Armel Opera Festival Announced
- 5 Jul 2017 2:10 AM
- community & culture
Udo Zimmerman’s opera Weisse Rose (White Rose), performed by Swiss theatre company Biel Solothurn Theatre Orchestra, won the prize for best performance at the 10th Armel Opera Festival in Budapest on Tuesday, and French soprano Morgane Heyse won best singer. Armel Festival combines a talent programme for opera singers and a music festival, staging five contemporary operas every year, organisers ...
'The Gershwins’, Porgy & Bess, Margaret Island Open-Air Stage, 23 & 25 June
- 14 Jun 2017 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"Summertime", "I Wants to Stay Here", "A Woman is a Sometime Thing" - well-known themes and evergreens by outstanding artists such as Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong are what this spectacular production is all about. The performance organised by the Budapest Summer Festival will be starring American star singers accompanied by a Symphony Orchestra, while a series of magnificent images will ...
Budapest Summer Festival - Season Opening Concert, 9 June
- 8 Jun 2017 8:18 AM
- community & culture
The Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra starring: Hilary Hahn violin virtuosa - a Jubilee Evening of Mendelssohn on Friday 9 June at 8 pm on Margaret Island, at the Open-Air Stage.
Budapest Summer Festival, Now On Until 31 August
- 7 Jun 2017 9:02 AM
- community & culture
Organisers: The 2017 Budapest Summer Festival running under the slogan “Festival of Cultures and Continents” aims at turning the spotlight on the special role of our planet and art when it comes to bringing nations together: Theatre is the common ground that unites us, as we get to share some enriching moments together.
Budapest Festival Orchestra To Play Heroes’ Square Again On 10 June
- 28 Apr 2017 7:32 AM
- community & culture
With over a thousand dancing feet, nearly a hundred musicians and one conductor, the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) will once again be giving a free concert on Heroes’ Square on 10 June. The heroes of the event will be the young people, Roma and non-Roma from privileged and less-privileged backgrounds, for whom the preparations have just started all over the country.
Video: Budapest Spring Festival Starts Today
- 30 Mar 2017 2:04 AM
- community & culture
The 37th Budapest Spring Festival, held this year between 31 March – 23 April, will host a huge programme of events covering all the main arts: classical music, opera, jazz, world music, dance, contemporary circus, theatre and visual arts. The best Hungarian performers and world famous stars are all set to perform, and if you haven't already booked tickets you better act soon as they're selling ...
Pumeza Matshikiza's Debut In The Budapest Spring Festival, 1 April
- 29 Mar 2017 9:30 AM
- community & culture
“She is one of the most exciting opera singers of our era,” and “With her sensitive, lyric voice, magical stage presence and playfulness, she will soon be a bona fide international star!”
Kézdy Luca: Deep Diving, Mupa, 29 March
- 28 Mar 2017 7:40 AM
- community & culture
There is a canard that the violin is not a true jazz instrument, that it is much better suited to folk music or the classical repertoire. This mistaken belief, however, would be vigorously disputed by anyone who has heard the playing of Luca Kézdy, the leading violinist of the generation of Hungarian jazz musicians currently in their prime. This is because she knows precisely how brilliantly her ...
2017/18 Season Of Hungarian State Opera: "Around The Ring"
- 7 Mar 2017 6:10 AM
- community & culture
The Hungarian State Opera’s 2017/18 season will get off to an unusual start, since the Opera House will not be opening its doors in September. The modernisation means that the season will start at the Erkel Theatre, and while there will be fewer programmes than usual, their diversity will match that of previous years: In this season inspired by Wagner’s Ring cycle, there will be 28 opera and ...