293 result(s) for the festival orchestra
Shakespeare400+ Festival, 17 May - 2 June
- 18 May 2016 8:35 AM
- community & culture
To mark the start of the Shakespeare season, the Hungarian State Opera will host Shakespeare400+ festival in honour the esteemed playwright. This year, 17 adaptations will be presented in four different venues (the Opera House, Erkel Theatre, Music Academy and Müpa), including popular plays like Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Budapest Festival Orchestra Stages Musical Demonstration In Downtown Budapest
- 9 May 2016 9:01 AM
- community & culture
The internationally celebrated Budapest Festival Orchestra staged a musical demonstration in downtown Budapest on Saturday to protest against the Municipal Assembly’s decision to reduce funding for the ensemble. “First and foremost, we are here to demonstrate that we really love Budapest and we know that Budapest, too, really loves the Budapest Festival Orchestra,” Iván Fischer, the director, ...
Sziget Festival Prepares For Record Turnout And More
- 20 Apr 2016 9:02 AM
- entertainment
Sziget is the Island of Freedom and also the winner of the ‘Best European Festival Line-up Award’ in 2015. To live up to its traditions, the festival continues to build its identity upon a very diverse and open-minded program structure, making sure that it is much more than ‘just’ a music festival.
Celebrating Tolerance With The Festival Orchestra At Heroes’ Square, 3 June
- 13 Apr 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
This year, 500 disadvantaged children are taking part in the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Dancing on the Square project. In far-flung Hungarian towns, 500 underprivileged children have been preparing since January to show the world what they have learned from each other. It all culminates on 3 June with a grand open-air event, the Dancing on the Square project, alongside the musicians of the ...
'Get Closer' Budapest Jazz Fest, MoMKult, 22 - 24 April 2016
- 11 Apr 2016 9:04 AM
- entertainment
In the recent decades, Budapest has become an important point on the music map of Europe. There are numerous festivals and concert series which run every year in the capital, giving high-quality cultural experiences for Hungarians and foreign visitors too.
Budapest Spring Festival Starts Soon
- 7 Apr 2016 3:00 AM
- community & culture
This special festival, held in 2016 between April 8 and 24, offers expats many cultural programmes in a variety of categories, ranging from orchestral concerts through to opera and dance performances, and contemporary crossover productions.
Budapest Festival Orchestra: 2017 Season Overview
- 28 Mar 2016 5:00 AM
- community & culture
The programme Iván Fischer has compiled will guide audiences through the bohemian world of the artists of Montmartre: audiences will encounter the impressionists Debussy and Ravel alongside the emotional and endearing eccentric Erik Satie; a journey to the second half of the twentieth century will lead to Henri Dutilleux, whose centenary was celebrated by the musical world in January 2016.
First Winter Beer Festival In Budapest, 19 - 21 February
- 19 Feb 2016 2:55 AM
- food & drink
The time has come for local beer lovers not to make a pilgrimage to 'Czechia' for a good beer festival at this time of year: now in 2016 for the first time beer fans can indulge themselves in a cavalcade of beers in Hungary at the Serfőző Indoor Beer Festival, held between February 19 - 21 in all the halls of Hotel Gellért.
Week-Long Kurtág 90 Festival Starts Sunday
- 13 Feb 2016 7:04 AM
- community & culture
Hungarian and international musicians will pay their respects to composer and pianist György Kurtág to celebrate his 90th birthday at a week-long festival starting on Sunday. The Kurtág 90 festival organised by the Budapest Music Center (BMC) will be held between February 14 and 21.
Shakespeare400+ Festival, 17 May - 2 June
- 18 May 2016 8:35 AM
- community & culture
To mark the start of the Shakespeare season, the Hungarian State Opera will host Shakespeare400+ festival in honour the esteemed playwright. This year, 17 adaptations will be presented in four different venues (the Opera House, Erkel Theatre, Music Academy and Müpa), including popular plays like Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Budapest Festival Orchestra Stages Musical Demonstration In Downtown Budapest
- 9 May 2016 9:01 AM
- community & culture
The internationally celebrated Budapest Festival Orchestra staged a musical demonstration in downtown Budapest on Saturday to protest against the Municipal Assembly’s decision to reduce funding for the ensemble. “First and foremost, we are here to demonstrate that we really love Budapest and we know that Budapest, too, really loves the Budapest Festival Orchestra,” Iván Fischer, the director, ...
Sziget Festival Prepares For Record Turnout And More
- 20 Apr 2016 9:02 AM
- entertainment
Sziget is the Island of Freedom and also the winner of the ‘Best European Festival Line-up Award’ in 2015. To live up to its traditions, the festival continues to build its identity upon a very diverse and open-minded program structure, making sure that it is much more than ‘just’ a music festival.
Celebrating Tolerance With The Festival Orchestra At Heroes’ Square, 3 June
- 13 Apr 2016 9:04 AM
- community & culture
This year, 500 disadvantaged children are taking part in the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s Dancing on the Square project. In far-flung Hungarian towns, 500 underprivileged children have been preparing since January to show the world what they have learned from each other. It all culminates on 3 June with a grand open-air event, the Dancing on the Square project, alongside the musicians of the ...
'Get Closer' Budapest Jazz Fest, MoMKult, 22 - 24 April 2016
- 11 Apr 2016 9:04 AM
- entertainment
In the recent decades, Budapest has become an important point on the music map of Europe. There are numerous festivals and concert series which run every year in the capital, giving high-quality cultural experiences for Hungarians and foreign visitors too.
Budapest Spring Festival Starts Soon
- 7 Apr 2016 3:00 AM
- community & culture
This special festival, held in 2016 between April 8 and 24, offers expats many cultural programmes in a variety of categories, ranging from orchestral concerts through to opera and dance performances, and contemporary crossover productions.
Budapest Festival Orchestra: 2017 Season Overview
- 28 Mar 2016 5:00 AM
- community & culture
The programme Iván Fischer has compiled will guide audiences through the bohemian world of the artists of Montmartre: audiences will encounter the impressionists Debussy and Ravel alongside the emotional and endearing eccentric Erik Satie; a journey to the second half of the twentieth century will lead to Henri Dutilleux, whose centenary was celebrated by the musical world in January 2016.
First Winter Beer Festival In Budapest, 19 - 21 February
- 19 Feb 2016 2:55 AM
- food & drink
The time has come for local beer lovers not to make a pilgrimage to 'Czechia' for a good beer festival at this time of year: now in 2016 for the first time beer fans can indulge themselves in a cavalcade of beers in Hungary at the Serfőző Indoor Beer Festival, held between February 19 - 21 in all the halls of Hotel Gellért.
Week-Long Kurtág 90 Festival Starts Sunday
- 13 Feb 2016 7:04 AM
- community & culture
Hungarian and international musicians will pay their respects to composer and pianist György Kurtág to celebrate his 90th birthday at a week-long festival starting on Sunday. The Kurtág 90 festival organised by the Budapest Music Center (BMC) will be held between February 14 and 21.