Visitors to the Budapest Spring Festival will have the chance to indulge in a world premiere: the Concerto Budapest will play Leoncavallo’s Requiem, never before performed with a symphony orchestra, at the Budapest Vigadó. The reconstruction of the work spanned ten years, and was carried out by József Ács, the...
Positive Energy by Susan Anwin She dreamed about Fox again. He didn’t seem entirely human with his long, slender limbs, narrow hips, and with a bit of imagination, she could almost see pointy ears under that shock of red hair. "One day you’ll return to the hidden world and leave...
The Jabot Festival, the Budapest Spring Festival’s invitation to indulge in musical time travel, will once more be held in splendid concert venues in Budapest’s Palace District. This time, the focus is on musicians far removed from their tsarist and imperial homelands, in a series of concerts of early music,...
“He gets bored when things are too well planned,” said stage designer George Tsypin of his close colleague Valery Gergiev. This phrase is a telling thumbnail sketch of the essence of the Russian conductor, whose calendar has room for two hundred concerts annually, press conferences, and even political events, but...
BSF 2019 – #THISISMYPLACE This year again, 39-year-old Budapest Spring Festival offers its usual huge amount and diversity of programmes and venues, from 5 to 22 April. The main topics are Liszt, Russian culture and the 100-year-old Bauhaus. After we attended the press conference in the new main hall of...
Classical Chill Out, Kodály Centre, 13 March 2019, 9 pm Attila Szabó is in a perfect position to raise young people’s interest in and fondness for classical music in Pécs. After seven years with the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra where he worked as chief ticket agent, now he’s at the Centre...
Péter Dobszay and the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, Müpa, 24 February 2019, 7:30 pm Thinking about he is only 26 and how much he is praised already by masters like Michel Béroff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Vásáry Tamás, Ivan Moravec or Leslie Howard, he still seems to be a quite humble man. Instead...
She answers the phone and I’m astonished how beautiful her voice is. I can imagine her leading a meditation group or helping a cranky kid to fell asleep. Sometimes she tells me to stop her if she talks too much, but it’s simply not much at all: I simply love...
The Land of Smiles, Müpa, 1 February 2019, 7 pm We caught the incredibly nice opera singer, Karine Babajanyan, for an interview about Ferenc Lehár’s operetta The Land of Smiles, where she sings Lisa’s role. The piece had its premiere in Shanghai at fall 2018. This monumental coproduction of Müpa...
Christmas Organ Concert: Monika Melcová and the choirs of the Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choral School, Müpa, 12.12.2018, 7:30 pm Less than three days, less than seventy-two hours of miracle, it’s just started but already over again. Although we wait for this all day long. Could it be that not Christmas...
There is a book in the Harry Potter series in which British wizards host foreign guests to organize a championship between the most talented students of three schools – and three countries, regions, cultures. These young people are chosen by a magical object, the Goblet of Fire, which is also...
THE LIMITS OF WORKLabour: Our Life In 2017, more than 20% of people worked in the Czech Republic for less than 83 CZK (3,2 EUR) per hour. Minimum wage was the fifth lowest in the EU – 11.000 CZK (425 EUR). Journalist Saša Uhlová has decided to go after those...
Grandiose Baltic melodies It’s a rare occasion for the audience of Müpa to listen to Baltic music. This year, the CAFe Budapest Contemporary Art Festival starts with the concert of Sinfonietta Riga on the 5th of October, featuring an Estonian conductor. They play four pieces by four different composers who...
Ever since Dean Brown completed his studies at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, he has always been the first name to call if a supergroup finds itself needing a jazz-rock guitarist. For this occasion Brown will arrive to CAFe Budapest fronting his own international band. Brown’s father...
I love theatre, that has always been so. For some reason, though, I have become a bit more estranged from classical staging lately. I am rather interested in interactive, transformative forms that involve audience as participants or even contributors. I came across a lot of intriguing ideas throughout the years,...
The dance project is called Shapers, although its initiators are French and the dancers are from different Mediterranean countries. A bit bashful, I was waiting on the England side of the telephone line for Anne Le Batard, artistic director of Shapers and member of Ex Nihilo, to pick up in...
Can someone be a classical composer if he plays in a hardcore band that has “shit” in its name? Or who invents a new instrument with robots playing on it? And who writes soundtrack for Hunger Games? And what about a man who dislikes being called “classical”, but everything listed...
The way The Magic Flute unfolds before us is twofold: at first, a fairytale which takes us into the pure poetry of childhood or genius; then - and most of all - a precise, rigorous, and inspired ritual. This combination may seem strange. Let us first observe that it functions...
The 18th international literature festival berlin The 18th international literature festival berlin (ilb) will take place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele from September 5 – 15, 2018. In addition, you can attend several ilb events at cultural spots around the city – for example at the Museum für Naturkunde...
Due to the large number of visitors, the exhibition Marina Abramović Two Hearts at Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna will be prolonged until Friday, June 22, 2018. To this day, around 2,000 art lovers have visited the exhibition of the most important performance artist of the present day. "We can have so many...
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