Barely seven years old, a little girl in a small church in Oradea, in the St. Catherine estate started her career: she was playing Mary in the nativity play. Thanks to her stamina she strode confidently up the imaginary rungs of the opera world, until in 2016 she reached the...
Though a few decades ago Herbert von Karajan, the conductor who long defined the profile of the Berlin Philharmonic, declared that women’s place was in the kitchen, not a symphony orchestra, there is no corner of classical music where they are not present. Nowadays more and more women are taking...
The general public regards the UNESCO world heritage convention as a kind of “Landscape, eras, museums” movement, but it’s not just romantic canyons and old monasteries that enjoy the protection of the programme. One of the organization’s less well known lists containing intellectual cultural heritage is a collection of humanity’s...
You don’t have too much luck if you search for informations on Dona Onete in English. Her website is only available in Portuguese, her biography is brief, and there is hardly anything else about her in the big music databases. She is so humble and hiding, as if she herself...
Nine years ago, Ivanka Mogilska, a young Bulgarian novelist came to the International Book Festival in Budapest. Back then, she just published her first novel, and nowadays her second novel, Sudden Streets, reached international leadership. For Hungarians, what makes it even more stunning is that Sudden Streets is partly located...
I read Susan Barker’s novel The Incarnations in early 2017. Even months later, I still reflected on the characters. I saw them roaming in smoggy Beijing and not seeing anything around them, I heard their tensioned dialogues and the unspoken truths behind them. Although even Hungarian readers liked the novel...
Burka, turban, tiara (a review of 'A God in Every Stone' by Kamila Shamsie) My first impression was to praise the publisher to get this novel translated into Hungarian. Even today, postcolonial literature is mostly unknown in Hungary. Like in the case of refugees, average Hungarians tend to say „it's...
The novel Neljäntienristeys tells the story about Finland’s restoration after the war and a family’s four generations. Tommi Kinnunen, born in Kuusamo, works as a teacher. Neljäntienristeys, published in 2013, was his second novel and a grand success, with 75 000 copies sold in Finland and also set on stage. It...
The 68 th Berlinale International Film Festival(Pre-screenings) Genesis (2017)(Hungarian)Director: Árpád Bognár In this year of the Berlinale, this is the only new Hungarian film which is from next week will be screened in the section of Panorama. This is the second film of Bognár. The first, entitled as Happy Life,...
The private gallery of Federico Luger was opened in 2005 in Milano. Their new exhibition, "Portraits from the early 21th century", is a collection of Attila Szűcs's works. This is a great opportunity for the Hungarian painter to introduce himself abroad. We asked Attila about his connection to the gallery,...
The Berlinale Classics section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival will present the world premieres of a total of seven films in digitally restored versions. Wim Wenders’ prize-winning classic Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, Federal Republic of Germany / France 1987) returns to the screen in a new, digitally restored 4K DCP...
Interview with the Naturally 7. – Concert in Müpa In the early years of the band, you hesitated between having a traditional or an a cappella group. What made you choose the a cappella style? Our Church experience really played an important factor in that, many of us sang in...
The government has earmarked an additional 106 million forints (EUR 338,000) to support the completion of the revamp of the Subotica (Szabadka) synagogue, Europe's second largest, in Vojvodina, according to a decree published in the official gazette Magyar Kozlony. Under the decree published in the gazette’s Tuesday issue, an amount...
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