17 result(s) for dm in Community & Culture
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.
Dance Blossoms In Budapest This Spring
- 31 Mar 2016 1:00 AM
- community & culture
Starting with an International Ballet Gala, next month offers a wide range of great entertainment for dance fans in Budapest. Lovers of classical ballet can see Sir Peter Wright’s version of 'The Sleeping Beauty' at the Opera House. Two new contemporary dance productions and a 'panorama of the Hungarian dance scene' await audiences at Erkel Theatre, such as 'Solaris: Space Fantasy' which ...
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.
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mupa, 25 February
- 21 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
Besides works for performance in the concert hall and on the musical stage, Dmitri Shostakovich had a penchant for writing incidental music for the stage and film scores.
Nutcracker, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, 28 November
- 26 Nov 2015 1:00 AM
- community & culture
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker has for decades been an essential part of the Opera’s run-up to Christmas. In memory of Vasili Vainonen and Gusztáv Oláh, we are presenting for Christmas of 2015 a newly buffed-up show that follows classical ballet traditions while still conforming to the requirements of 21st century dance and set design.
Hubay Piano Transferred To The Museum Of Musicology In Budapest
- 12 Feb 2014 8:00 AM
- community & culture
The famous Hubay piano, which had been in the U.S. Ambassador’s residence for decades, has been carefully preserved and maintained by the American Embassy. In agreement with the Hubay family and the Institute of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the precious Bösendorfer piano was transferred to the Museum of Musicology on February 6, 2014, so that it could be enjoyed by a broader ...
Győr Ballet: La Vie En Rose, Festival Theatre Budapest, 7 June
- 6 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
La vie en rose is a piece of dance theatre punctuated in spectacular style by the timeless chansons of Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf, Gilbert Bécaud and Jaques Brel. The audience experiences these popular and familiar songs through the homeless Jef, living and breathing their nostalgia and bitter-sweet melancholy without losing any of their self-deprecating irony. Jef finds shelter on the streets ...
Pannon Philharmonic Concert, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 April
- 21 Apr 2012 9:02 AM
- community & culture
Hordes of music-lovers expected the young Johannes Brahms to produce a symphony, but the composer himself felt half-paralysed by the legacy of his great predecessor Beethoven. After a wait of 22, years he finally produced his Symphony No. 1 in C minor (op. 68), which was universally recognised as a masterpiece. It is said that the melody of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy can be detected in one of the ...
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.
Dance Blossoms In Budapest This Spring
- 31 Mar 2016 1:00 AM
- community & culture
Starting with an International Ballet Gala, next month offers a wide range of great entertainment for dance fans in Budapest. Lovers of classical ballet can see Sir Peter Wright’s version of 'The Sleeping Beauty' at the Opera House. Two new contemporary dance productions and a 'panorama of the Hungarian dance scene' await audiences at Erkel Theatre, such as 'Solaris: Space Fantasy' which ...
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.
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Mupa, 25 February
- 21 Feb 2016 8:04 AM
- community & culture
Besides works for performance in the concert hall and on the musical stage, Dmitri Shostakovich had a penchant for writing incidental music for the stage and film scores.
Nutcracker, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, 28 November
- 26 Nov 2015 1:00 AM
- community & culture
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker has for decades been an essential part of the Opera’s run-up to Christmas. In memory of Vasili Vainonen and Gusztáv Oláh, we are presenting for Christmas of 2015 a newly buffed-up show that follows classical ballet traditions while still conforming to the requirements of 21st century dance and set design.
Hubay Piano Transferred To The Museum Of Musicology In Budapest
- 12 Feb 2014 8:00 AM
- community & culture
The famous Hubay piano, which had been in the U.S. Ambassador’s residence for decades, has been carefully preserved and maintained by the American Embassy. In agreement with the Hubay family and the Institute of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the precious Bösendorfer piano was transferred to the Museum of Musicology on February 6, 2014, so that it could be enjoyed by a broader ...
Győr Ballet: La Vie En Rose, Festival Theatre Budapest, 7 June
- 6 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
La vie en rose is a piece of dance theatre punctuated in spectacular style by the timeless chansons of Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf, Gilbert Bécaud and Jaques Brel. The audience experiences these popular and familiar songs through the homeless Jef, living and breathing their nostalgia and bitter-sweet melancholy without losing any of their self-deprecating irony. Jef finds shelter on the streets ...
Pannon Philharmonic Concert, National Concert Hall Budapest, 21 April
- 21 Apr 2012 9:02 AM
- community & culture
Hordes of music-lovers expected the young Johannes Brahms to produce a symphony, but the composer himself felt half-paralysed by the legacy of his great predecessor Beethoven. After a wait of 22, years he finally produced his Symphony No. 1 in C minor (op. 68), which was universally recognised as a masterpiece. It is said that the melody of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy can be detected in one of the ...