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Plácido Domingo Photographer: Fiorenzo Niccoli

09. 10. 2022.

Plácido Domingo Sings Zarzuelas

The zarzuela is a long-established genre of Spanish musical theatre, dating back to the early decades of the Baroque period, and also becoming popular in a number of Spanish-speaking countries outside Spain. A distinctive feature is that prose and...

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Michael Volle Photographer: Gisela Schenker
Atala Schöck Photographer: Éva Papp
Pinchas Steinberg

10. 10. 2022.

Hungarian Richard Wagner Society 150

With composer Ödön Mihalovich as its first president, the Wagner Society of Hungary, which was founded in 1872 in Pest, was actively involved in the completion by 1876 of the Bayreuth shrine of the cult of Wagner. This concert, which celebrates the...

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Janoska Ensemble Photographer: Andreas Bitesnich

11. 10. 2022.

Janoska Ensemble: The Big B’s

The three Bratislava-born Janoska brothers and their bassist brother-in-law, Julius Darvas have a very special way of performing the well-known masterpieces of the greatest classics, be they Mozart or the Beatles, in a manner that renders them...

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Studio 5 Photographer: Krisztina Kiss

12. 10. 2022.

Studio 5

Over the recent years, Máté Bella, Balázs Kecskés D., Bence Kutrik, Roland Szentpáli and András Gábor Virágh – aka the Studio 5 Centre for Contemporary Music – have distinguished themselves with compellingly themed project concerts. They...

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Jörg Widmann Photographer: Marco Borggreve

15. 10. 2022.

Jörg Widmann: Das Gesicht im Spiegel (The Face in the Mirror) – Hungarian premiere

One of the most renowned composers and clarinettists of our time, Jörg Widmann wrote his first opera at the request of the Munich Opera Festival. The commission was for a piece that specifically addressed a contemporary, topical issue. Voted...

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Miklós Lukács Photographer: Attila Kleb
Balázs Fülei Photographer: Gábor Déber

17. 10. 2022.

Liszt and Virtuosity

Employing the formal idiom of folk music, this programme, which is based on the musical ideas of cimbalom player Dániel Szabó, seeks to reflect all that can be known about the musical taste, the popular dances and the virtuoso instrumentalists of...

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Rajkó Orchestra
János Balázs Photographer: Attila Kleb

21. 10. 2022.

Rajkó 70

Founded 70 years ago in 1952, the Rajkó Orchestra is the proud recipient of numerous awards, honours and titles. Most recently, the orchestra received a particularly valuable recognition when its special programme for the music education of Roma...

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Víkingur Ólafsson Photographer: Ari Magg
Rafael Payare Photographer: Gerard Collett
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Photographer: Antoine Saito

22. 10. 2022.

Víkingur Ólafsson and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Víkingur Ólafsson, the brilliant, world-famous Icelandic pianist has many ties to Hungarian music, to Bartók, Ligeti and Kurtág, and, thanks to such important mentors as György Sebők and György Sándor, to a great lineage of the Hungarian piano...

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