Budapest Spring Festival - Program Guide

Monday, 17 March

Liszt Ferenc Music Academy at 7:30pm: The Faces of Romanticism with Dohnányi’s Stabat Mater and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria conducted by Gábor Hollerung. Venue: District VI, Liszt Ferenc tér 8. Tel: 342-0179



Tuesday, 18 March

Matthias Church at 8pm: the world premiere of Levente Gyöngyösi’s Passion. Venue: District I, Szentháromság tér 2. Tel.: 355-5657



Wednesday, 19 March

Palace of Arts Festival Theatre at 7pm: the Hungarian premiere of László Tihanyi’s Genitrix - a production of the Opéra National de Bordeaux. Venue: District IX, Komor Marcell utca 1. Tel.: 555-3300 www.mupa.hu



Thursday, 20 March

Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 7:30pm: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (left) performs Haydn’s “Svanisce in un momento” and The Storm, Mozart’s Symphony in D major (Prague), K 504 and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G major, op. 88. Venue: District IX, Komor Marcell utca 1. Tel.: 555-3300 www.mupa.hu



Friday, 21 March

Millenáris Theatre at 7pm: dance performance Soul Dance by Yvette Bozsik. Venue: Millenáris, District II, Fény utca 20-22. Tel: 438-5335 www.millenaris.hu
Saturday, 22 March

Palace of Arts Festival Theatre at 7pm: The Limón Dance Company performs Dances for Isadora (choreography: José Limón, music: Frédéric Chopin), The Traitor (choreography: José Limón, music: Gunther Schuller), and Suite from A Choreographic Offering (choreography: José Limón, music: J. S. Bach). Venue: District IX, Komor Marcell utca 1. Tel.: 555-3300 www.mupa.hu

Palace of Arts Festival Theatre at 7pm: The Limón Dance Company performs Dances for Isadora (choreography: José Limón, music: Frédéric Chopin), The Traitor (choreography: José Limón, music: Gunther Schuller), and Suite from A Choreographic Offering (choreography: José Limón, music: J. S. Bach). Venue: District IX, Komor Marcell utca 1. Tel.: 555-3300 www.mupa.hu



Sunday, 23 March

Italian Culture Institute at 7:30pm: the Hungarian National Gypsy Orchestra. Venue: District VIII, Bródy Sándor ut 8. Tel.: 483-2040



Monday, 24 March

Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 7:30pm: Métamorphosis - world music concert by the 25-year-old Méta Ensemble. Venue: District IX, Komor Marcell utca 1. Tel.: 555-3300 www.mupa.hu



Tuesday, 25 March

Matthias Church at 8pm: Zugló Philharmonia and the King Stephen Symphony Orchestra and Oratorio Choir will perform Purcell’s Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day and Gounod’s Saint Cecilia Mass. Venue: District I, Szentháromság tér 2. Tel.: 355-5657



Wednesday, 26 March

Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 8pm: gospel with the Blind Boys of Alabama choir. Venue: District IX, Komor Marcell utca 1. Tel.: 555-3300 www.mupa.hu



Thursday, 27 March

Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 7:30pm: Nigel Kennedy plays Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K218 and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61. Venue: District IX, Komor Marcell utca 1. Tel.: 555-3300 www.mupa.hu



Friday, 28 March

Liszt Ferenc Music Academy at 7:45pm: the Budapest Festival Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Piano concerto No. 4 in G major, op. 58 and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 in E major. Venue: District VI, Liszt Ferenc tér 8. Tel: 342-0179



Saturday, 29 March

Palace of Arts Festival Theatre at 7pm: Tamás Vásáry (piano) and Henriett Tunyogi (dance) will perform “The Two Faces of God” including works by Chopin, Liszt, Schubert and Beethoven. Venue: District IX, Komor Marcell utca 1. Tel.: 555-3300 www.mupa.hu



Sunday, 30 March

Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 7:30pm: the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra will perform Bartók’s Four Pieces for Orchestra, Péter Eötvös’s Seven, Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Stravinsky’s The Firebird. Venue: District IX, Komor Marcell utca 1. Tel.: 555-3300 www.mupa.hu
The big ticket

The Budapest Spring Festival which began last Friday and runs to 30 March is one of Europe’s largest cultural festivals with 200 performances, exhibitions, classical concerts and more. For further information visit: www.btf.hu (in English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian.) Tickets for the most-popular events are often hard to come by at this stage. Those remaining, often single seats, can be purchased in person at the festival’s customer service office (District V, Szervita tér 5) on weekdays from 10am to 6pm. Details of other events are available from www.budapestspringfestival.com, or from the customer service office, tel.: 486-3311.

www.budapesttimes.hu - Tuesday, March 18, 2008