Another Low-cost Airline Comes to Budapest

By zoltan | Published: January 23, 2012

Jet 2

Jet2.com launches a new flight to Budapest.
The Brithish low-cost airline announced last december that from 29 March 2012 they would
launch the flight between Leeds/bradford and Budapest.
The planes of the Jet2.com will fly twice a week.
with this new flight comes into beeing an important air connection between Budapest and Leeds which is one of the fastest growing city of Britain.

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ExperiDance: Gipsies Of Nagyida

By zoltan | Published: January 23, 2012

Nagyida

9th June 2012.
15.00.
RAM Coloseeum – the capital’s first experience theatre
Budapest XIII. Kárpát utca 23-25.
Tel/fax: +36-1-222-5254, +36-1-222-5253

Sándor Román choreographer has directed  with lot of humour this performance which is made from the poem of the famous Hungarian poet, János Arany.
This poem based on a real story from the 17th century when a deserting captain lives his fortress to gipsies to defend it.For this funny story the director has used  Hungarian and Gipsy folklore music and created a brilliant choreography. The two-part ballet  is the ExperiDance  and the National Dance Company’s  joint premiere.

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Veled Uram (With you, my God) Hungarian Rock Opera

By zoltan | Published: January 21, 2012

Veled uram

10th, 11th June 2012.
19.00.
Thália Szinház
Budapest VI. Nagymező utca 22-24.
Phone: +36-1-312-4230

“Veled Uram” is a very exciting  rock opera,rich with human conflicts.
It’s not the continuation of  “István a király”  but the closing part of the state founding
Hungarian king’s  life-work.
The story is about king Stephen’s last years.
Prince Imre the king’s only son dies in unclear circumstances and  the succession battle begins.
The court is full of intrigue,machinations and forced pacts.
The situation was no different than the subsequent stormy centuries.
The rock opera was presented first more then 10 years ago.
The authors Levente Szörényi and János Bródy has made a new version of the work just for
the Budapest Operetta Theatre at the request of Miklós Gábor Kerényi.
They had written four new songs and the rock opera has gotten a movie-like nature.
Szörényi monumental music accurately depicts the psychological processes.
Actually this masterpiece as the precursor of “Árpád népe” is spanning the composer’s entire ouvre.
This is a special moment of the theatre’s life.
Great predecessors,great successors and young talents can play and sing together to present this fateful
moment of the Hungarian history.

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Heroes, Kings, Saints – Pictures and Memorys of the Hungarian History

By zoltan | Published: November 1, 2011

Székely

Until 26th August 2012.
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery)
Budapest I. Szent György tér 2. (In the Buda Castle)

The exhibition Heroes, Kings, Saints at the Hungarian National Gallery presents pictures of the Hungarian history in a special grouping.
The selection of the mainly historical paintings and portraits based on Himnusz and Szózat.The art exhibition which was created by the Hungarian National Museum, National Archives of Hungary, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the National Széchenyi Library in collaboration with the Office of the National Assembly also presents objects and documents of the Hungarian statehood.
The tematic unit “By You was won a beautiful homeland…” displays the Conquest and the fateful events of the centuries, when Hungary was a major power in Europe.
In the center of the room is Munkacsy’s Conquest and in this room housed Gyula Benczúr’s award-winning composition the Baptism of Vajk.
The exhibition displays positive and tragic events of the nation’s history with paintings as  Bertalan Székely’s Zrínyi,emblematic compositions as Titus Dugovics Self-sacrifice, The Women of Eger, or Founding the Body of II.Lajos.
Separated unit describes the glory and tragedy of the Hunyadis, through representations King Matthias and Hunyadi Laszló.
Rare opportunity will be to see the Friedrich Amerling’s Széchenyi István life-size painting wich ornates the Presidential room of the Academy.
We can meet the original manuscripts of the National Anthem and  the Szózat,and the first Hungarian colored map from 1528.

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Liszt and Budapest Exhibition

By zoltan | Published: November 1, 2011

Liszt és az orgona

Open: 10 – 18 every day, except Mondays, until 21st Marc 2012.
Liszt Ferenc Emlékmúzeum (Ferenc Liszt Memory Museum)
Budapest VI. Vörösmarty utca 35.
Phone: +361-342-7320

The  exhibition presents Liszt’s stay in Budapest from his first appearance in 1823 till 1886 when was his last concert.
Besides the events, the intent of the exhibition to present the composer’s significant role in the foundation and improvement of the institutions of the Hungarian reform-age, particularly in the Music Academy.
The exhibition would like to demonstrate the diversity of Liszt’s Hungarian identity.
Liszt’s  father in 1823 phrased the text of the poster on behalf of him saying that Liszt devotes his talent to serve the glory of his country.
This is a very important era of the  Hungarian history.
István Széchenyi’s and Miklós Wesselényi’s efforts to create the civic society is about to come true.
Széchenyi founded the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1825.
Széchenyi and Liszt met personally in 1839 and we learn from Széchenyi’s diary that he and Lajos Batthyany entertained Liszt as their guest at their homes.
They had mutual sympathy because of their way of thinking.
Liszt supported the Hungarian culture in all possible ways.
For example with charity concerts helped to establish the Hungarian National Theatre or the National Conservatory, the establishement of the Hungarian Philharmonical Society was also
initiated by Liszt.
The composer supported the male choruses the Dalárda’s  with his compositions, judgements and suggestions.
The material displayed in the middle room of the museum presents in chronological order the events of Liszt’s staying in Budapest, moreover the connections when he helped the Capitals musical life from abroad.

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Fashion Stills Exhibition

By zoltan | Published: October 31, 2011

Fashion Stills BPR

16th February – 20eth April 2012.
Sofitel Budapest Chain Bridge
Budapest V. Széchenyi tér 2.

After London,New York, Berlin,Brussel, finally the Hungarian audience can also see the outstanding photos made by four star
photographers.
The great moments and the emblematic figures of the fashion history have been immortalized by Derek Hudson, Cathleen Naundorf, Jean-Marie Périer and Gérard Uféras.
These photographers could peep behind the closed doors of the most famous designers so the exhibition reveals also hidden backstage secrets which were available only for the inner circles of the fashion world.
The exclusive photos made behind the curtains of Dior, Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, or Yves Saint Laurent are traveling the
world.These are interestin not just for their curiosities but as masterpieces of the photo-art.

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Danube-Exhibition

By zoltan | Published: October 31, 2011

Duna BPR

Open from 4th February until 29th April 2012.
Working days: 14-19
Weekends: 11-19
Magyar Fotográfusok Háza – Mai Manó Ház
Budapest VI. Nagymező utca 20.
Telephone: +36-1-473-2666

Photos of well known and unknown authors from photo collections as the Museum of the Danube, FORTEPAN, Horus Archives, MTI.
In this region there are very different countries, but there is one common thing between them the Danube.
This river has been mediating culture, economic goods,industrial developments everything since the  ancient times.
The exhibition shows the daily life of the Danube.
The archival footages and contemporary works display the characteristics of the different locations, the water and its features.
On the first floor there is a selection from the pictures of very talented contemporary photographers and shows how the river inspired them and how they see the Danube.
At the gallery Mai Manó archival images and contemporary photos present the past and the present of the Danube with a special techique called lenticular images.
The exhibition also present archival photographs of unknown authors from the Esztergom Danube Museum, FORTEPAN, the collection of the MTI and the National Association of Hungarian Creative Artists.

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Horse Exhibition

By zoltan | Published: October 30, 2011

Lótenyésztés
Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum (Museum of Hungarian Agriculture)
Budapest XIV. Városliget (City Park), Vajdahunyadvár (Castle of Vajdahunyad)
Phone number: +361-422-0765
Permanent exhibition
Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 – 18.00.
Mondays closed.

The role of horses changed at the era of the civilization.
Not only the military but agriculture and transport required horses,even equestrian sports conquested space.
Horses became a new kind of leisure.In modern times the relationship between
man and horse has received a new meaning,and generally the attitude toward animals has changed.
Horses also have an interesting part in health theraphy.
The exhibition wants to stir up children’s attention.
They can get acquainted with horses in a playful way: from the body parts to all possible colors of horses, cleaning, feeding and littering, saddles and riding equipments.
Visitors will find a real stable box in a room with a harnessed horse.
In a peeping box (cinetoscope)they can watch the ways of walking as pace, trot and gallop.
Colorful drawings on the wall will vivify one King Matthias story.
There will be a phantom horse for the bigger and a wooden pony for the smaller ones to try riding.
To the exhibition are also relating different pedagogical programs.

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Ernő Zórád Exhibition

By zoltan | Published: October 30, 2011

Zórád

Open: 10 – 18 every day, except Mondays, until 18th March 2012.
Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátó-ipari Múzeum
Budapest II. Korona tér 13-17.

In 2011 we celebrated Ernő Zórád’s centenary of birth.
He was a painter, graphic designer, illustrator, cartoonist.
On that occasion a series of events has begun with the title “Zórád 100″.
In the end of the last year has opened the artist’s lifetime achievement exhibition.
The intent of this exhibition to acquaint young people the creative work of the artist who died in 2004.
The exhibition presents Zórád’s watercolors and gouache paintings in addition to popular works as literary illustrations, slides and comics.

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Spamalot Musical

By zoltan | Published: June 26, 2011

Spamalot

24th February 2012.
19.00.
25th February 2012.
15.00. and 19.00.
26th February
19.00.
Madách Szinház (Madách Theater)
Budapest VII. Erzsébet körút 31.
Phone: +36-1-478-2041
Monty Python’s musical the Spamalot is based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
As a surprise for those who like Monty Python, in Spamalot will appear many parts of other M.P. films.
This musical tells the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
God has given a task for them, to search for the Holy Grail.
Along their journey they meet  well-known Monty Python characters as the  Black Knight, Tim the mad wizard,  knights who say “Ni!” and a bloodthirsty white rabbit.
The world premiere of the musical was in March 2005,in New York.
Spamalot has received 3 Tony awards and 14 Tony nomnations.
The Madách Theatre presents the musical in self-settlement, costumes and choreography.
The Englis authors has allowed the non replica performances of the piece,as recognition and achievement of the theatre’s past successes.
The carefully selected cast ,the new directing and scenic solutions of the popular musical are the pledge of a succesful performance.

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