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Following is a selection of shows ranging from orchestras, to dance, to exhibitions:
Friday, 20 March
Liszt Ferenc Music Academy at 7.30pm: Gábor Farkas and István Lajkó
(two pianos) will perform Mozart’s Sonata in D major, Liszt’s Concerto
Pathétique and Brahms’s Sonata in F minor. Venue: District VI, Liszt
Ferenc tér 8. Tel. (06-1) 342-0179
Saturday, 21 March
Railway Museum at 7pm: Hungarian premiere of Haydn’s Philemon and
Baucis (Tickets include return ticket for a train departing from
Nyugati Pályaudvar (Western Railway Station) at 6pm). Venue: District
XIV, Tatai u. 95. tel. (06-1)298-0558
Liszt Ferenc Music Academy at 7.30pm: Oleg Maisenberg (piano) and the
Kremerata Baltica will perform compositions by Prokofiev, Shostakovich,
Arvo Pärt, Britten and Bartók. Details: Friday, 20 March
Thalia Theatre at 7.30pm: Yoshihiro Ota (piano), Gayo Nakagaki (koto)
and Tokyo-Budapest Ensemble will perform compositions by Alkan, Minoru
Miki, Gayo Nakagaki, Beethoven and Mozart. Venue: District VI, Nagymező
u. 22-24. Tel. (06-1) 312-4230. www.thalia.hu
Millenáris at 8pm: Orchestra Baobab (Afro-Cuban rhythms, Portuguese
Creole melodies, and Congolese rumba). Venue: Millenáris, District II,
Fény utca 20-22. Tel. (06-1) 438-5335 www.millenaris.hu
Sunday, 22 March
Railway Museum at 11am: Haydn’s Philemon and Baucis (Tickets include
return ticket for a train departing from Nyugati Pályaudvar (Western
Railway Station) at 10am). Details: Saturday, 21 March
Millenáris at 3pm: Let’s go to Rio! Circus performance for children by
mime artist Csaba Méhes and the Brass in the Five wind quintet.
Details: Saturday, 21 March
Hungarian State Opera House at 7pm: Puccini’s Turandot. Venue: Venue:
District VI, Andrássy út 22. Tel. (06-1) 353-0170. Box office open
Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-show time. (When there are no shows, open 11 am
- 5 pm) www.opera.hu
Thalia Theatre at 7pm: The Tokyo Chamber Opera with Masami Tanto,
Izumi Tanabe, Noboru Hisaoka, Akire Watanebe (voice), Yumino Toyoda
(violin), Leonid Gulchin (viola), Masami Nakagawa (flute), and Yayoi
Fujiwara, Sumire Yoshihara (percussion) will perform
Atsushi-Nakajama-Sakae Nakamura-Hitshi Tanaka’s the Legend of the Moon
and Tiger. Details: Saturday, 21 March
Liszt Ferenc Music Academy at 7.30pm: Amadinda percussion group. Details: Friday, 20 March
Millenáris at 8pm: Hungarian contemporary classical music ensemble After Crying. Details: Saturday, 21 March
Monday, 23 March
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Great Hall at 7.30pm: The Martinú
Ensemble from the Czech Republic will perform works by Haydn, Martinú
and Mendelssohn. Venue: District V, Roosevelt tér 9. Tel. (06-1)
353-1574
Tuesday, 24 March
Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 7.30pm: Music of a Lost World. A
musical tour of the world of klezmer with cantors as guides. Venue:
District IX, Komor Marcell utca 1. Tel. (06-1) 555-3300 www.mupa.hu
Wednesday, 25 March
Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 7.30pm: An Evening with the
Hungarian National Philharmonic on the Anniversary of Bartók’s Birth,
conducted by Zoltán Kocsis. Details: Tuesday, 24 March
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Great Hall at 7.30pm: Haydn-Bartók
chamber evening with Gottlieb Wallisch (piano), Benjamin Schmid
(violin), Richard Harwood (cello) and Ralph Manno (clarinet). Details:
Monday, 23 March
Thursday, 26 March
Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 7.30pm: The Scottish Chamber
Orchestra with Piotr Anderszewski (piano) will perform works by J. Ch.
Bach and Mozart. Details: Tuesday, 24 March
Saturday, 28 March
Liszt Ferenc Music Academy at 7.30pm: Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky
with Jérôme Ducros (piano) will perform works by Massenet, Lekeu,
Fauré, Chaminade, Chausson and Hahn. Details: Friday, 20 March
Matthias Church at 8pm: Napoleon ante portas! Veronika Geszthy, Katalin
Halmai, Tibor Szappanos, Péter Cser (voice), the Zugló Philharmonia,
and the King Stephen Symphony Orchestra and Oratorio Choir, conducted
by Kálmán Záborszky will perform Haydn’s Nokolai-messe and Paukenmesse.
Venue: District I, Szentháromság tér 2. Tel. (06-1) 355-5657
Sunday, 29 March
Hungarian State Opera House at 7pm: Haydn’s Orfeo ed Euridice, or The Soul of the Philosopher. Details: Sunday, 22 March
Monday, 30 March
Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 7.30pm: The Mahler Chamber
Orchestra with Fazil Say (piano), conducted by Daniel Harding will
perform works by Schumann, Beethoven and Brahms. Details: Tuesday, 24
March
Tuesday, 31 March
Hungarian State Opera House at 7pm: Haydn’s Orfeo ed Euridice, or The Soul of the Philosopher. Details: Sunday, 22 March
Thursday, 2 March
Thalia Theatre at 7pm: Folk dance show The Dancing Master performed by
Tibor Makovínyi and the Honvéd Dance Company. Details: Saturday, 21
March
Friday, 3 April
Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 7.45pm: Budapest Festival
Orchestra with Arkadi Volodos, conducted by Sir Andrew davis will
perform works by Sibelius, Prokofiev and Schumann. Details: Tuesday, 24
March
Sunday, 5 April
Bartók Béla National Concert Hall at 7pm: Concert performance of
Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Vienna State Opera conducted by Ádám
Fischer. Details: Tuesday, 24 March
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