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Upcoming music events in 2015
Wagner in Budapest - Palace of Arts
11-24 June 2015
Volt Festival - Sopron
1-4 July 2015
Balaton Sound - Zamárdi
8-12 July 2015
The 2015 „Wagner in Budapest” Opera Festival will
again feature the world famous The Ring of the Nibelung tetralogy. You will see returning regular performers and outstanding Wagner singers, Judit Németh,
Tünde Szabóki, Iréne Theorin, Petra Lang, Waltraud
Meier, Christian Franz, Gerhard Siegel and Walter
Fink. This is going to be the first time you can enjoy
Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, with the title role sung
by the perennial James Rutherford, while Mary Wiedemann plays and sings Bernadett.
Volt Festival is situated in Sopron, one of the most
beautiful Hungarian cities and a beloved touristic
destination. The festival venue is close to the Hungarian-Austrian border, only 60 kms from Vienna and
80 kms from Bratislava. Although Volt attracts over
100,000 fans each year, it still managed to maintain a
special „family” atmosphere. This is the right place to
meet open-minded and friendly youngsters, all in love
with music.
Balaton sound is one of Europe’s largest open air electronic music festivals. Held annually since 2007 on the
southern bank of Lake Balaton, it features live acts and
DJ’s from all around the world, from established artist
to new names. The event is co-created by the organizers
of Sziget Festival. The fact that the event is held on the
shore of the largest lake in Central Europe in mid-summer, its twenty-hour music schedule, and the line-up
gain it significant public interest.
More info: https://www.mupa.hu/en
More info: http://www.sziget.hu/volt_english
More info: http://www.sziget.hu/balatonsound_english
Sziget Festival - Budapest
10-17 August 2015
Red Army Choir
19. Sept 2015
The Godfather Live In Concert
The Sziget Festival is one of the largest music and
cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August
in northern Budapest, on Óbudai-sziget („Old Buda
Island”). More than 1,000 performances take place each
year. The week-long festival has grown from a relatively
low-profile student event to become one of the prominent European festivals, with about half of all visitors
coming outside Hungary.
Alexandrov Ensemble is an official army choir of the
Russian armed forces. Founded during the Soviet era,
the ensemble consists of a male choir, an orchestra,
and a dance ensemble. The „Red Army Choir” has
entertained audiences both in Russia and throughout
the world, performing a range of music including folk
tunes, hymns, operatic arias, and popular music. The
group’s repertoire has included The Volga Boatmen’s
Song, Katyusha, Kalika, and Ave Maria.
For the first time ever, audiences across Europe will
experience the epic masterpiece with a live symphony
orchestra. Francis Ford Coppola’s timeless masterpiece
The Godfather (1972) will be shown on a wide screen
in HD whilst Nino Rota’s immortal score is performed
live by a symphony orchestra.
More info: http://szigetfestival.com
More info: http://www.choeursdelarmeerouge.com
More info: http://www.thegodfatherlive.eu
Focus Travel
Tour Operator
Address: H-1022 Budapest, Bimbó út 32/a
Phone: (+36-1) 438-3040; 438-3041; 438-3042
Website: http://www.focustravel.com
E-mail: [email protected]
09. Oct 2015
Upcoming music events in 2015
2Cellos
Nickelback - No Fixed Adress Tour
10. Oct 2015
16. Oct 2015
2Cellos (stylized 2CELLOS) is a Croatian cello duo,
consisting of classically trained Luka Šulić and Stjepan
Hauser. Signed to Sony Masterworks since 2011, they
released two albums and play mainly instrumental
covers of well-known pop and rock songs.The duo
have performed internationally and featured in the TV
series Glee.
No Fixed Address is the eighth studio album by
Canadian rock band Nickelback released on November
14, 2014 in Australia via Republic Records.The album
is preceded by the lead single „Edge of a Revolution”,
which was released on August 18, 2014. This is the
band’s first release on Republic Records, after leaving
long-time record label Roadrunner Records in 2013.
David Helfgott is an Australian concert pianist.
Helfgott’s life inspired the Oscar-winning film Shine,
in which he was played by Geoffrey Rush. Helfgott
generally prefers to perform Romantic music, mostly
Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann
and Rimsky-Korsakov. However, his recordings and
performances, especially that of Rachmaninoff ’s Piano
Concerto No. 3, have been criticized as „pallid, erratic
and incoherent .”
More info: http://www.2cellos.com
More info: http://www.nickelback.com/tour
More info: http://www.davidhelfgott.com
Andrea Bocelli
Hungarian State Opera
Sept 2015 - Dec 2015
New Year’s Day Concert - Zoltán Mága
1. Jan 2016
Bocelli has recorded fourteen solo studio albums,
of both pop and classical music, three greatest hits
albums, and nine complete operas, selling over 150
million records worldwide, making him one of the
best-selling music artists. He has had success as a
crossover performer bringing classical music to the top
of international pop charts.
Programmes for the stated time period:
His unique, instantly recognisable virtuoso play, his
characteristic crossover style mingling classical music,
folk music, pop music and other genres of music have
earned worldwide recognition and acclaim. The distinguishing features of his art are virtuosity, an immense
force, a desire coming from deep in his soul to give,
and a hope that music and the love that appears in it
can be a means to make the world better. His musical
mission is to get the world to know and like the Hungarian nation and Hungarian culture.
22. Nov 2015
More info: http://www.andreabocelli.com
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Georges Bizet: Carmen
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Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story
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Giuseppe Verdi: Otello, Requiem
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte
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Jules Massenet: Werther
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Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
More info: http://www.opera.hu
Focus Travel
Tour Operator
Address: H-1022 Budapest, Bimbó út 32/a
Phone: (+36-1) 438-3040; 438-3041; 438-3042
Website: http://www.focustravel.com
E-mail: [email protected]
David Helfgott
10. Nov 2015
More info: http://www.magazoltan.com