21/02/2010.
Classical music
Palace of Arts
 The first marathon, which was organised in February 2008, displayed the Tchaikovsky’s works with huge success. After that, the similarly overwhelming success of the Dvořák marathon in 2009 was not a surprise. As the protagonist of the 2010 marathon, Iván Fischer chose one of the most popular composers of all time, Ludwig van Beethoven.
In the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall and in the Festival Theatre a total of eleven concerts will take place, each 45-minutes long. The symphony orchestra concerts will be at 10.30, 12.30, 14.30, 17.00, 19.00 and 21.00 in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, and the chamber orchestra concerts will be at 11.30, 13.30, 16.00, 18.00 and 20.00 in the Festival Theatre. The schedule allows for those who feel like it (and have the endurance for it) to listen to all eleven concerts. The concerts are supplemented by free video screenings and an exhibition from the Beethoven Museum of Bonn.
Within the context of the Workshop Discussion connected to the concert, prominent representatives of different types of art and other invited guests are talking about the programme. The discussion, which is presented by Gábor Fenyő, will take place on 3 February at 17.30, in the Stairway Hall of the Palace of Arts, which is furnished like a club. The Workshop Discussions are open and the admission is free.
Palace of Arts
1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.
06 1 555 3006
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28/01/2010. - 25/04/2010.
Exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts
 The nearly sixty works of art to be exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts from the beginning of 2010 are Impressionist and Abstract masterpieces borrowed from the collection of the Pushkin Museum, Moscow. This exhibition embracing the achievements of painting of 60 years is in fact a brief summary of the history of arts in the given period, and presents the masterpieces of painters like Cezanne, Courbet, Gauguin, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh.
Museum of Fine Arts
1146 Budapest, Dózsa György út 41.
06 1 469 7100
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www.szepmuveszeti.hu
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04/02/2010.
Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
 This performer, who has more than 30 million records sold, is coming out with a new single in September 2009. The song “Come So Far, Yet Still So Far To Go” will only be released on vinyl and digitally, and the title is also borne by a soon-released compilation double album, and will also be the name of the entire tour. The compilation will lead the listener through the entire life work of one of the most famous sons of Middlesbrough, from the beginning to today.
Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
1143 Budapest, Stefánia út 2.
+36 1 422 2600
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www.budapestarena.hu
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JACKO SHOW- A Tribute To Michael Jackson - 2010 |
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16/01/2010. - 18/01/2010.
SYMA Sport and Event Centre
 Hundreds of millions of people mourned Michael Jackson all around the world. Great news for the fans: they can experience again a show from their icon, feel again his energy and power and sing again the greatest hits of pop music.
Unfortunately, the musicians and actors of the show are unable to remove the physical loss of the pop icon but his spirit and the atmosphere of their spectacular shows may be remade for a night. The show, titled Jacko and enjoying spectacular success around the world, aims to pay tribute to Michael Jakson. The show revives on the stage the legendary Bad Tour, including hits like Beat It, Billy Jean, Thriller, Wanna Be Starting Something, Shake Your Body, Human Nature, She's Out Of My Life and Jam. It features Jackson’s four dancers and choreographer, his two vocalists and four musicians. Danny Ware, who has been the pop icon’s stand-in several times in the last thirteen years, “plays” Jackson in the show. The similarity between them is breathtaking. The following question arises in everybody who has seen it: “Is it absolutely sure that he is not Michael?” Danny has already been on tour in the world’s greatest concert venues, where he deserved to be referred to as “Jacko of the ‘80s”: his music, style, moves and singing recall those of the Legend in the ‘80s. The audience receives a real, live show as Danny sings live, often together with the fans in order to enable them to be a part of the icon’s magical world.
Each and every minute of the show is spectacular in the utmost, thanks to the sight, the sound, pyrotechnic effects, the dancers and the costumes.
Dates
Saturday 16 January 2010, 7pm (SYMA Sport and Event Centre)
Sunday 17 January 2010, 7pm (SYMA Sport and Event Centre)
Monday 18 January 2010, 7pm (University Event Hall)
SYMA Sport and Event Centre
Dózsa György út 1., 1146 Budapest
Telefon: +361-460-1100
Fax: +361-460-1160
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Web: www.syma.hu
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Depeche Mode concert 2010 |
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11/01/2010.
Arena of Budapest
 The members of the British cultband - Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher - give a new concert in Budapest during the winter within the frame of their Tour of Universe.
The band was founded in 1980 and originaly had four members. During their almost 30 year long career they made 11 studio albums and sold more than 75 million records.
Tickets:
www.livenation.hu
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Calvin’ legacy – The cultural heritage of Calvinism along the Danube - 2009 |
30/10/2009. - 15/02/2010.
Exhibition
 Held in the Budapest History Museum and opening on 30 October, the exhibition of the Dunamelléki Diocese displays the Calvinist legacy of 500 years. The event, coordinated by Hungarofest Nonprofit Kft., addresses not only those interested in religious history, but those with interest in cultural history, sociology or the 19th century urban milieu as well. Visitors will be allowed to enjoy the painting made by Cranach that is considered one of the most beautiful creations of the German renaissance, and a proof of receipt signed by Johannes Calvin, which is one-of-a-kind both in Hungary and in Europe.
The exhibition will be open until 15 February 2010.
www.btm.hu
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Tutankhamun - his tomb and his treasures |
24/10/2009. - 25/04/2010.
Exhibition
VAM Design Center
 A sensational discovery 87 years ago turned the unknown pharaoh Tutankhamun into a superstar. In 1922, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the burial chambers of the ancient Egyptian king with their vast treasures – an event that caused a worldwide sensation. The story of Tutankhamun fascinates people to this day. His mysterious, premature death and unique legacy are the stuff of legend.
The exhibition shows the world’s only museum-quality replica of mankind’s most fascinating tomb and its treasures. Now, for the first time, after 87 years it offers the opportunity to visit the tomb three-dimensionally in its original state.
More information
VAM Design Center
1061 Budapest, Király u. 26.
06 1 666 3100
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From Botticelli to Titian - Masterpieces of Two Centuries of Italian Art |
28/10/2009. - 14/02/2010.
Museum of Fine Arts
 We plan to include more than 110 works at the exhibition of Italian Renaissance painting, of which 30 would come from the museum’s own collection while the majority of the remaining 80 would be borrowed from Italian museums. Other borrowing partners will be such prominent European museums as the Louvre in Paris, the Prado in Madrid, the National Gallery in London and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
A significant number of the paintings, drawings, graphics, sculptures and antiquities preserved in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts originate from Italy. More than one third of the Old Masters collection alone, comprising over one thousand items, are works by Italian masters, so we are justified in claiming that the museum is one of the most important venues of Italian culture in Hungary. We wish to organise an exhibition showing a wide spectrum of Italian art. The masterpieces, borrowed mainly from Italian collections, will enable visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts to augment their knowledge about Italian painting based on the local collection. A prominent place will be reserved at the exhibition for works by those great innovators who are not represented in the museum’s otherwise rich collection which fully documents individual schools and tendencies.
In the recent past there were two exhibitions in Hungary that provided a comprehensive picture of the painting of a nation through its masterpieces. The exhibition entitled El Greco, Velázquez, Goya. Masterpieces of Five Centuries of Spanish Painting was staged by the museum in spring 2006. Works were borrowed from several German museums and in addition from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the Prado in Madrid. With its over 200,000 visitors the exhibition was the ninth most frequented one displaying works in the world in 2006 by the old masters. At the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005 another similar exhibition had been hosted by the Műcsarnok, bearing the title Light and Shade – Masterpieces, 400 Years of French Painting. This exhibition attracted 300,000 visitors to our partner institution. Such large-scale, comprehensive exhibitions enjoy success worldwide: for example, the Guggenheim Museum’s From El Greco to Picasso enjoyed enormous success in New York last year.
More info:
www.szepmuveszeti.hu
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THE GENETIC FAMILY TREE OF OUR NATION - 2009 |
21/10/2009. - 04/01/2010.
Exhibition
Hungarian Natural History Museum
 With the involvement of prestigious Hungarian scholars and the contribution of the Millenáris, the National Geographic Channel has compiled an exhibition that provides an insight into the theories regarding the origins of the Hungarian people through displaying findings from various areas of science.
Where did we come from? What do we have in our genetic stock from our ancestors who lived in our ancient homeland? To what extent are we still the relatives of our predecessors who occupied the land where we live now? Through displaying a synthesis of the findings of historians, anthropologists and genetic researchers, the programme exhibits the diverse range of theories regarding this controversial issue.
Budapest, 1083 Ludovika tér 2-6.
06 1 210 1085
www.mttm.hu
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OPERA HOUSE - Premieres of the 2009-2010 Season |
11/10/2009. - 05/06/2010.
Opera House
 March 20-21, 2010
Richard Strauss: The Rose Knight
Conductors: János Kovács, István Dénes
Directed by: Andrejs Zagar
May 29, 2010
Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde
In cooperation with the Palace of Arts
at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Budapest Wagner Days 2010
Conductor: Ádám Fischer
Directed by: Magdolna Parditka, Alexandra Szemerédy
June 5, 2010
An evening of modern ballet
Choreography: Robert North, András Lukács and Ohad Naharin
Venue
Hungarian State Opera House
1061 Budapest, Andrássy út 22.
Contact
06 1 814-7100
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www.opera.hu
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We are opening… Posters in the socialist era - 2009 |
10/10/2009. - 28/02/2010.
Exhibition
 This time the MKVM (Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism) exhibits posters from the 1945-1989 period. The posters reflect the various trends that characterised the decades in the era, and also inform us on what products were advertised most, what kind of stores were typical, and what slogans were used in a given time. The posters, aptly stuck on advertising pillars, the enlarged pictures of stores and shop portals from the era, and displays with products from the period evoke the atmosphere of the streets decades ago. It is all about soc-deco design – and the finest of it!
Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism
1051 Bp., Szent István tér 15.
06-1-375-6249
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www.mkvm.hu
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