The ministerial commissioner of the Hungarian State Opera, Adam Horvath and the management of the institution, in accordance with the National Resources Minister Miklós Réthelyi decided to cancel Opera Ball this year.
The ministerial commissioner of the Hungarian State Opera, Adam Horvath and the management of the institution, in accordance with the National Resources Minister Miklós Réthelyi decided to cancel Opera Ball this year.
A three-day festival started in Pecs in the south of Hungary, culture capital of Europe in 2010, on Wednesday, to close a year-long series of concerts, exhibitions, film shows and many other events of culture and entertainment.
In 2011 we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Ferenc Liszt’s birth. The year-round series of programs includes more than a thousand concerts, exhibitions and conferences worldwide, dedicated to one of the greatest piano virtuosos of all times.
An exhibition displaying relics unearthed through cooperation between Hungarian and Syrian archaeologists at Syria's medieval Margat Castle has been opened to the public in the Hungarian National Museum.
The Hungarian Film Week, the country's most important film festival, has not been cancelled contrary to earlier reports by industry journal Variety, but no foreign guests will be invited, according to the general manager of Magyar Filmunió.
The Kodály Center, a major investment project of this year's European Capital of Culture project, was formally opened Thursday in Pécs, southern Hungary. It is to serve primarily as a venue for a venue primarily for conferences and concerts.
The Kieselbach Galery in Budapest has been dedicated to ‘nursing’ and scientific processing of art. Recently, they held a press conference to announce the First Hungarian Painting and Art Evaluation Office that is to help exclude fraudulent works of art.
’Obama – the road to the White House and always further…” is the title of a new book in Hungarian by Pál Bokor, a former Hungarian correspondent in the United States about the election and the presidency of Barack Obama.
"All our current programs and projects, such as Active Citizen, Rivers of the World, Challenge Europe, aim to contribute to social change and to make this world a better place to live,” director Simon Ingram-Hill says.
The city has seen an abundance of civil initiatives in recent years which are independent of state or corporate sponsorship, work in a not-for-profit model, and complement the offer of large staterun museums and galleries.
The aim of the Hungarian Basketball Federation to restore the popularity of the sport in Hungary is on its way to be accomplished. President Ferenc Szalay tells the reason why basketball should be promoted among young people, serious businessmen and diplomats.
A café and tea house in downtown Budapest named 'Purple Fog' organizes literary auction, online mentoring and literary workshops with a special emphasis on self-actualization and professional improvement.
It seems that the exhibition ‘Treasures from Budapest’ at London’s Royal Academy of Arts is a surefire block-buster. Visited by 5,000 people in one weekend, the show proves to be so popular that it might take a European tour next year.
Tony Curtis, Hollywood’s greatest actor born in a Hungarian family, died in bed at his Las Vegas home on September 29 of cardiac arrest at the age of 85. Between 1949 and 2008, he played in 130 movies. He was always proud of his Hungarian descent.
Attracting two and a half million people each year worldwide in some 100 different locations, the world’s most prestigious annual photo exhibition, returns to Budapest. The exhibition opens on Oct 1 in Millenáris Park.
