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A new symphony by composer Janos Vajda will open the 10th International Opera Festival in the city of Miskolc (NE) on June 9-20, organisers told reporters on Wednesday.
March 8, 2010
The city of Pecs in southwestern Hungary will present the works of hundreds of Roma artists as part of the programmes of European Capital of Culture 2010, head of the local Roma council told the press.
March 1, 2010
Hungary's Magvető, which introduced Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men to Hungarian readers, has published the American writer's The Road.
February 27, 2010
An exhibition of artists from Hungary's southwestern city of Pecs, which is the European Capital of Culture this year, opened in the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday.
February 26, 2010
Hungarian Education and Culture Minister Istvan Hiller met with his Romanian counterpart Hunor Kelemen in Bucharest on Friday to discuss bilateral relations, EU related issues and the renewal of a cooperation agreement.
February 23, 2010
The Israeli Cultural Institute, the first in the world, will open in Budapest's Paula Ede utca in the autumn. Before the renovation of its new home, the institute is organising an open week on February 21-28.
February 21, 2010
Dance productions, including contemporary, ballet and folk, are on the Pécs2010 European Capital of Culture programme.
February 21, 2010
The Hungarian pianist Alex Szilasi will perform works by Chopin at the Hungarian Culture Institute in Warsaw on Sunday. The concert is part of celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.
February 21, 2010
Two civil organisations in Sopron plan to erect a statue honouring András Sütő, a writer and a member of the Hungarian minority in Romania who had close ties to the city in western Hungary.
February 21, 2010
Minister of Education and Culture István Hiller on Friday inaugurated the new home of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Bucharest.
February 20, 2010
The Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFZ) and the Palace of Arts will hold their third music marathon - this one focusing on Beethoven - on Sunday, BFZ Director Tamas Korner told MTI on Thursday.
February 20, 2010
Hollywood's Raleigh Studios hosted a gala on Thursday to celebrate its new Budapest studios, which will open officially on April 1.
February 19, 2010
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For the first time this season a revival of Sandor Zsoter's hugely successful Orpheus and Euridice is to be performed on Saturday by the Hungarian State Opera under the baton of its musical director Adam Fischer.
February 19, 2010
Hungarian National Theatre director Róbert Alföldi is directing a production of Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata, in which the title character convinces the women of Greece to withhold sex from their men to force them to negotiate peace and end the Peloponnesian War, for the Croatian National Theatre. Culture.hu talked with Alföldi in Croatia.
February 19, 2010
A screening of the Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdu's new film Bibliothéque Pascal, about a literary bordello, sold out in Berlin. The film is competing in the 60th Berlinale's Forum section.
February 19, 2010
A photo exhibition presenting the life and traditions of orthodox Hungarian Jews will open in Budapest on Thursday.
February 18, 2010
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra will perform works by Béla Bartók, György Ligeti and Joseph Haydn as part of its Hungarian Echoes programme next spring.
February 18, 2010
A performance at the Pécs National Theatre was interrupted on Tuesday after old equipment on the set jammed.
February 18, 2010
Hungary's Nikoletta Szőke Quartet played sold-out concerts at Tokyo's Cotton Club on February 14-16, performing material off their new album My Song.
February 17, 2010
Budapest's Millenáris is showing an exhibition of photographs that documents the plight of children in Uganda called "Children on the Edge of Surviving".
February 17, 2010
