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28 Jan

HEARLD NEWS FOR THE COMING SUMMER … ROLLING OVER TO THE ARENA DI VERONA …100 YEARS OF SUCCESSES!

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Late afternoon there was a press call at the Italian Culture Institution in Budapest, regarding to the announcement of wide-spread of programs to come during the summer of 2013,  at the Arena Di Verona.   Upon the press gathering spoke with Carrado Ferraro, Sales and Maketing Director and Francesco Girondini,  2008, Superintendent of the Opera and Symphony Foundation Arena,  (previously ’94-’98  Deputy Mayor of the city of Verona) and also they both shared interesting information about the high seasons events. The 2000 years old Arena  will be celebrating its 100 years anniversary of consistently on repertoire: opera, ballet and theater plays. As to the celebration of its 100 years, 200 breathtaking sites-and-sounds will be on stage.  Was also told, that before each arena show, the arena can be visited on a tour to see, hear about its history, along with the famous shinning stars who once step out  under the moon light at this historical scene.  No doubt , Verona is the  City of musical works. The Arena di Verona became the first open air opera house in Italy, and the largest in the world: a record it still holds today. With the Opera Festival, Italian and international culture has been enriched with a new way of presenting the performing arts, a feature that has helped to make Verona one of the European capitals of music. Last year, AIDA was out on stage on 600 occasions. This year the Arena de Verona opens with AIDA, with invited international guests. Each year the  general public is from Europe.  Naturally, most of the visitors  52-55% are from Italy, Germany and Austria takes 25% and of course there are Opera lovers from the other side of the Ocean.  The arena hold 13ooo to14ooo sear, but all depends which show goes on stage, how much space is needed for the performances. This year it will be the a most sophisticated, representative show. The opening of the Opera Festival in the middle of June, for almost a century, represents an important media and cultural event for not just for the City of Verona, but as well for all visitors whose ears are sharp for a pleasant evening at the opera.

Indeed, the open-air theaters are unique by themselves, cause the  “stars above the skies” specifies the natural light.

Just going back in time, in 1913 many things happened around the world … the Opel made vehicle came out, the opening of the Panama channel, the brand Camel cigarette stepped into the tobacco shops and many headlines of Budapest’s natural hot springs were just to open to the public.

BACK TO THE FUTURE …

THE ARENA DI VERONA: 1913 – 2013.

… “My father was sitting at a table at the Löwenbrau,” recounts Nina Zenatello Consolaro, daughter of the tenor Giovanni Zenatello, “together with the Maestro Tullio Serafin, Ferruccio Cusinati, Ottone Rovato and the singer Maria Gay. They were talking about music, of course, opera music and Giuseppe Verdi. Suddenly my father pointed to the Arena and with triumph in his voice said, “Look, this is the theatre I’m looking for. This is where performances unique in the world could be held.” At the first test of the acoustics Zenatello raised his eyes to the starlit heaven and, as if by unconscious vocation, burst out with the first of the one thousand Celeste Aida renderings at the Arena. The tenor Zenatello and the theatrical impresario Ottone Rovato took on the financial risk of promoting a great opera performance at the Arena to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth: on 10th August 1913 Aida went on the boards with Zenatello himself in the role of Radamès and Ester Mazzoleni as Aida, Tullio Serafin was on the podium and the scene sets were by Ettore Fagiuoli. The success was sensational and decreed so by a public coming from every part of the world. The most illustrious guests included Arrigo Boito, Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Riccardo Zandonai, Massimo Gorki and Franz Kafka.

This was also the start of the brilliant history of the Arena Orchestra and Chorus, and of their conductors who consider performing at the Arena to be a unique honour and a noteworthy engagement, as well as an emotion that it is difficult to become used to. The musicians who have stood on the podium have differed widely in training, culture and style, and include three celebrated directors and composers: Pietro Mascagni in 1921, Riccardo Zandonai in 1939 and Mikis Theodorakis in 1988. After Tullio Serafin there have been many other great names: Sergio Failoni, Antonino Votto, Gino Marinuzzi, Vittorio Gui, Franco Capuana, Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Rudolf Kempe, Argeo Quadri, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Lovro von Matacic, Elihau Inbal, Nello Santi, Peter Maag, Giuseppe Patanè, Michel Plasson, Anton Guadagno, Yuri Ahronovitch, Donato Renzetti, Gustav Kuhn, Daniel Oren, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Georges Prêtre.

The greatest opera singers of the XX Century have also trod the boards of the Arena, starting with the debut of a very young Maria Callas in the role of Gioconda, in the opera of the same name by Ponchielli, in the evening of 2nd August 1947. And the names of many other singers, directors, set designers and dancers have been linked to the Festival seasons: Aureliano Pertile, Giacomo Lauri Volpi, Gina Cigna, Beniamino Gigli, Ebe Stignani, Carlo Tagliabue, Maria Caniglia, Tito Schipa, Mario Del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato, Gino Bechi, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Magda Olivero, Tito Gobbi, Franco Corelli, Virginia Zeani, Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballè, Mirella Freni, Fiorenza Cossotto, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Renato Bruson, Piero Cappuccilli, José Carreras, Salvatore Licitra, Luciana Novaro, Leonide Massine, Roberto Fascilla, Mario Pistoni, Carla Fracci, Paolo Bortoluzzi, Luciana Savignano, Maurice Bejart, Gheorghe Iancu, Vladimir Vassiliev, Rudolf Nureyev, Nicola Benois, Georg Pabst, Herbert Graf, Attilio Colonnello, Sandro Bolchi, Pietro Zuffi, Jean Vilar, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Luciano Damiani, Luciano Minguzzi, Vittorio Rossi, Gianfranco De Bosio, Beni Montresor, Remo Brindisi, Giuliano Montaldo, Sylvano Bussotti, Werner Herzog, Franco Zeffirelli.

So far there have been 89 seasons, the only interruptions being for the two world wars, under various private and public managements: in 1936 the Ente Autonomo Spettacoli Lirici Arena di Verona (the Autonomous Arena of Verona Opera Performances Board), often called simply the Ente Lirico Arena di Verona, was founded. This was when the office of General Manager was introduced. And in 1967 the Artistic Director was introduced to work together with the General Manager. In 1998 the Ente Autonomo Arena di Verona was transformed into a Foundation under private law, and the present Fondazione Arena di Verona was instituted, which has been in force since 22nd June 1998. The entry of private partners represented a very big change in the life of the Arena, bringing new impetus on the cultural level. The Foundation, in fact – like the former Ente Lirico Arena di Verona – is not dedicated to the pursuit of profit but aimed mainly at developing the city’s most important artistic activity, guaranteeing the quality of the performances and increasing their power to attract the public, as well as promoting musical education in society in general. Since 3rd April 2008 the General Manager Francesco Girondini has been at the helm of the Foundation.

Common denominators of all managements are the unique and prestigious performances: from 1913 to 2011 Giuseppe Verdi was the main author on the stage of the Arena, with his operas that are particularly suitable for the Verona amphitheatre, not only for their great epic and historic significance, as in Nabucco and Aida (of which there have been 52 versions, and 581 performances), but also for the particular scene-setting possibilities that the Arena allows also for more intimate and personal themes like those of La Traviata, Otello, Rigoletto.

But the magic of the Arena is not limited to the on-stage experience: the Amphitheatre offers nothing less than a genuine spectacle in itself, a performance within a spectacle, starting with the spell-binding ritual of lighting the candles, which precedes the start of every performance. A custom that was first conceived at the Arena and which has now been exported to all places where outdoor performances are held.

In addition to the summer Festival, since 1975 the Verona opera board has extended its artistic activity by organising, from October to May, symphonic, opera and ballet performances in the nearby Teatro Filarmonico, rebuilt after being destroyed by the bombardments of the last war. With this expansion, the repertory artistic groups were instituted – the Orchestra, the Chorus and the Ballet Corps – as well as the technicians and the administrative structure, which since then have contributed to spreading the image of the Arena di Verona throughout the world, with about 50 performances in the Arena and 70 at the Teatro Filarmonico, as well as many other performances in Italy and foreign tours. This intense work makes the Artistic Groups of the Arena world ambassadors of Italian culture, of which melodrama is one of the most important expressions. Since 2010 the Teatro Filarmonico Season has opened every year on 13th December with a new opera production, and the programme of operas, ballets and concerts closes the following year in November, with a summer break in the Arena.

AHEAD TO THE FUTURE …

ROLL OVER TO VERONA NOT JUST FOR OPERA LOVERS!

SHAKESPEARE SAW SOMETHING CAPITIVATING WHEN HE WROTE ROMEO AND JULLIETTE TO TAKE PLACE AT VERONA. NOW THE TIME HAS COME TO PAY A VISIT AND  BESIDE  VISITING THE OPERA FESTIVAL STROLL ALONG THE ANCIENT PATHS OF VERONA.

“From 14th June to 8th September 2013, 58 performances for 6 titles and 4 Gala nights welcome you at the Arena di Verona for the 91st edition of the Opera Festival, dedicated to the great composer Giuseppe Verdi, on the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth. In order to celebrate the first century of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival, and to inaugurate the next 100 years of great opera, the Centennial Festival 2013 will see the very well-known Plácido Domingo as Honorary Artistic Director; he will also be conductor and singer on the greatest stage in the world. 

The new awaited set design of Aida by La Fura dels Baus will inaugurate the Festival. Aida, the opera in the Arena par excellence, will be also displayed in its 1913 Recalling by Gianfranco de Bosio, starting from 10th August. From 15th June, Nabucco will be on stage, together with Verdi’s Popular Trilogy, composed by La Traviata (from 22nd June), Il Trovatore (from 6th July) and Rigoletto (from 9th August). From 31st August, also Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod, a permanent opera of the Arena repertoire, will be on stage.

Then we will enjoy Verdi’s music again, with Messa da Requiem, on 13th July: the Arena di Verona Orchestra and Chorus, together with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, will be conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. On 17th July, a Gala will be dedicated to the composer from Busseto, with three great conductors who will be protagonists on stage: Andrea Battistoni, Riccardo Frizza and Giuliano Carella.

2013 will also be the year of the bicentennial of the German composer Richard Wagner’s birth. On 15th August, a Gala will be dedicated to him and to Verdi, starring the young and famous Daniel Harding, who will conduct Plácido Domingo together with the greatest singers of Wagner’s repertoire, such as Evelyn Herlitzius, Violeta Urmana, Vitalij Kowaljow, and Verdian singers such as Martina Serafin. Completes the programme the 20th August Gala, in which Daniel Oren will conduct the winners of the latest editions of the Operalia competition, promoted by the Mr. Domingo.”

Further information, tickets, accommodations etc. log on to http://www.arena.it

 

 Updated by Aggie Reiter

25 Jan

„SZEM” FESTIVAL AT THE CITY OF MISKOLC – FEBRUARY, 5-10. 2013.

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A UNIQUE JOINT CULTURAL EVENT WITH THEATER STUDENTS FROM OVER SIX COUNTRIES.

Explore a variety of different acting skills by young adult student actors from Budapest, Bucharest, Kaposvár, Krakow, Miskolc, Munich, Sarajevo, Verscio (Switzerland) and Warsaw at the forthcoming unique cultural festival organised in the City of Miskolc at the „SZEM”  Festival, during the period of February, 5-10. 2013.

There has long been a manifest gap in bringing to surface together international young adult student actors in time and in space, but this will be for the first time of a kind and hopefully a repeatable, an awesome event of the year in Hungary. So be prepared to the kicks off performances to be seen at the City of Miskolc during the 1st.”SZEM” Festival. During the 5 days of the theater, the visitors having being present will most probably be thrilled to have had been a part, surrounded by so many wonderful stories, so many courageous and the relative young adult student actors from abroad and local of to-day, whose names will most probably be heard in the future, hitting the scales on the redeeming world stages. We are talking here about the theater individuals who are to-day still walking on the paths at their theater academies and even though we, as the audience have no knowledge about the actors real personality. It will be absolutely interesting to see how they form, become the character on the stage who is different from themselves.

On the occasion to the first year of the SZEM Festival, the main aim  will be as  to express the power of the human body, by movements and gestures,  so it will be a so-called  physical theater.

Just mentioning …the first day’s amazing musical performance which will take you away at the „BÍÍT” (Beat) play. Bringing back the past century’s one of the best or should I say the best band that hit the revolution in the music world “The Beatles”, a superb play on the theater’s stage. Then on another day exploring Shakespearean performance at the play of „JULIETTE MUST DIE”.  Other events will speak for themselves.

Once heard … ’”To be capable, it is to have a mind of many wonders.”

This statement is hard to surpass as a definition of capability, in a world in which change is the only constant. There is a new emphasis in the 21st. century education on the need for creativity and imagination …  as to learning … to wonder about, as well as to wonder at. So in the forthcoming days at the “SZEM” Festival in the City of Miskolc, hopefully many visitors can have their own experiences in having to wonder about and to wonder at the young adult theater students performances.

Source from the organisers … „The core aim of the Festival shall be to become one significant professional forum of Central Europe, and thus to transform the Miskolc National Theatre and the town of Miskolc itself into a community space allowing for a new generation to feel at home, to become well-informed, to be absorbed in the world of theatre performances, not only in a national but also an international context. It is important for our national theatre structure to become mobile through our event, and actors about to start their career to be provided with an opportunity by our festival to see their own profession in the light of international trends, and to consider that in the context of a new conceptual framework. It is essential for the theatre to strengthen its relationship with young people, to undertake steps to raise and maintain their interest. One of the most efficient ways to achieve this goal may be an international festival of such nature, which at the same time also helps us to value and preserve our national identity, and for us to be open, interested in and receptive as to other cultures. The primary aim of SZEM is to compile its programme solely on the basis of quality aspects. For that purpose, at the implementation of the festival, we intend to provide relief to our guests by maximum commitment to costs on our behalf. In addition thereto, we find it important for the students invited to participate in the festival not only on the day of their own performance, but during the entire period thereof, so that during their stay they would watch one another’s works and would participate in the accompanying events.”

Now here goes some mapping to the actual theater performances:

Workshops will be everyday throughout February 6 – February 9, 2013. from 10a.m.  to 1p.m.

Tuesday, February, 5. 2013.

5p.m. Hall room „FORINT/MÉDEA” Performing by the local students at the Miskolc National Theater – Recommended program 120 mins.

8p.m.- 9p.m. Main stage – BÍÍT (Beat) – Performing by students of the University of Theater and Film Arts Budapest – Hungarian program – approximately:120 mins.

Wednesday, February, 6. 2013.

5p.m.  Hall room – „1984” Performance by the students of the Academy of Performing Arts Sarajevo, BiH – International program – 70 mins.

5p.m. Studio Theater – „YO SOY USTEDES” – Performance by the students of the Scuola Teatro Dimitri, Switzerland – International program – 50 mins.

Thursday, February, 7. 2013.

3p.m.-4.30p.m. Public debate about Chekov’s “SEAGULL” apropos of the exhibition by the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts.

4.30p.m. Main stage  „CHICAGO” – Performance by the local students at the Miskolc National Theater – Recommended program – 180 mins.

5p.m. and 7p.m. Studio Theater – „JULIETTE MIST DIE” – Performance by the students of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theater Academy, Warsaw, Poland – International program – 45 mins.

6p.m. Hall room – „TOLDI” – Performance by the students of the University of Theater and Film Arts, Budapest – Hungarian program – 120 mins.

8p.m.  Chamber Theater „OUR CLASS” – Performance by the students of the Universitatea de Artă Teatrală şi Cinematografică “I.L Caragiale”, Romania – International program – 110 mins.

Friday, February, 8. 2013.

3p.m. Main Stage – „THE ATTIC” (A PADLÁS) – Performance by the local students at the Miskolc National Theater – Recommended program – 120 mins.

3p.m.-4.30p.m.  „Etudes on Beckett”  The students film screening, from the City of Kaposvár’s Mihály Csokonai Vitéz Theater Academy.

4.30p.m. Chamber Theater – „OUR CLASS” – Performance by the students of the Universitatea de Artă Teatrală şi Cinematografică “I.L Caragiale”, Romania – International program – 110 mins.

6.p.m. Hall room – „TOLDI” – Performance by the students of the University of  Theater and Film Arts, Budapest – Hungarian program – 120 mins.

7p.m.  Studio Theater – „THE COLD CHILD” (A Hideg Gyermek) – Performance by the local students at the Miskolc National Theater – Recommended  program – 120 mins.

Saturday, February, 9.

4p.m. Studio Theater – „GÉZA KID” (A Gézagyerek) – Performance by the local students at  the Miskolc National Theater – Recommended program – 130 mins.

5p.m. and 8p.m. Main Stage – „SPRING AWAKENING” (A tavasz ébredése) – Performance by the students of the University of Theater and Film Arts Budapest – Hungarian program – 80 mins.

7p.m. Chamber Theater – „THE STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE” (A vágy villamosa) – Performance by the local students at Miskolc National Theater – Recommended program – 100 mins.

7p.m. Hall room – „VISITATION” – Mutual performance by the students of the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding and the  Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna im. Ludwika Solskiego w Krakowie, Germany and Poland – International program – 50 mins.

Young adult dramatics students from universities and colleges will meet to see, learn, exchange  experiences of each other’s method of education and most of  all to share with the audience their play.

Make a note of the dates on your calendar as to  pay a visit to the plays. The performances  in English and French will be subtitled in Hungarian back-and-forth.  Concerning the ticket prices …  the site ain’t yet updated,  anyway follow the  below link to reach more information:

http://www.szemnsz.hu/tickets

Updated by Aggie Reiter

24 Jan

HERALD NEWS … UPCOMING EXHIBITION AT THE ARI KUPSUS GALLERY

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You are cordially invited to the

 Exhibition Opening

of works by

Nadya Hadun and Yan Yeresko

 at  the

 Ari Kupsus Gallery

Access: District VIII. 23/b Bródy Sándor Street, Budapest

January, 30. 2013

6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The exhibition can be visited until February, 22. 2013.

 +36 20 3220 334

Wines will be served by the Sumegi Keller Ltd.

ari@arikupsusgallery.com, www.arikupsusgallery.com
www.facebook.com/arikupsusgallery

Paying a visit to the exhibition is great way to learn more about the paintings and the artists, who will be present at the gallery on the opening evening.

Update by Aggie Reiter

24 Jan

W!ZZ AIR HUNGARY – TAKES YOU TO MALTA FROM MAY,17. 2013!

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 SOURCE FROM W!ZZ AIR.

“NEW BUDAPEST-MALTA ROUTE ANNOUNCED

 WIZZ AIR NOW FLIES TO 30 COUNTRIES

Budapest, 24th January 2013: Wizz Air, Hungary’s largest airline, today announced its new Budapest-Malta route which will initially operate two times per week from 17th May 2013.

Wizz Air’s latest growth in Budapest will increase the number of routes served from Hungary to 35 and also marks Wizz Air’s entry to the 30th country it operates to. Wizz Air’s newest route is good news for Hungarian holiday makers and weekend sun seekers as for the first time passengers between Budapest and Malta will enjoy really low fares paired with Wizz Air’s great service and direct flights. Seats are now available for booking with fares from just HUF 7,990* on wizzair.com.

NEW ROUTE BUDAPEST-MALTA:

Starts: May, 17. 2013.

Weekdays: Monday-Friday

Schedule: 6.45 a.m.

Fare price from: 7,991 HUF

Daniel de Carvalho, Corporate Communications Manager at Wizz Air, said: “Wizz Air is very pleased to introduce yet another great destination to the Hungarian travel market. The historical Mediterranean island-state of Malta boasts idyllic coves and beaches on three different islands and offers twice as much sunshine per years as cities in Northern Europe. Wizz Air’s Monday and Friday flights will make this destination very attractive for weekend trips to the Med. But the good news don’t stop there: the people of Malta are enthusiastic travelers, often flying to the mainland for shopping. We believe Budapest’s offer of culture, gastronomy, high street shops and excellent hospitality, soon will conquer Maltese passengers which will further boost tourism traffic in Hungary.”

* one way price including taxes and maximum booking fee

Wizz Air is the largest low-fare, low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe and operates a fleet of 39 Airbus A320 aircraft from 16 bases with over 250 routes connecting 84 destinations across 30 countries. At Wizz Air a team of 1,500 professionals deliver superior service and very low airfares making Wizz Air the preferred choice of over 13.5 million passengers in 2013.

For more information: Daniel de Carvalho ; Wizz Air Group; +41-22-5559889″

I have been planning to visit Malta for ages. Now it seems it will be more convinient to go and  enjoy the landscape and hospitality I have heard so much about.

Update  by Aggie Reiter

23 Jan

DEZSŐ TAKÁCS ARTIST EXHIBITION AT THE CITY OF PÉCS

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A few days ago, Dezső  Takács, Rudnay-winning graphic artist,  teacher, painter, graphic artist  has stepped into his 8th decade and on this occasions the City of Pécs’s  Gallery, at the Szécsényi Square opens an exhibition of his art work.

January, 25 to be seen until February 24. 2013.

The exhibition will be opened by Kossuth Prize winning architect and professor Zoltán Bachmann.

In the beginning of his career  for  two years  worked as a teacher  at Villány. Moved to Pécs in 1961 where from then on he lived and worked.  His significant works as an art teacher, as an inspector,  as a consultant in planning  art education  at the surrounding school in Pécs.

At Leipzig was a scholarship, where he was at a local college and educated himself at lithography workshops. Between 1977-78 took part in the creating community by reorganizing art at Mako. For many years to come he taught artists from home and abroad of stone and printing preparation at the occupations Graphics and Creative Workshop for Educators Workshop. For sixteen years, founder and teacher at the Creative Arts Workshop,  Head of the Fine Arts in Mecsek Mining Circle (now Medgyessy visual artist Francis Circle).

Basically, deals with graphics. In the 60s produced mainly lino technique . In the second opart of the ’60s, he had his first solo exhibition, also in this period brought the ink drawing geometric-constructive concept.

His most characteristic works can be seen  at the city of Pécs  o the etchings depicting buildings. Dezső Takács have had already 100 solo exhibitions. Also held exhibitions in many European countries, Pretoria, South Africa.  His permanent exhibition at Pécs  can be viewed at the Aquarium and Terrarium at the English-German Language School Center.

He also has a number of different graphic communicated in the daily and weekly newspapers. His most characteristic works of the city of Pécs sights etchings depicting buildings.

Dezső Takács known series: Miner’s Life, Old Pécs, Gates at Pécs,  Monuments of Pécs,  Churches, Temples, Baranyai German’s minority villages, and Region Tettye, Reflections, Villany-Siklos Wine Route.

Awards and Honors:  National Service Medal of Merit Gold Standard.

Update by Aggie Reiter

22 Jan

CÉZANNE – INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM – MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS – BUDAPEST

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At the Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts you can rarely see such a great life’s work  held at the comprehensive exhibition with the show of Cézanne. Previously, had the pleasure to visit the breathtaking exhibition and looking forward to be present at the forthcoming International Symposium.

Just a brief reminder of  Cézanne’s past … “Although Cézanne (1839-1906) is usually associated with Provence, he cannot be confined to the south of France. He spent more than half of his time as a painter in Paris and its environs. He travelled between Aix-en-Provence and Paris over 20  occasions, of course, not for the same reasons when he was 20, nor  when he was 60 yrs. old.. When he was already an elderly man and still racked with doubts (“I am making slow progress,” he wrote at the end of his life) he painted in secluded spots on the banks of the Marne or near Fontainebleau, or made portraits of an art dealer or a critic and often his wife. He was no longer the young man eager to “conquer” Paris, wanting to be admitted to the fine art school and show his works in the Salon. In Paris, he came up against both tradition and modernity. He worked out “formulas” that he later used in Provence. He shuttled back-and forth between Provence and the Ile de France, although the rhythm of his journeys changed. After 1890, critics, art dealers, and collectors started to take an interest in his work. Cézanne longed for recognition which could only come from Paris. More than any other artist, he left his stamp on modern art: avant-garde artists from the postimpressionists to Kandinsky looked on him as a forerunner, “the father of us all” as Picasso said.”

Below the source is from the Museum of Fine Arts -Budapest

Symposium-Cézanne and the Past

Cézanne and the Past. Tradition and Creativity

International Symposium

At the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Baroque Hall

Access: District XIV. 41 , Dózsa György Rd.

Monday, January 28, 2013.

Open hour 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

The conference is free of charge.

This symposium, organised in the occasion of the Cézanne and the Past. Tradition and Creation exhibition will focus on different themes and issues that could not be dealt with in detail within the frame of the show and its catalogue (such as Cézanne and Antiquity, Cézanne and Courbet etc.). The invited lecturers (all internationally renowned scholars) will examine different aspects of Cézanne’s relationship to the past from a new, original point  of view.

 

The symposium will be chaired by Richard Shiff, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, who also participated to the exhibition catalogue with an article entitled Sensation, Cézanne. His book Cézanne and the End of Impressionism. A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art, published in 1984, was one of the most influential studies on Cézanne of the last decades.

Faya Causey, Head of the academic programs department at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. A specialist in ancient art, Causey is the author of many articles appearing in a variety of journal and catalogues. She will examine the influence of Antiquity (especially Greek and Roman sculpture) on the art of Cézanne. Causey studied the relationship between antique and modern art in her essay Jasper Johns: Ancient Aspects.

Matthew Simms, associate professor at California State University, Long Beach, will present a lecture entitled Cézanne, Drawing and the Past. Simms has worked extensively on nineteenth century French art and criticism. His research and writing on Paul Cézanne resulted in articles or reviews. His first book, entitled Cézanne’s Watercolors: Between Drawing and Painting was published by Yale University Press in 2008.

Mary Tompkins Lewis, professor at Hartford Trinity College, Connecticut contributed to the catalogue of the Cézanne and the Past exhibition with an essay on „Cézanne and Louvre”. On the occasion of the symposium, she will examine the copies made by Cézanne after the so-called „Écorché”. The French artist copied this sculpture, traditionally attributed to Michelangelo, no less than twenty times in drawing, watercolour and oils.

André Dombrowski, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia will discuss the topic Cézanne, Wagner and the Origin of Art. His dissertation, completed in 2006, focuses on Cézanne’s early works and many of his essays articles deal with the French artist. He is the author of Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life (University of California Press, December 2012)

Jean-Claude Lebensztejn Parisian art historian and critic will present the circumstances of creation of Cézanne’s painting Female Nude (Léda II) (presently exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest). This lecture will provide an interesting complement to Lebensztejn’s analysis of Cézanne’s „Leda series”, published in his book Études Cézanniennes (2006), collecting his essays on the French master.

Denis Coutagne will study Cézanne and Courbet’s artistic relationship. As the former director of musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence and being the president of the Paul Cézanne Society, Coutagne participated to the preparation of several exhibitions on Cézanne. In 2006, Coutagne was co–curator of the Cézanne in Provence exhibition showed in Aix and Wahington. In 2011, he was member of the Scientific committee of the exhibition Cézanne and Paris (musée du Luxembourg, Paris).

The Symposium will end with András Rényi’s lecture focusing on the copies by Cézanne after Caravaggio’s Entombment. András Rényi, Head of the Institute for Art History at Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös University (ELTE), Budapest. He studied Caravaggio’s masterpiece in an article published in 2001: A holtpont igézete. Adalékok Caravaggio testfelfogásához és „naturalizmusának” képi szintaxisához (Enigma, 2001, 30 sz).

The conference will be held in English and French (Simultaneous interpretation from French to Hungarian will be provided).

Update by Aggie Reiter

21 Jan

“KING ARTHUR” ARRIVING IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO THE ÁTRIUM FILM AND THEATER – BUDAPEST

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King Arthur Part Two-The Round Table.

A TIMELESS MYTHS

Átrium Film-Theater – Budapest

    Friday, February, 08. and 15. 2013 – 7 p.m.

District,  II.  55 Margit Blvd. Budapest

„The Emblem” dominants ideas, such as the love of God, men, and noble deeds. „The Cross” is a reminder to live a pure and stainless life, to strive after perfection and attain the „Holy Grail”.A few thoughts connected to the Emblem of the Knights
The Emblem of the Knights was  given at a ceremony  being made a „Knights at the Round Table” by King Arthur. All the Nights worn the Emblem around their necks.

„The Red Dragon” of King Arthur represents the allegiance to their King. „The Round Table” was to illustrate the Eternity of God, the Equality, Unity, undertook dangerous quests,  protected ladies and damsels and Comradeship of the Order and Singleness of purpose of all the Knights.

King Arthur – Part Two is a tale about the Round Table!

The birth of lifelong friendships, and it presents the change from a young man to a great king. But careful; not everyone is who they appear to be!

King Arthur Part Two is the first project of the Budapest Expatriate Amateur Theater (BEAT).

There is a historical basis to the character, no need for a reminder of him as a legendary figure from the late Middle Ages. No question, he would have gained fame as a warrior battling the Germanic invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. Since there is no conclusive evidence for or against Arthur’s historicity, the debate will continue … but what can not be denied is the influence of the figure of King Arthur who has captured imagination in numerous historical novels, in art, in music, and the view of the society from the Middle Ages up to the present days showing theater performances all around the world.

Here in Hungary, at the Átrium Theater, Budapest , in the area of the Buda side of Budapest a  long-awaited  English language theater performance will be on stage in with Hungarian subtile. This will be a superb opportunity for practising the English language and an awesome evening for the foreigners to enjoy theater performance in their mother-tonge language.

Be prepared for a great casting:  Roderick Hill, as King Arthur, James Clok, as Merlin, Liana Andrews, as Guinevere, Antonios Vellerefontis, as Lancelot, Madeline Damasdi, as Morgause,  Kathleen Meyts, as Witch/Sir Kay, Katie Benson, as Coba Witch/Village Boy, Gretchen Meddaugh, as Witch/King Pellinore .

The play is directed by László Magács.

Ticket  can be purchased at the ticket office on the spot: or further information through dailing: 

+36 1 317 9338 or +36 1 318 9844

 

Update  by Aggie Reiter

18 Jan

EXPERIENCE THE JOURNEYS ON THE MÁV NOSTALGIA TRAIN PROVIDED FOR THEIR PASSANGERS IN FEBRUARY, 2013

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Upcoming programs for February, 2013.

Seems like now-a-days the winter imbedded itself, but hopefully will wake-up and slowly go.  Until then,  the  MAV Nostalgia Ltd. offers  a variety of new trips coming up this year. Romantic breaks to spend time at historical sites, hopping over to festivals, enjoying the, adventures, services while trolling  on  the trails to-and-from on the MÁV nostalgic trains. After the winter break opening the trails, the first route will be at February, 14 for the lovers and the  ones who will become lovers on Valentine’s Day. The Valentine’s Day CandleLight Express crooner will be Róbert Gergely on the  Orpheum  car to  entertain the guests.

Now in brief to the upcoming date, February, 14 the Valentine Day on the CandleLight Express. This is a special journey on a luxury train which takes you away from the average days for three hours. The dining with delightful menu for meat or vegetarian lovers is served in the original Orient Express dining carriage along with the finest Hungarian wines to met the taste offered by a sommelier. Also on board a saloon car and a bar will be available at their fingertips. To make the place and time unforgettable, the company can kae  arrangements in providing a bunch of flowers on your table, or the event is connected to ones birthday, then arrange a birthday cake, a bottle of champagne. The guests arriving to  the CandleLight Express will be welcomed with a glass of  champagne at the Western Railway Station in the “Royal waiting room”  (easy to reach from the outdoor parking area)  Boarding on the train is expected to be 45 minutes before the dinner is served.  The CandleLight Express will be on track number 9. at the Western Railway Station, Budapest.r.

Shorty after the route ont he CandleLight Express route comes one of the most popular events outside of Budapest between February, 22-24 will be heading to the City of Miskolc to participate at the 13th Meat Jelly Festival. To get into the details of every single minute of the 36 hours at the Meat Jelly Festival would take here pages, and too much writing may wear out the eyes and above that I do not wish to share all the secrets,but at Miskolc will be able to get to know what is the connection between the legend of the Meat Jelly with Miskolc, so just  mentioning a few interesting backgrounds to get into the mood and hop on the MÁV Nostalgia Ltd. train and head to feel, see it for yourself.

The MÁV Nostalgia Ltd and the train itself  … Modern, convenient, with a classy elegant touch. The excursion train will take all the passengers on a fun ride. What do I mean by saying „’Fun Ride! It is in the name, the staff will do their best to make this journey memorable for young and old. Programs throughout the whole route back-and-forth will ensure a fun ride full of pleasures for instance: as for the start a „welcome drink” games, gifts, little surprises, a real adventure too.

As  already mentioned,  the train will run to the City of Miskolc to take passengers  b oth ways to the Meat Jelly Festival. A lifetime experience with unforgettable programs for everyone from the age of 3 up to 103 that will be ensured by traveling on the Hungarian State Railway – MÁV Nostalgia Ltd. If you wish to be a part of it and explore a terrific and tasty event, plan your journey, your place is on this train. The Meat Jelly festival is „more than a legend”.  Along the journey your host will be Mr. András Szendrey, Executive Director, who will make sure all passengers on board will feel they are the only one on board. Will not allow anyone to feel bored nor dull. Even those who may be dozing he surely will enrich all the way full programs by holding games, hands out gifts, little competitions with small surprises, welcome drink and far haven’t mentioned all the goodies and entertainment that surely will draw the attentions. Mr. Szendrey also will be talking about the background, the birth of the Nostalgia Train Ltd. Also rolling it’s historical wheels  on the track back in time when the Orient Express worn the overhead sliding rails through Europe.

More to the entertainment side, there will be an “Entertainment Car” so-called Orpheum set up with modern sound system and light effects. A live band will be giving over the dance floor to those who would like to dance their way to Miskolc. The time flies even though the journey was by train and not by plane. The train rolls into the Railway Station at Miskolc after two and a half hours on the trails and you just simply don’t realize “how come we have already arrived”!

More information regarding to the further programs of this year’s MÁV Nostalgia Ltd. see  www.mavnosztalgia.hu/en

Update by Aggie Reiter

16 Jan

DIRECTORIAL DEBUT OF DUSTIN HOFFMAN WITH THE MOVIE “QUARTET”

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PREMIER ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 24. AT THE URÁNIA CINEMA

 District VIII. 21, Rákóczi Rd. Budapest
+36 1 486 3400
Tickets are available on the spot.

Now, at age 75, Dustin Hoffman has  a new added “director” to his resume. His first debut as a directorial with the „QUARTET” is just about to come to our doorstep in  Hungary. After the premier in Great Britain, in the United States of America,  Australia and New Zealand here in Budapest can enjoy the Quartet movie.  Bet Dustin Hoffman enjoyed  every single minute of shooting the film.  Now it’s up to you  to have a carefree time at the Uránia Cinema.

… Now on Thursday, January, 24. the Uránia Cinema address: District , Rákóczi Rd. Budapest will hold its premier.

The movie will be visible with  subtitled  and also come out with synchronous version by the ADS Service Ltd.

In a nutshell … Following the ordinary life at Beecham  retired home, the everyday life comes are over when beside the peaceful tenor, alt and bass  opera singers,  suddenly realize a soprano has moved in the house.

Grievances and affection, sympathy, and defiance alliances are concluded. Onwards and upwards are to arrive on the scene  with the lifelong friends  Billy Connolly, as Wilf and Tom Courtenay, as Reggie, together with Pauline Collins, as Cissy, when Jean Horton, as Maggie Smith arrives and moves into the Beecham House. She is Reggie’s ex-wife. She becomes the fourth and the Quartet is completed. From then-on the plans for this year’s concert start to unravel. As old grudges threaten to undermine past glories and theatrical temperaments play havoc with the rehearsal schedule, it becomes apparent that having four of the finest singers in English operatic history under one roof offers no guarantee that the show will go on. BUT … YES the show goes on as a joyous and entertaining film is about to fulfill. Redefining old age and growing old with hope, life and the human spirit dimmed even as the brightest stars start to fade.

Don’t expect to see a boring movie… not at all, especially in the winter season of foggy, hail, snowy, the bruuhaa weather. This movie will take you out of your everyday’s normal  life. Will warm up each-and-every soul at the movie… why(?) cause there are plenty of laughter to come, getting hot-and-cold, giving and taking, all well-known in our everyday lives.

Excellent choice of actors by Dusty Hoffman, such as … Six-time „Oscar” nominee and two-time winner Maggie Smith (The Harry Potter series, Downton Abbey, Gosford Park). The Double „Oscar” nominee and BAFTA winner Tom Courtenay (The Dresser, Doctor Zhivago, Billy Liar). BAFTA nominee Billy Connolly (Mrs. Brown). The „Oscar” nominee and BAFTA winner Pauline Collins (Shirley Valentine). The ” Oliver” Award-winning Sheridan Smith (Legally Blonde, The Musical), last but not least the four-time BAFTA winner Michael Gambon (the Harry Potter series, Gosford Park).

Dustin Hoffman once said, the best directors comes from being former actors. 

(May I add here …yes…  through the past decades of  movies we have seen some superb actors with awesome director skills.)

Dustin Hoffman believes in the actors, as he  once said, “Let them fail, try over-and-over again and all at the end will be perfect. The directors spend quite some time on creating the scene, take, sound spotting, finding the right ankle for the shot, where the placement of the lights should be etc. and when the director feels he/she got what it takes, calls the actors from the waiting room to do their first shot perfectly.  If, the first shot immediately does not come to the need of the director he/she becomes impatient.” These experiences led Hoffman to build a production  from his own acting experiences and  indeed,  holds all it needs to have a grand success.

First-time director Dustin Hoffman is one of the world’s most celebrated actors. He has received seven „Oscar” nominations, winning two Best Actor Awards, for Rain Man and Kramer vs. Kramer, and ten BAFTA nominations as Best Actor, winning four awards, including Best Actor for both Tootsie and Midnight Cowboy. The above list of the films Hoffmann played reflects of  a marvelous talented actor and the most promising newcomer on the scenes since in 1969.

Sir Ronald Harwood CBE is equally celebrated as author, playwright and screenwriter, with three „Oscar” nominations, winning the Best Adapted Screenplay for: The Pianist, and four BAFTA nominations, winning the Best Adapted Screenplay for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly in the year 2008.

The Quartet movie is based on Sir Ronald Harwood’s, stage play of the same title.

Also Sir Harwood’s play, the Quartet, is on the playlist, in Hungarian language with the title: „The Big Four” at the Downtown Theater „Belvárosi Színház”. Furthermore, two more presentations, bonded to the name of Dustin Hoffman is the Rainman and the Kramer kontra Kramer also at the Downtown Theater on their repertoire. Address: District VII. 3/a Károly Blvd. Budapest.

Update  Aggie Reiter

11 Jan

CIRCUS GALA AT ITS BEST HUNGARIAN ACROBATS AND ARTISTS IN BUDAPEST AT THE CIRCUSLAND

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Throughout the year 2012, with its outstanding shows the Circus and Variety MACIVA Hungarian Nonprofit Ltd. was recognized for its success. The Human Resources Department declared the national performing arts organization. This means that the Hungarian Circus  and Variety …. similar to the Hungarian State Opera House and the National Theater, also become a part of the apex cultural institutions.

UPCOMING CIRCUS GALA with the well-known Hungarian  acrobats and artists,  opening on  Saturday, January, 12. 2013 and to be seen until  Sunday, March, 10. 2013.

At District XIV. 12/a Állatkert  Blvd. Budapest

Tickets available on-line: http://www.fnc.hu, by dialing: +36-1-343-9630 or purchase on the spot.

The on-line ticket purchasing system designed with 5% discount to buy tickets for performances.

Why this Gala is so exceptional and outstanding to come in performance at the Hungarian circus arena (?) A large number of  Hungarian acrobats and artists are around the World fulfilling their invitations at the World’s circus areas. Certainly, was not easy to coordinate their performances, having these excellences within the same place and time to appear on the motherland arena with their breathtaking productions … more to it … not only the building itself  is the only stone circus in central Europe, but now-a-days … not too often appears … the arena’s floor is covered with sawdust  mixed with sand to comfort the animals feet, not to be damaged during the show on the hard plastic floor …. so we were told at to-day’s press demonstration.

The show presents today’s best Hungarian acrobats, artists  minute-by-minute with spectacular and most beautiful circus animals, such as the four Asian camels, Sandra, the Indian elephant, a number of forty beautiful horses, two Scottish Grey Cattle, Dutch Friesian horses figure dancing to the music together with the Circus’s dancers.

In 2013, the year’s first  national circus show… staring

Famous elephant … Sandra  “the movie star”  will be showing her grand performance. She appeared as a “co-star” in one of the James Bond movie, staring Roger Moore. This time neither James Bond, nor Roger Moore will be in the arena but, you bet … Sandra will show up.

Loránd Eötvös  & Partner – virtuoso juggling duo.  Recognitions and Awards: 1998 Hortobágy Charlemagne Prize, 2004 Budapest International Circus Festival – Special Prize. Old friends, representing the Eötvös circus dynasty.

Ágnes Németh & Roland Dittmar – comedy duo. Roland Dittmar’s awards: 2008 Circus Festival of Budapest – bronze prize and award-winning comedy duo at last year’s International Circus Festival of Budapest. Arrived just for the Budapest’s Circus Gala from France  to entertain the audience at the Hungarian arena. Stunning show and also proves that size does not matter!  No tricks here, the lady’s height is above 2 meters and the gent’s is a but higher than 1.60 meters. The married pair both have big spoon spiced with humor… that’s what you get!

Elastic-Fantastic-Bombastic – bungee jumping. The four boys between the dome mounted synchronized flying trapeze show awesome bungee-jumping with  superb acrobatic exercises.

Freiheit  – free style dressage horses. One of the greatest virtues of circus art!  Beautifully presented co-operation in harmony between man and animal. Amazing scenery lays in front of us conjure mounts joint coordinated work, synchronous movements, “spinning” technique by the free style training Dutch Frisians and Arab thoroughbred.

The FACE  – László Simet & Olga Simet & Diana Bakk  – the giant semaphore. Recognitions and Awards 1992 Circus Festival of Budapest – bronze prize, 1992 Wuhan – Gold Award, 1998 Warsaw – Gold Award, 2008 Grenoble and Dax – Gold Award, 2008 Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Republic. László Simet, one of to-day’s biggest star of Hungarian circus amazingly versatile. There was a time when he crossed over the Western Railway Station breathtaking heights on wire balancing  through the bustling traffic over the Grand Boulevard in Budapest … but for millions or billion  TV viewers watched him with goosebumps  from head-to-toe, tip-toeing the heights on wire at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Now, the heights “are in space”  with women dressed in spacesuit treading among the stars.

Mail van – horse show.  A national circus gala presentation is unimaginable without the well-known and admired equestrian traditions. This figure is at once evokes the colorful world of knights riding and virtuoso skill, an atmosphere of attractions. Horse standing at stud bridles also stems sights.

Gypsy Camp – jugglers, fire eaters, dancers. Wandering, dancers, merry cavalcade, knife thrower productions, music, jugglers,  a show with classic Gypsy camp atmosphere.

Comic trampoline. Get ready to see  a humorous with spiced acrobatic elements which already conquered many European  circus arenas. The audiences will surely view the perfect mix of comedy.

Golden Power – power-lifters. We can be confident that  in 2004 Monte Carlo International Circus Festival Bronze Clown Laureate duo’s efforts were recognized and once again here in Budapest crowned with success. Their slow movements, the ease of almost unimaginable power simply radiates.

Flórian Richter and equestrian acrobats – jockey show. Recognitions and Awards 2004 Monte-Carlo – Silver Clown Award winner and 2008  Monte-Carlo – Golden Clown Award winner. The show in 2008 at the Monte Carlo Circus Festival was without a doubt the highlight of the night which brought the Golden Clown Prize to the equestrian acrobats. The Hungarian State Circus audience can see now for the first time  Florian Richter and the equestrian acrobats.

 Update and snaps Aggie Reiter

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