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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

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

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

2 Nov

FIRST BALL IN MEMORIAL TO “SISSI” QUEEN ELISABETH AT THE ROYAL CASTLE OF GÖDÖLLŐ

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Mind you … “SiSi”- Queen Elizabeth spent 2000 days at her Royal Castle at Gödöllő/Hungary.

Now you can spend in this magnificent environment one night at the Ball, that will turn the clock’s hand back in time and feel you’re in the past with her just around the corner!

Social life was always bubbling at the Gödöllő Royal Palace in the period from the beginning. “Sisi” – Queen Elizabeth loved to spend her time there and she collected in 1867 the cream of the English Aristocracy around herself. She spent her time with hunting, taking part in Riding Equestrian events or just enjoying the performances of the Queen accompanied with music in the riding hall of the palace. The Memory of Queen Elizabeth is still alive and in Gödöllő Several Organisations take care of keeping this memory. This time it will  be to salute in Remembrance of her in a new form, bringing to life the Elizabeth Ball. Gödöllő Royal Palace is proud to be the venue of this event with its unique atmosphere. Hungary’s National Monument Constantly Renewing waits for you with new Specialty.

Saturday, 8 p.m. – November, 17. 2012 – wide open gate calling the Ball lovers to the 1st. Elisabeth Ball, at the Gödöllő’s Royal Castle.

The media representatives were invited to hear, to spread the news regarding to the forthcoming  1st. „Elizabeth Ball” to be held on the 17th of November, 2012 at the Royal Castle’s renovated Riding Hall in the city of Gödöllő. After the welcoming words to the press and media representatives, Mr. Csaba Péterfi, organiser of the Elisabeth Ball said: „The timing is perfect for the Ball. On one hand, is to commemorate this year to Queen Elizabeth’s 175 years birthday, on the other hand, to celebrate the anniversary of the 145 years old Royal Castle, which was given to the couple as a „coronation gift.”

The press conference was presented by:  Dr. György Gémesi, Major of Gödöllő, Mr. Tibor Gönczi, Executive Director at the Royal Place, Ms. Márta Marfi, Marketing Director, Zwack Unicum company, Ms. Rita Cserhalmi, Head of Marketing at the Herend Porcelain Manufactory,  Dr. Zsolt Somogyvári, Medical professional leader.

The Ball will also be a charity event for the support by the income to go to the Peter Cerny Foundation, as to rescue and save the preterm infants.

The Foundation chief physician expressed his thanks in advance for the support from the organizers of the Elizabeth Ball. As he said, the past 24-years, during the hospital’s operation, the number of 54 thousand babies were assisted, of whom about 10,000 would have not survived without their assistance outside the hospital. The organizers have realized the importance, the purpose handle this good will as a  charity event as to support, to save the preterm deliveries.

During the Ball, the dance program seems very promising with guest as: Ms. Anna Herczenik, Hungarian State Opera, opera singer Mr. Xavier Rivadeneira, Ms. Marika Oszvald, “Jászai-Mari” award winner actress, operetta singer, The Old Boys, playing oldies, Ms. Lilla Vincze singer, and the Hot Jazz Band performances will fill the air of pleasure that evening.

The event will be enriched along with a special fashion show. Ms. Mónika Czédly, Head of the clothing maker, “Salon D’Elia”, told us, Queen Elizabeth clothes will be surely admired by the twelve participants at the forthcoming prestigious event. The show will give a complete picture of what the queen was wearing during her stay at the Royal Castle. These elegant dresses are arriving from Bad Isch, the Austrian sister city and Bad Isch will also be welcomed as the guess of the Ball.

The Ball’s menu  is a selection of majestic flavors. All the recipes  are from the Royal Book of Cookery.

For the sweet lovers the “Solier” confectionery will also be serving the mouth-watering flavors.

The Herend Porcelain Manufactory, will provided the servings, with the hand-painted contoured drawn peony pattern the “Indian Basket”.
One of the top decor of the Herend Pocelain. This pattern was associated to the request of the Count Albert Apponyi. See the kit and pattern in the slide-show.

I ain’t saying anything  new to the fact of dress appearance, by saying ladies evening dress and tuxedos with black tie for gent’s is expected as to give the evening the Real Royal Ball Feeling.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT WILL BE DISPLAYED ON THE  SITE: WWW.ERZSEBETBAL.HU

Update and snaps Aggie Reiter

25 Mar

“THE CIRCUS AT ITS BEST” NEW SHOW OPENING AT THE BUDAPEST’S CIRCUS

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The Circus is a place for young children and all age adults with young at heart!

The new show can be seen during the 24th of March untill the 26th of August, 2012.

The Hungarian Circus and Variety Office (MACIVA) features a prominent role in cultural life.
One of the oldest (founded in 1954) culture establishments, which is well-known of its prominent artist that have and are performing, representing the Hungarian Circus all around the world.

Approximately, 40 artists are employed at MACIVA. When the artists are not abroad, they are in the rehearsal halls getting ready to impress the audiences in coming next time to the “Circusland”.

From time-to-time, foreign artists are invited to perform in Hungary within the walls at the Metropolitan Circus.

Just a day ago the MACIVA has come out with a brand new show with some of the awesome performers to take away your breath:

Beside the foreigner artists there is one Hungarian performer in the arena, Mr. Henrik Veres, the  juggler.

One of the show’s highlights is a Family production: 3in1. One is the Saabel Family and the 3  are the productions: Dogs, Horses and Hand balancer.

Ms. Molly Saudek –Wire Act, swaying to the music

The Troupe Fantasy – Acrobats, surely to keep your breath

The Shirokaloff – With swinging panthers, leopards and tigers

The Flying Mendonca –  Trapezoidal stunning performance

Of course a circus without clowns ain’t a circus at all, therefore The Restelli Brothers will be sharing a jolly good time with the audience.

Address:

XI.th District, 12/a Állatkerti Rd. Budapest

Cash time on the spot:

Monday to Friday 10 a.m. 6 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. 7 p.m.

Sunday: 10 a.m. 6 p.m.

Shows on:

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 3 p.m.

Saturday: 11 a.m. , 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Sunday: 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Update and snaps Aggie Reiter

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