Spring Festival 2011
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Many of Budapest's fine buildings and open spaces provide venues for the varied events of the Spring Festival (18.03-03.04.2011).
First held in 1981, the Budapest Spring Festival is the largest annual cultural event in Hungary. It boasts orchestral and chamber concerts, jazz, contemporary dance, film screenings and much more in 200 events at a multitude of venues throughout the city. The festival showcases some of the finest Hungarian performers, composers and artists as well as international talent.
Some example from the colourful program of the festival:
Orchestral concerts - Wiener Symphoniker (21st March)
- Max Raabe & Palast Orchester (26th, 27th March)
- Beethoven Evening (31st March)
- Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (2nd April)
Opera - Donizetti: Don Pasquale (19th and 26th March)
- Verdi: Macbeth (22nd March)
- Verdi: Il Trovatore (1st April)
Special - David Garrett (28th March)
Folk music - The 100-Member Gypsy Orchestra (26th March)
Dance - The Antoniy Gades Company - Carmen (29th, 30th and 31st March)
- Carlos Saura - Flamenco Today
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