Budapest Summer Festival

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The BudaFest Summer Music Festival is a major annual event that is now in sixteenth year, this year's programme features 25 outstanding concerts staged during the months of July.

With venues in the Hungarian State Opera House, the Castle District of Buda and St. Stephen's Square, Pest, the BudaFest Summer Music Festival has grown into one of Budapest's most successful cultural events and one of Europo's most eagerly anticipated summer festivals. Each year the organizers aim to put together a programme of the highest standard that will appeal to both local and visiting audiences alike. Klezmer, ragtime and opera enthusiasts will be able to enjoy summer evening concerts in the attractive Dominican Courtyard, whilst in St. Stephen's Square against the incomparable backdrop of the Basilica there will be larger scale concerts, that this year will include an even wider range of music than the symphony concerts that have been the tradition to date. Stars of opera and ballet will performing in the glittering Hungarian State Opera House.

Program Dominikanerhof:
July 4, rain day: July 5 Operetta Gala
July 6, rain day: July 8 Operetta Gala
July 10, rain day: July 11Concert of the Budapest Klezmer Band
July 12, rain day: July 13 Flamenco Night with Andrea Lippai
July 17, rain day: July 18 Concert of the Budapest Klezmer Band
July 19, rain day: July 20 Concert of the Budapest Ragtime Band
July 22, rain day: July 24 Primas Kings — Concert of the Chamber Orchestra of the '100‐Member' Gipsy Orchestra
July 23, rain day: July 24 Primas Kings — Concert of the Chamber Orchestra of the '100‐Member' Gipsy Orchestra
July 26, rain day: July 29 Handel: Rinaldo — opera in 2 acts with marionettes
July 27, rain day: July 29 Handel: Rinaldo — opera in 2 acts with marionettes

Program St. Stephan's Square:

July 5, rain day: July 6 Concert — Symphonic Orchestra Miskolc Condoctor: Laszlo KOVACS
July 12, rain day: July 3 Concert of the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra, Conductor: John CLINTON, Soloist: Irvin L. WAGNER
July 19, rain day: July 20 Concert — Symphonic Orchestra Debrecen Conductor: Balazs KOCSAR
July 26, rain day: July 27 Concert — Symphonic Orchestra Pannon Conductor: Zsolt HAMAR