Two composers, whose professional relationship is “unconventional,” and who are also close friends. They share a house in Kisoroszi and regularly cook together, but when I ask them who is the better cook, their indignant response is that it’s like asking them who is the better composer. At this year’s Bartók Spring, their two one-act operas will be premièred on the same evening.

'He walked like a tiger. Instead of transferring the inactive burden from one position to another, he had some elastic relationship with weight, like an eagle does with air...' Paul Claudel was not the only one at the beginning of the 20th century to speak in superlatives about the greatest dancer of the period, Vaslav Nijinsky.

Life in Italy was probably sweeter in Fellini’s time, and remains sweeter today than anywhere else in the world, and it has provided Hungarian art – itself comparatively very young, barely two hundred years old – with inspiration like no other.

Countless iconic scenes in operas are associated with exotic locales, because almost from the dawn of the genre, librettists realized that audiences had a particular fondness for stories set in distant lands. How come, that the exotic operas of the 21st century have become the most important bridge between the East and the West?

Vaslav Nijinsky was one of the most compelling figures of an explosion in the arts that took place at the beginning of the 20th century. Here are ten interesting facts about Nijinsky’s life and his works, by way of an introduction to an remarkable dance universe.

As is well known, Bach was appointed director of music at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1723, and would serve there until his death in 1750. What is not such common knowledge is that he owed his appointment to a fortunate accident.

It’s a case of apples not falling far from the tree. Several of Péter Gerendás’s children, raised in a large family, have pursued careers in music, becoming well-known figures in both the Hungarian and international scenes; two of them are returning from abroad for the sake of this concert.

The internationally acclaimed dancer returns to her childhood with her new production. More than 'just' another piece of choreography, The Inner Child promises to be a summation of a rich and long journey that began in Szolnok.

The former bassoonist is passionate about the music of his homeland, particularly from the period when George Frideric Handel visited Ireland and premièred his best-known work, Messiah. These interests have led to a career as a highly regarded interpreter of early music.