HUNGARIAN MUSIC

BÉLA BARTÓK

Béla Bartók was born 125 years ago.

Bluebeard’s Castle

The Bluebeard’s Castle is a one-act opera. According to the story the duke brought a new wife: Judit to his home. He walked her around in his castle .

In the gloomy, dreary, damp walls there were seven doors. At the request of Judit, the duke opened the first five doors, but Judit driven by the desire wanted to know the past of her husband. She had to find her destiny behind the seventh door, just as it happened to all the previous wives of the Bluebeard.

Cantata Profana

Among his vocal compositions is the Cantata profana.

This is the tale of the transformation of nine boys – hunting in the forest - to magic deers seeking the cleanness, fresh atmosphere of nature, by escaping from society.

The first Hungarian rock opera is Stephen, the king

János Bródy - librettist

Levente Szörényi - composer

The most famous Hungarian music group is NOX

The team is step by step more successful in mixing the traditional Hungarian folk music elements with those of the world music. The biggest success is they took part Eurovision Festival, and they

were 12.

Some of festivals in Hungary

VOLT fest.-Sopron

SZIGET fest.-Budapest

sziget.hu

Budapest Parade

www.volt.hu

www.budapestparade.hu

Valley of Arts-Kapolcs

Budapest Spring Festival

www.festivalcity.hu/btf2006

kapolcs.szinhaz.hu