The Honvéd Male Choir and Fidelio have come out with a real surprise for Liszt-fans in the bicentennial year. The unfinished St Stanislaus Oratorio, which is considered as one of Liszt’s last opuses, and which has been available almost exclusively for researchers until now, has been published on CD and was premiered in a magnificent concert on 26 June. Read more...

A gala concert hosted by Moscow's Kremlin Palace was held to mark the 200th birth anniversary of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt on 17 June. Read more...

Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal will present its performance Sweet Mambo in Budapest's National Theatre on Tuesday night, as a key cultural programme of the Hungarian EU presidency. Read more...

Museums all over Hungary will keep their doors open for a night of exhibitions, guided tours and special events on two consecutive Saturdays: on June 18 outside Budapest and on June 24 in Budapest. Read more...

A selection from the china collections of Muzej Marton, Croatia's first private museum, will be displayed in the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, opening on June 16 as part of the cultural programmes of the Hungarian EU Presidency. Read more...

The Hungarian composer and pianist Gyorgy Szabados, who has been called the father of Hungarian free jazz, died late Friday, aged 71, his family told MTI. Read more...

In honour of the Liszt Year, Concerto Budapest gave an exclusive concert, featuring the violin player genius Maxim Fedotov and the old master of conductors Krzysztof Penderecki on 4 June in the Italian Institute. Check out the photo gallery of the concert! Read more...

In the Musica Sacra series, the Choir of the National Széchényi Library with Mária Eckhardt conductor and Péter Sirák on organ performed one of Liszt's Trident rite masses, composed in 1865, Missa choralis, organo concitente. Check out the photos of the concert! Read more...

Year after year, the Budapest Wagner Days, staged for the first time in 2006, add a new semi-staged opera production to their impressive repertoire. Read more...

XVI Benedict the Pope greeted the audience in Hungarian after the National Philharmony Orchestra’s and Choir’s concert in the Vatican on 27 May, while President of Hungary Pál Schmitt opened the event in Italian. The Head of Church, who greatly appreciates music, called Franz Liszt ”a truly European artist”. Read more...

The exhibition, currently to be seen at the Riga Art Space, was created within the framework of the project “Recuperating the Invisible Past”. Read more...

Financing issues in the past years and future strategies were discussed at a conference of the Performing Arts Employers Associations League Europe (Pearle) in Budapest on Friday and Saturday, a senior Hungarian official told MTI. Read more...

A concert, an exhibition and a seminar with distinguished guests were held in Los Angeles this weekend to mark the birth bicentenary of Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt, the local Hungarian consulate-general told MTI on Sunday. Read more...

The latest piece directed and co-written by the acclaimed Hungarian film director, Kornél Mundruczó - after Brussles, LisbonEssen, Rotterdamse Schouwburg and Bordeaux - arrives in Budapest. Read more...

A concert is to take place in Godollo Palace -- the main venue of the Hungarian EU presidency events -- to raise money for a kindergarten to be built in the tsunami-hit area in Japan. Read more...

Hungary's MuzeumCafe, a professional journal for museums, has won a bronze medal in the magazine category at this year's European Design Awards, MTI learnt from an announcement. Read more...

The first Sunday of May is the beginning of the Liszt Year’s sacred music series. We ask Tamás Bubnó, artistic director of the programme about the works, their characteristics and about Liszt’s sacred musical compositions. Read more...

Two Hungarian artists - conductor Laszlo Kovacs and pianist Jeno Jando - will perform at a concert by the Qatar Symphony Orchestra in the Doha Opera House on Tuesday. Read more...

An exhibition of photo portraits by Tamas Schild, a Hungarian Roma artist, opened at the European Parliament building in Brussels on Tuesday. Read more...

An evening of dance and music in three parts at Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest. Read more...

Back from their Transsylvanian tour the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble offer the blend of the centuries' old tradition and the modern times. Read more...

Venezuelan pianist, Andres Carciente will play in the Béla Bartók Memorial House on May 29. Read more...

On 30 April and 13 May broadcasts the Duna Television a one-hour programme with the opera highlights of 2010. Read more...

April 2nd Palace of Arts - Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, 7.30 p.m. Read more...

Pianist Tamas Erdi will give a charity concert playing works by Liszt and Chopin as part of a Hungarian festival to be held in Skopje from Thursday to Sunday. Read more...

"Create memories for yourself!" - this famous Liszt saying brings a personal touch to the allday Liszt-marathon, as the event organised by Hungarofest KLASSZ Music Office - following the pattern of the highly successful Haydn marathon held in 2009 - once again invites the younger generations to gain memories and experiences, and of course to develop a taste for classical music. Read more...

A bust of Franz Liszt was unveiled in Beijing's National Centre for Performing Arts on Saturday evening to mark the birth bicentenary of the great Hungarian composer. Read more...

Dianne Reeves is one of the greatest living jazz singers of our time. Read more...

The Sziget Festival, one of Europe's most popular outdoor musical and cultural events, will focus on presenting the cultural diversity of Central Europe this year, chief organiser Karoly Gerendai said on Thursday. Read more...

The symbolic meaning of dreams has been known since the dawn of history. In the archaic myths of peoples dreams represent reality. Read more...