Website: http://www.festivalcity.hu/

Date: March 19 to April 5, 2010
Country: Hungary


The Budapest Spring Festival has an extensive programme that includes symphony orchestra concerts, opera and ballet performances. This year, the spotlight will be on Evelyn Glennie, the renowned percussionist mentioned in our music notes; Glennie and the Concerto Budapest will play Vivaldi’s Concerto for soprano flute in C major. English soprano Emma Kirkby will join Florilegium to deliver works of Pergolesi. In addition, the Orchestra and Chorus of the Hungarian State Opera House, conducted by János Kovács, will present Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier.