Liszt, Italian culture in focus at Budapest Spring Festival

Budapest (MTI) – The oeuvre of Hungarian composer-pianist Franz Liszt and Italian culture will be in focus at this year’s Budapest Spring Festival between April 10 and 26, the organisers said.

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The country’s largest cultural festival will feature in a cross-over production Italian visual director Paolo Micciche’s show DanteXperience on April 24 in the Palace of Arts, combining Liszt’s monumental Dante Symphony with Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, a cornerstone of European culture.

Italian culture is in the festival’s focus on the occasion that Dante was born 750 years ago.

Related programmes include a performance by renowned baritone Leo Nucci reciting Verdi’s most popular arias. His contemporary, cellist phenomenon Mario Brunello will perform works by Haydn.

Hungary’s Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra will perform Italian composer Nino Rota’s piece for cello.

Naples’ Teatro di San Carlo, the world’s oldest opera house, will show Verdi’s three-act opera Luisa Miller with Elena Mosuc in the title role.

The festival this year will feature in other programmes international starts such as Russian pianist-conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy and Irish singer Sinead O’Connor along with top Hungarian performers such as pianist Dezso Ranki and saxophone player Mihaly Dresch.

The two-week event will offer 170 programmes featuring classical, jazz and world music, theatre, dance and exhibition events.

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