The festival will open with a concert by the Philharmonia Hungarica, whose members left Hungary during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The orchestra will perform after a ten-year hiatus under the baton of Tamás Vásáry.
Also on the programme are concerts by the world music singer Bea Palya together with the Israeli marimba master Asaf Roth, as well as by the violin virtuoso Roby Lakatos.
Art works by Jószef Bartha from Romania, Roland Farkas from Slovakia and Bálint Szombathy from Serbia will be shown in an exhibition entitled NO Pass.
On the theatre programme are performances by the Nagy József Regional Creative Workshop of Kanjiza, Serbia, the Jókai Theatre of Komárom, Hungary, and the State Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, Romania. The Tamási Theatre of Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania, will show its first premiere at the festival: Moliere's The Misanthrope, directed by László Bocsárdi.
The Hungarian Opera of Cluj will present Verdi's A Masked Ball directed by Tamás Ascher. Ascher, who heads the Katona Theatre in Budapest, has worked abroad before, but never directed a production by Hungarian minorities.
The Budapest Operetta Theatre and the Bucharest National Operetta Theatre will present a dual-language production of Gérard Presgurvic's musical Romeo and Juliet, directed by Miklós Gábor Kerényi.
Budapest's well-known Fészek Arts Club will be the centre for events on the festival programme.
For more information, see the festival home page
