The festival started at the India International Art Centre gallery with the opening of an exhibition of works by Elisabeth Sass Brunner and her daughter Elisabeth Brunner, who left Hungary in 1929 and travelled around the world, visiting India, Japan, America and Britain. Indian MP Kapila Vatsyayan opened the exhibition. Works by Erkel, as well as the Liszt Bartók and Imre Kálmán, were performed by the soprano Situ Singh-Buehler, the tenor Yanis Benabdallah and the pianist Maroun Benabdallah. They were joined by the Capital City Minstrels Chorus conducted by Gabriella Boda-Rechner.
