The series started with a concert of works by Attila Demény. The programme included pieces written for voice, violin and marimba; songs based on the poems of Géza Szőcs; and a screening of a film of the opera The Last Cherry Stone, with a libretto by Aladár Lászlóffy based on a short story by István Örkény.
The centre also opened an exhibition of paintings by László Sipos, Tibor Kádár and István Ughy. The exhibition will later travel to Syktyvkar, capital of the Komi Republic, and to Saint Petersburg.
The folk band Tarisznyás will perform in Moscow, as well as in Syktyvkar, Storozhevsk, and Saransk, the capital of the Republic of Mordovia.
A Hungarian literary day will be held in Kortkeros, in the Komi Republic, on November 1.
In the second half of November, the Concordia string quartet will play concerts at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Moscow, at a monument complex in the capital, and at the Semyakin Foundation in Saint Petersburg.
Writers, scientists and important public figures from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and Finno-Ugric areas of Russia, will have a roundtable talk on December 2. The writer Péter Egyed will present his book 23 Bubbles - The Ballad of Kursk together with the book's translator Maya Cesarskaya on December 3.
The Hungarian Cultural Centre will celebrate the city of Cluj-Napoca in February and March. It will feature screenings of films by Gyula Gulyás and Réka Kincses, and the actress Márta Bálint will perform a monodrama by Anna Scarlat. The events will wind up with a presentation of István Szilágyi's novel Stone Falling in Ebbing Well.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: opera-vilag.hu
