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Open-Air Festival on Margaret Island
Located adjacent to the Water Tower landmark, the Open-Air Theatre on Margaret Island is the sole permanent outdoor stage in Hungary, and is able to accommodate close to 3,000 spectators. The theatre, which boasts unique capabilities, has been the venue for operettas, classical ballet performances, operas and, in recent decades, rock operas and musicals. In addition to well-known Hungarian singers and musicians, numerous world-famous bands and other performers give concerts here each year.
Performance highlights at the Margaret Island Open-Air Theatre:
Jubilee concert of the 25-year old 100-Member Gypsy Orchestra: “MY FOLLOWER IS BEFORE ME”
Date of performance: 8.30 p.m., 3 July (Saturday) 2010
The master leaders of the 25-year old orchestra would like to introduce special young talents during the jubilee concert, and Lajos Boross, the honorary leader, will return to lead the orchestra for this concert only.
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Mussorgsky: BORIS GODUNOV (Slavic opera) - PREMIERE
Dates of performances: 8.30 p.m., 24 July (Saturday) and 30 July (Friday) 2010
The Open-Air Theatre will stage the most popular opera in the Slavic opera repertoire with the cooperation of the Csokonai Theatre from Debrecen, supported by the guest soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The sweeping and streaming story of the drama follows the adventures of the tsar, who was elevated to the throne at his own will, and whose destiny was he himself: his own conscience.
Leading roles: Mihail Kazakov, Alekszandr Naumenko and the artists of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Directed by: Attila Vidnyánszky
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Nikola Parov – Gábor Mihályi: THE LEGEND OF THE SUN, jubilee performance of the 10-year old dance show
Date of performance: 8 p.m. 21 August (Saturday) 2010
The 100th jubilee performance, after ten years of continuous success, with more than fifty dancers! The choreographer, Gábor Mihályi, has combined the most dynamic and sweeping motifs of Hungarian folk music and put them on stage with the collaboration of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble. The Legend of the Sun is a creative performance with a 21st century spirit that visualises – through the special instruments of art – the cult of the Sun, its role and place in our lives, the course of its celestial path and its connection to the course and turning points of human life.
The dance shows on the Margaret Island will be performed in original language or with English subtitles.
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St Margaret ruins, Interactive Tale Stage:
As part of the Budapest Summer Festival, the interactive child programme on Saturday mornings, which focuses on the weekend, and the renaissance programme on Sunday morning, in which children and youthful adults can actively take part, have been popular extra programmes, complementing the great evening performances, for several years. The events are organised near the historic sites among the greenery of nature.
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Further information:
Szabad Tér Színház Nonprofit Kft.
1122 Budapest, Városmajor
Tel: +36 1 375 59 22
Fax:+36 1 356 09 98
E-mail: igazgatosag@szabadter.hu
Open-Air Stage of Margaret Island
1138 Budapest, Margaret Island
Ticket information and sale (May-August): +36 1 340 41 96
www.szabadter.hu
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Ticket information and sale (May - August): +36 1 340 41 96
20% discount with the Budapest Card!
Or personally at the city centre Tourist Information Offices in Budapest:
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Tourinform Deák square Cím: Sütő street 2. (at Deák square) Opening hours: 8-20 h every day Tel: +36 1 438 80 80 |
Tourinform Liszt Ferenc square Cím: Andrássy út 47. (at the Oktogon) Opening hours: 12 – 20 h every day Tel: +36 1 322 40 98 |
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Margaret Island in a nutshell:
Margaret Island is the most beautiful park in the Hungarian capital. Margaret, the Hungarian princess, who was later canonised, used to live here in the nunnery, which is in ruins today. UNESCO declared the island’s Water Tower, in which exhibitions are organised, as a protected building. The open-air stage on the island hosts opera and ballet performances in the summer, when the music fountain is also in operation and one can have a pleasant walk under the century-old trees. One can enter the island only by bus or bicycle or on foot. A swimming pool, a beach, two hotels and restaurants can also be found on the island.
Watch our short film about Margaret Island!
Tips:
Visiting the island by boat
Come to the island by boat! There are ship transfers before and after theatre performances departing from two piers on the Pest side (Jászai Mari Square and Dráva Street) and one pier on the Buda side (Szilágyi Dezső Square), taking passengers to the Margaret Island Grand Hotel or Vadaspark station. Paved paths lead from both stops to the Margaret Island Open-Air Theatre. In addition, there are sightseeing boats and boats offering buffet dinner services as well! www.szabadter.hu
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Bike Carriage on the island
Everything is green on the Margaret Island, so cars are not allowed to enter. You can also ride on the Bike Carriages, which is very entertaining and a pleasant experience before the concert. www.bringohinto.hu
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Wellness suggestion
Before the concert, surprise your girlfriend or boyfriend and refresh yourselves in the wellness section of the Hotel Danubius Health Spa Resort Margitsziget! Here you can enjoy swimming pools, thermal baths, experience pools, and a refreshing massage as well!
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Experience of others:
"The Palatinus Lido became lot better in the past 30-35 years. The trees have grown, it is a place where you may find more nature than before. Surf bath, ping-pong tables, slippery football ground, body building tent. Corncobs, ice cream, beer without limit, wave pool, thermal. If you like it is busy, if you like it is peaceful. Hey-ho how I would enjoy the lido.. "
Magdi from Budapest
"The best solution on a hot summer day is to head to the pools of Margaret Island. And if you are there, drink a wine and soda mix (fröccs) in one of the outdoor bars."
Andrea and Mila from Slovakia
"I like to walk aronnd the city in summer, on the Danube bend, the Buda Castle and the Margaret Island. I enjoy being outside till late at night and the floodlit buildings are just beautiful.
Lilla from Budapest
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