On March 14, after 10 years of renovation took place the opening ceremony of the renovated Vigadó. After all, among other things, the building is waiting for the audience with Imre Makovecz and Imre Schrammel exhibitions, and various programs of the Budapest Spring Festival.
150 years after the completion of the building designed by Frigyes Feszl, nearly 34 years after the last major renovation was completed, one jewel of Budapest re-opened its doors with a grand gala concert. Vigadó is a unique building of the Banks of the Danube which is part of the UNESCO World Heritage. The restoration combined the original appearance with modern technological implementation.
Vigadó, the most beautiful, unique architectural masterpiece of the Hungarian Romanticism was once the center of Hungarian art scene, where such renowned artist came up on stage like Bartók, Debussy, Liszt, Ravel and Strauss. This spring the new building occupies its worthy place on cultural palette of Budapest as the headquarters of the Hungarian contemporary art. The revamped building has six floors, where a concert hall, stage theater, contemporary exhibition spaces, library and conference room are both can be found. With these, a unique building was born with lot of functions.
After the opening several concerts and exhibitions take place already. The building restored to the original magnificence is one scene of the Budapest Spring Festival with programs such as the concert of Alison Balsom (trumpet) and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Yuma Aoki’s piano recital, Maxim Rysanov’s viola recital, The Hilliard Ensemble or the Hungarian Sketches: the concert of the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda, in which the most diverse forms of love of the country will be revealed as we fly over the musical landscape of Hungary.
Besides, the all-new fifth-sixth floor exhibition spaces hosting the Imre Makovecz exhibition, who was a Hungarian architect, one of the most prominent proponents of organic architecture, which means that his buildings attempt to work with the natural surroundings rather than triumph over them. Another large-scale exhibition will be held in the Vigadó Gallery: the Imre Schrammel’s oeuvre-exhibition, who is a ceramic artist, started the Hungarian symposium movement. He is known for he shapes his specific figures with such extraordinary inner strength, that his works almost come to life.
If you need more information about the programs or are interested in the restoration images, please visit http://vigado.hu/.
