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ABBA – The Show, in Budapest 2010

Posted on November 14, 2008July 31, 2017 by Budapest Guide

The world’s biggest Abba show is on a world tour again. In 2009 they gained some much interest in Hungary that the first show became sold out in days and another Budapest concert had to be booked. Thanks to the unbelieveable succes Abba-The Show comes back to Hungary in 2010 too. Since we can’t travel back in time to see Abba you should check out the group which truely brings back the spirit of Abba on stage. Now not only in Budapest but in Debrecen too. The traveling circus that comes with 6 trucks and with a crew of fifty after playing Wembley and the Royal Albert Hall plays Sportaréna again in Budapest and Főnix Hall in Debrecen the first time. There’s no doubt that these shows are going to be the most promising shows of the carnival season.

ABBA – THE SHOW
Tickets: WorldTicketShop
Wednesday, 13. Feb 2010, 19:30
Papp László Budapest Sportaréna, Budapest, Hungary

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Press release:
You’ve seen the rest, now see the best!! There is no doubt that this is the most authentic ABBA show to date, featuring original band members including Ulf Andersson & Roger Palm. It’s like ABBA never left…

ABBA still sell around 2 million records a year – this show packs all their greatest hits into a 2 hour musical extravaganza. ABBA THE SHOW follows the ABBA story from their Eurovision beginnings all the way to major chart success. It is performed by Sweden’s Waterloo, a world renowned group who bring ABBA to life, together with The National Symphony Orchestra of London conducted by Matthew Freeman.

ABBA THE SHOW has had phenomenal success around the globe reaching audiences in India,
Spain and the USA, climaxing with a sold-out performance at the famous Hollywood
The show kicks off at the tail end of the 60s when Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida meet to play
together for the very first time. Throughout the course of the production, the audience is led on a
magical journey through the rise and rise of ABBA. Featuring classic songs such as Waterloo,
SOS, Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Money Money Money, Knowing Me Knowing You and
many more, this promises to be the must-see event of 2010.

ABBA THE SHOW is:
Waterloo – THE best ABBA band ever

Statements from “The Official International ABBA Fan Club”

Absolutely the best ABBA since ABBA
It truly feels like ABBA is still Alive
It truly feels like ABBA lives on
It truly feels like you are looking at ABBA
It truly feels like you are hearing ABBA
The true ABBA experience
The one and only ABBA since ABBA
We sure recommend this show to everyone else in the future
ABBA – THE SHOW, so much better than Björn Again

The Press wrote:
•Brilliant ABBA Show
•ABBA Clones
•Mama Mia, ABBA is still alive
•I hope the original four see the show and become proud. They could hardly have done it better themselves

A Sure Success in European Concert Halls and Arenas
ABBA is still selling about 2 million records a year. ABBA is and will always be a success.
The same goes for the big production ’ABBA – The Show’ about ABBA’s musical story performed by the Swedish cover band Waterloo together with The National Symphony Orchestra of London, conductor Matthew Freeman and starring former original bandmembers of ABBA.

Praised by the Critics
Seen and praised by more than 1,000,000 of people in the world who have already taken the trip from 1969 to 1981with the story of ABBA and their greatest hits played live by a band which does not only sound like ABBA but also resembles them, spiced with the sound of a 16-piece symphony orchestra and conducted by Matthew Freeman. The experience of one of the greatest pop bands of all times is complete.

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Three bridges in one picture

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Budapest Guide

This picture was made a couple of weeks ago, and here you can see three bridges. The first one is the Margaret Bridge, followed by the Margaret Island. Then comes the Arpad Bridge, and then comes the newcomer, the Megyeri Bridge. To see it you need to open the picture in big resolution (press the picture to do so), and then you can see in the background of the picture the Megyeri bridge, trying to lead people around Budapest without having to enter the inner city.

It has always been so that if you want to go from east to west or south to north in Hungary, you have to drive through the center of Budapest. To change this (which we would all be happy about) they are trying to build a new highway called the M0 that will lead the traffic around Budapest instead of into Budapest. We are still not completely there, but we are getting closer!

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Budapest museums in focus

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Budapest Guide

We would like our page to contain information useful for people coming to Budapest, and som expats stuck in Budapest, and that is why we have decided to include information about museums as well at our page. Starting today we will add information about museums in Budapest, and if capacity allows us to, we will also visit the temporary exhibitions to be found in the different museums around, and review them! Sounds good, doesn´t it?

So far we have added a page in general about museums in Budapest, and we just added a page about one of our favorite museums in Budapest as well; the Museum of Fine Arts.

More museums, information, news and pictures will come later!

Budapest Zoo to expand

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Budapest Guide

Last week we finally expanded our register of activities in Budapest with the circus and the amusement park in Budapest. Yesterday then I read the news that the amusement park in Budapest is going to move in 2009, but it in still not clear to where. Budapest Zoo will take over the area now used by the amusement park, and though the very “old” and “unomveable” attractions will remain, everything else will be removed to the new location of the funpark.

But with some attractions remaining the zoo will became an even greater hit for the families, and if it is now possible to use 2-3 hours there without a problem… what will the future bring?

By the way… do you know what can be seen on the picture on the right? That is the “Great Rock” from the Budapest Zoo, an artifical rock, around 100 years old!

Quantum of Solace in Budapest

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Budapest Guide

While the newest James Bond film Quantum of Solace has had its premiere in several nations around the world already, it will reach the cinemas in Hungary this Wednesday (12 November). The film that has been seen by crowds already can be seen in all cinemas in Hungary, but watch out; if you do not want to hear Daniel Craig speak in Hungarian you should go to a cinema showing it with subtitles, instead of synchronized speaking. WestEnd (Palace Cinemas) shows the film only with syncronization, but it you go to Mom Park they will show it with english speaking and hungarian subtitles (but watch out… they will show it on three screens, but only one of them shows it with subtitles).

If you want to see a nicer film than James Bond you can also see High School Musical 3 and Madagascar 2 in the Hungarian cinemas in these days. But watch out with the language problems here as well (High School Musical is normally dubbed, but the singing remains in the original language).

To read more about the cinemas in Budapest, go here!

2008 Jubilee Concert Of The 100-Member Gipsy Orchestra

Posted on November 11, 2008May 3, 2018 by Budapest Guide

If you like gispy music, or if you are just looking for something to do on the 30 December, then this might be a good option. For the 11th time this concert is arranged in the Budapest Congress & World Trade Center. The visitors are promised that they will hear music from Offenbach, Rossini, Khachaturian, Liszt, Strauss as well as wonderful examples of folk music and spectacular folk-show elements.

Program:
18.00 Wine tasting and folk dance show
19.00 Concert, part 1
20.20 Concert part 2

Concert tickets:
Tickets – with dinner: Stalls 29 800 HUF
Tickets – concert and wine tasting: Gallery, rows 1-4
Tickets – concert and wine tasting: Gallery, rows 5-9 16 500, 14 500HUF

Further information and ticket sales:
V.I.P. Arts Management: 13-15 Hajós street, Budapest, H-1065
Phone/fax: +36-1-332-4816, +36-1-302-4290
[email protected]
www.viparts.hu

New Years Eve Opera Gala And Ball

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Budapest Guide

We have already written about the New Years concert of the London Philharmonic Orchestra taking place on the first of January, 2009. But, if you are looking for an event on the 31st of December this might be the one. If you want to finish the year in beautiful surroundings and with elite company, the Hungarian State Opera might be the place. The famous Gundel Restaurant will serve the food!

Program of the Gala Night:
20.00 Welcoming of guests in the aula with a welcome cocktail
20.30 Parts of the popular operetta of Johann Strauss, the Bat
21.30 GUNDEL dinner
Served on the stage, banquet halls and galleries of the Hungarian State Opera,
23.00 Performance by the popular Erox Martini
24.00 National Anthem
Champagne
Opening dance by professional dancers
Ball until early morning

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Hungarian food in McDonalds

Posted on November 8, 2008December 8, 2022 by Budapest Guide

McDonalds just started their new campaign where they serve “Hungarian” food in their restaurants. On the menu you can find Paprica Chicken hamburger, French toast (Bundás kenyér), Scone (lángos), Rissole (fasírt), Golden Dumplings and Porksandwich with horseradish. We somehow managed to drop by a McDonalds yesterday evening and tasted the Paprica Chicken Burger and the Golden Dumplings. I had great expectations, especially as Golden Dumplings is among my favorite desserts in Hungary.

Maybe you were hoping that you can skip the Hungarian restaurants as of now to eat in McDonalds… I would not do so! The two things that we tasted were not at all good, and worst of them was the Paprica Chicken burger. The dressing, or whatever was supposed to give the burger paprica taste rather destroyed it all. The Golden Dumplings tasted a little bit better, but still… it is not often I have eaten so bad dumplings. Today I read a review chef.hu were they mostly agreed with us concerning the two things we ate, but they were slightly more positive to the Rissole and the Porksandwich, so maybe we will have to try them later!

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Paris of the east = Budapest?

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Budapest Guide

I have often heard people speaking of Budapest as the Paris of the east. It sounds really nice, and I must admit, that Budapest is a really beautiful city, just as Paris. Having some seconds today I just typed in on google “Paris of the east”, curious to see what it would show me. To my great surprise there are many “Parises” of the east. Tehran, Prague, Shanghai, Bucharest and Istanbul were some of the cities mentioned, and it seemd to me as if Bucharest was the most “popular” one with the title “Paris of the east.”

There are probably many cities fighting for the title, but for many tourists coming to Eastern-Europe the question is not whether to go to Budapest or Shanghai, or Budapest or Istanbul, but rather if they should go to Budapest or Prague. As editor of this page, and as a person who loves Budapest, I would for sure recommend Budapest, but if you have time, I would visit both Budapest and Prague. After that you can make up your own oppinion what city has most right to the title “Paris of the East”; Budapest or Prague.

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New Years concert of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Posted on November 5, 2008July 25, 2016 by Budapest Guide

With the aim of starting a new tradition, the Palace of Arts decided to celebrate the new year of 20008 not by the usual, light music played in other places but with the exquisite oratory of Joseph Haydn which involves the magic of the creation and which has been a constant favourite with audiences for 210 years.

The orchestra will be led by Ádám Fischer, who is the most experienced and most inventive representative of the composer’s music. The orchestra is the famous London Philharmonic Orchestra founded by Sir Thomas Beecham, accompanied by the London Philharmonic Choir. The invitation of the London orchestras and choir is not a coincidence: Haydn composed the Creation in London.

The large-scale composition took Haydn two years to complete; it was first shown in Vienna at the end of April 1798. It meant him a huge artistic acknowledgement and financial success. “Since then the Creation has become one of the emblematic masterpieces of European music, an icon. But the respect that surrounds the composition is not the only reason for gaining a place amongst the “compulsory” pieces – such as the passions of Bach, oratorio of Handel and the Missa solemnise of Beethoven of the repertoires in the music life of the world. We actually need the Creation. We need somebody to show us the beauties of the world and convey the message that living on Earth is a good thing.” (András Batta)

Ticket prices: 4000.- 6300.- 8300.- 9900.- HUF.
You can get hold of tickets from Interticket (be aware: the page is hard to use, and the english is not too good)
Source: Budapestinfo.hu

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