BUDAPEST, Hungary — The grand, gilded Hungarian State Opera House here is where Brahms once heard Mahler conduct Mozart. It’s where Bartok’s still-shocking “Bluebeard’s Castle” had its ...

Central Pest's Hungarian State Opera House has been an institution in Budapest since its opening in 1884. Featuring a neo-Renaissance style, the opera house holds more than 1,200 seats and has a ...

Whatever you do in Budapest, do not miss its opera house—even though it annoyed the heck out of Emperor Franz Josef. And Michael Jackson, the well-known world traveler, might have thought he ...

Among the highlights of the programme are powerhouse dance company Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as well as the Budapest Festival Orchestra, led by conductor Iván Fischer, in residence at the ...