APRÓBETŰS RÉSZEK - Kovács András Péter önálló estje, előzenekar: Szabó Balázs Máté

Bayadere is a ballet imbued with an idealized exoticism both in the melodramatic plot and in the overall aesthetics. But he expresses - in his most famous scene The Kingdom of Shadows - a vision that goes beyond the context and that opens up to a landscape of pure movement, abstract and lucid in its formal simplicity.

The Vujicsics Ensemble, which plays South-Slavic music, has maintained the same line-up ever since their formation 50 years ago.

The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble's nativity programme counts down to the night of the birth of Jesus, with scenes that are sometimes comic and other times heart-warming.