SZEGED OPEN-AIR THEATRE TICKETS

We would like to inform everyone that the world-famous Szeged Open-Air Theatre will have its season premier performance FERENC LEHÁR : GIPSY LOVE (LIGHT OPERA) in the evening of 4^th July, 2009. Tickets are available for participants of the 41^st EPC Meeting  in limited numbers. To purchase tickets to this fabulous event please register for the conference and click on optional social events.

History of the Open-Air Festival

In the first half of the 20^th century, large-scale open-air events and festivals based on various cultural values and traditions  became increasingly popular in major cultural centres of Europe.

The success of programmes organized abroad urged representative of Hungarian intellectual life to launch similar festivals. One of the first summer theatres to be launched in Hungary was the Szeged Open-Air Festival that has been organized for more than seventy years now.