25.02.2026 19:00

Carnival of the Animals – Reimagined

Ajka, Nagy László Városi Művelődési Központ és Könyvtár

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Prices

4 400 HUF

Tickets will be available from October 12, 2025.

Tickets can be purchased at the box office of the László Nagy City Cultural Centre and Library (8400 Ajka, Szabadság Square 13, +36 88 210 252), as well as online at www.jegymester.hu.

Ticket discounts:

We offer a 10% discount for students and pensioners.

Filharmonia Hungary season ticket holders can purchase tickets with a 20% discount by showing their season tickets! The discount can be applied to one ticket per concert per subscription.

Individual discounts cannot be combined!

We reserve the right to change the programmes, dates, venues, and performances, and ticket prices may change accordingly.

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Season Ticket

10 400 Ft

Seat-specific season ticket renewals are available until July 11, 2025, and new season tickets can be purchased until November 12, 2025, the date of the first concert.

We are holding a pre-sale raffle for both our current and new season ticket holders. Those who purchase or renew their season ticket by July 11 and send a photo of it to online@filharmonia.hu by July 30 will be entered into a draw for 30 copies of the Filharmonia Hungary book.

Season tickets are available at the box office of the Nagy László City Cultural Center and Library (13 Szabadság Square, Ajka 8400, +36 88 210 252), as well as online at www.jegymester.hu.

We reserve the right to change the programmes, dates, venues, and performances, and ticket prices may change accordingly.

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Are you in the mood for a bit of lightheartedness, humor, imagination, animals, poetry, and great music all together? If so, don’t miss this concert!

Camille Saint-Saëns depicted the Carnival of the Animals in a multi-movement cycle. But this carnival features more than just animals. The composer even included pianists practicing scales among the animals, and some pieces contain parodies of Offenbach or Wagner. On this evening, it’s not only the French master’s humor and character insight that will entertain the audience, but also poems specially written for the work and performed by János Lackfi himself, references to animal-themed music by other composers, and the virtuosic piano playing of János Balázs. Saint-Saëns originally wrote the music for two pianos, but here it is performed solo, with members of the BDZ A’la cARTe Chamber Ensemble as partners. János Lackfi described the creation of the poems this way: “The incredible behavior and appearance of animals wonderfully reflect the Creator’s inexhaustible playful spirit. … It was a great pleasure to craft charming, witty, and mischievous word compositions about each of Saint-Saëns’ animal characters. To mimic the kangaroo’s power that can crumple an iron bucket, the swan’s beautiful aggression, the vegan lion’s grumpiness, the elephant’s clumsiness in a porcelain shop, the slyness of the slow-motion turtle, the skipping of rushing antelopes, the strange grimaces of aquatic animals, the obsession of competing poultry tearing at worms... And now we’ve added Rimsky-Korsakov’s maddening buzz, Bartók’s fly caught in a web and his dancing, smelly bear, as well as Rameau’s silly hens. After the roaring success at the Cziffra Festival gala concert at the Liszt Academy, we’ve now added a few new twists.”

This concert is a joint production of the Cziffra Festival and Filharmonia Hungary.

ARTISTS:

BDZ A'la cARTe Chamber Orchestra:
Hajnalka Kalla-Tóta - violin
Tünde Bánhegyi - violin
János Markó - viola
Dániel Helecz - cello
Bence Botár - double bass
Dávid Kanyó - flute
Bence Szepesi - clarinet, saxophone

János Balázs - piano
János Lackfi - poem, prose

PROGRAMME:

János Lackfi: Overture (poem)
János Lackfi: The Lion King\\\'s royal procession (poem)
Saint-Säens: The Carnival of the Animals - Overture and The Lion King\\\'s Royal March
János Lackfi: Chicks (poem)
Muszorgszkij - János Balázs: The Dance of the Little Chicks
János Lackfi: Hens and Roosters (poem)
Saint-Säens: The Carnival of the Animals - II. Hens and Roosters
János Lackfi: Hens (poet)
Rameau - JánosBalázs: The Hen
János Lackfi: Antelopes, gazelles, and others... (poet)
Saint-Säens: The Carnival of the Animals - III. Wild donkeys, fast animals
János Lackfi: Turtle
Saint-Säens: The Carnival of the Animals - IV. Turtles
János Lackfi: Rattling (poet)
Korszakov - János Balázs: The Bumblebee
János Lackfi: Elephant
Saint-Säens: The Carnival of the Animals - V. The elephant
János Lackfi: Wobbling baby elephant (poet)
Poulenc - János Balázs: Babar\'s melody
János Lackfi: Kangaroo (poet)
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals - VI. Kangaroos
János Lackfi: Aquarium (poet)
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals - VII. Aquarium
János Lackfi: The trout
Schubert - János Balázs: The trout
János Lackfi: Eared friend (poet)
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals - VIII.
Daquin - János Balázs: Kakukk
János Lackfi: Kakukk (poet)
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals - IX.
János Lackfi: Bird House (poet)
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals - X. Bird House
János Lackfi: Owl (poet)
John Williams - János Balázs: Harry Potter - Hedvig\'s melody
János Lackfi: Pianist (poet)
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals - XI. Pianist
János Lackfi: Fossils
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals - XII.
János Lackfi: Swan (poet)
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals - XIII. The swan
János Lackfi: Final (poet)
Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals - XIV. Final