Budapest Summer Festival, June-July-August, 2012.

The Budapest Summer Festival offers a wide range of cultural programs for the summer months. The festival program includes concerts, musicals, dance shows, theatrical performances for children and adults, comedies on three venues:

• Open-Air Theater in Városmajor
• the Open-Air Theaters on Margaret Island (trams 4 and 6, Margitsziget stop) and
• the Water Tower on Margaret Island

Városmajor Open-Air Theater 

(Városmajori Szabadtéri Színpad, 1122 Budapest
Városmajor 6835/17 hrsz., district XII.,)
Getting there: tram 6 or M2 (red) metro, Széll Kálmán tér stop - a few minutes walk from there
Ticket prices: 2 300 HUF, 2900 HUF, 3 500 HUF
Ticket purchase: Szabadtér Színház Jegyiroda (Open Air Theatre Ticket Office)
(1065 Bp., Nagymező u. 68., opening hours: Monday-Friday: 9.00-17.00)
The Városmajor Open-Air Theater is located in a lovely park in Buda. It can seat 1000 people. Musicals, prose, performances for children will be staged from 8th June till 8th September 2012.
Performances start at 20.00. Children programs start at 10.30 each Sunday.

The Open-Air Stage in Városmajor, Buda, district XII.

Margaret Island Open-Air Theater

Margitszigeti Szabadtéri Színpad 
Getting there: tram 4 and 6 Margitsziget lejáró stop or on a cruise boat on the Danube -ports from where cruise boats to Margisziget depart:

• Vígadó tér
• Batthyány tér
• Dráva utca

Boats arrive to the pier at the Open-Air Theater and Water Tower Margaret Island
Price of the boat transfer: 1 000 HUF, you can buy a one-way ticket to get back from Margaret Island: it costs 500 HUF

Margaret Island Theater Boat Schedule June-July 2012
Departures
Vígadó tér	19.15
Batthyány tér	19.25
Dráva utca	19.45
Margaret Island Open-Air Theater & Water Tower	20.00

Boats return back after 20 minutes of the end of each performance.

Ticket prices: 3900 HUF, 4900HUF, 5900 HUF, 6900 HUF, 8400 HUF, 12000 HUF
Ticket purchase: Szabadtér Színház Jegyiroda (Open Air Theatre Ticket Office)
(1065 Bp., Nagymező u. 68., opening hours: Monday-Friday: 9.00-17.00)
The 3000-seat open-air stage is at the recently renovated Water Tower (Víztorony) on Margaret Island. The theater has been hosted classical opera and ballet pieces, as well as rock operas and musicals in recent years.
Performances start

The Open-Air Theater on Margaret Island at the Water Tower

Children's Stage - Budapest Summer Festival Margaret Island

The children's stage is opposite the entrance of the Open-Air Theater on Margaret Island, surrounded by three sycamore trees. Puppet shows, children stories welcome the youngest ones as well as grown-ups who are open to playful entertainment.
Tickets: children performances are FREE.
Performances start at 10.30 each Saturday from 16th June till 25th August

Water Tower (Víztorony) Margaret Island

The refurbished 101-year old Water Tower reopened in May 2012. It is alook-out tower as well as regularly hosts exhibitions. The floodlighted tower provides an ideal background for the Jazzy Towerprogram (light music concerts) on warm summer nights. The Jazzy Tower concerts start at 21.00 every Saturday from 2nd June till 1st September.

St. Margaret Monastery Ruins

The Renaissance mornings at the ruins of the St. Margaret Monastery are freeto enjoy every Sunday from 10.30 from 17th June till 26th August.

Remains of the St. Margaret Monastery

Budapest Summer Festival programs: see the program schedule of the festival on the official site of the event.