Important events in 2013/14 and 2015:
25 April 2015 - Informative lecture on the event of the Hungarian Wagner Society. ‘Wagner and the Hungarians, or the Reception of Richard Wagner’s Hungarian Art and the Short Chronicle of his ‘Hungarian Letters’. Wagner’s Hungarian Letters-Selection catalogue was also introduced as part of the presentation, which summarizes the correspondence of Wagner’s Hungarian reception-history. Budapest Music Center (BMC), 5 p.m., Budapest.
24 April 2015 - Lecture Concert ‘From the Folk Song to the Art Songs’. 24 April, 10 a.m., House of Civil Communities, Pécs. The performance was part of the winning tender: ‘Travels Around Music’, NKA (3004/887).
Participated in the preparation of the award-winning project ‘Travels around music’ of NKA (3004/887). Direction, consultancy.
24 March 2015 – Defended her Ph.D. Thesis and obtained her Ph.D./Dr. title. (Music Historian Dr. phil./Ph.D.). Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz, Reiterkaserne, 8. 45.
4 March 2015 - Ildikó Rita Anna Varga was the first in the World to collect the letters of Richard Wagner regarding the Hungarian Wagner-reception. The result was published for the first time in Hungary in the article of the author: Wagner and the Hungarians, subtitle: „Die Ungarn, die keinen Begriff von meiner Musik hatten”?, or The Hungarian reception of Richard Wagner’s Art and the Short Chronicle of his „Hungarian Letters”. Study. Published in GRAMOFON, Classical and jazz magazine, 2015, I/XX, pp. 4-10. (The first time of publication of this catalogue: 23 October 2014, Graz – In the Ph.D. Thesis of the author.)
5 February 2015 - Modification of the ‘Walkür-article’ on Wikipedia on 5 February 2015, 14:16. A Wikipedia (historical modification): The Valkyrie. ‘First night on 26 June 1870, Munich, requested by Louis II. Wagner was not really impressed with the idea of ‘defacing’ his dramatic cicle with this premiere, as the first two parts had been introduced in Munich, well before the performances in Bayreuth. The premiere in Hungary took place in the German Theatre, Gyapjú Street, 24 May 1883, performed by the Travelling Wagner-company of Angelo Neumann.’
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_walk%C3%BCr
11 Nov. 2014 - Academic presentation based on Ildikó Rita Anna Varga's dissertation, Richard Wagner, Hungary and the Nineteenth Century. Aspects of the Reception of Wagner's Operas and Music-Dramas. Universität für Musik and darstellende Kunst, Graz. In English.
8 Nov. 2014 - Operetta- and Opera arias. Kővágószőlős, Hungary.
6 Sept. 2014 - Festivity in Kozármisleny. Opera-, operetta-, musical-concert. With the contribution of Ildikó Rita Anna Varga's students.
20 Aug. 2014 - Concert in Mucsi.
26 June 2014 - The online publication of the music-historical essay - The Fabulous Musical Instruments of Iceland - on the website of Gramofon Magazine. One of the extracts can be found in the article - Jón Leifs, Alt eins... - is sung by Ildikó Rita Anna Varga. Organ: Zsuzsanna Petőcz.
http://www.gramofon.hu/hirek/klassz/488-meses-izlandi-hangszerek
21 June 2014 - Modificaton of the ‘Tanhäuser-article’ in Wikipedia. 21 June 2014, 14:11. (historical modification): Tannhäuser. ‘Premiere on 6 March 1862, German Theatre (Nottheater), Pest, Hungary, in German’, and on 11 March 1871 ‘in Hungarian, translated by Kornél Ábrányi Sr. in the National Theatre, Pest, Hungary’.
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user
14 June 2014 - Academic presentation in Hungarian - From Contemporaries to Contemporaries, Interdisciplinary Conference around Music, with a title of Richard Wagner and the Hungarians, or the Reception-history of Wagner in the 19th Century in the Light of the 'Hungarian Letters'. 1853-1883. Organised by the National Association of Doctors (DOSz) Department of Musicology, Budapest Music Centre, Budapest. She had an opportunity to participate for winning a tender.
31 May 2014 - She had the honour to sing in the consecration of her Grandfather's memorial plaque in Gyugy. Amongst others in front of the recently renovated church - originally built in the Árpád-age -, which lies in a sacred place, namely in the cross/conflux of the St. George lines.
28 May 2014 - The First Time, or The First Publication of Richard Wagner's name and The Premieres of His Compositions in Hungary. 1842-1924. Published on the website of the Hungarian Richard Wagner Society.
http://www.wagnertarsasag.hu/tajekozodas/default.asp
7 May 2014 - Romeo and Juliet Redesigned. Director, choreograph, coach: Ildikó Rita Anna Varga. Pécs, ANK, Theatre.
May 2014 - Richard Wagner and the Hungarians, Alias the History of Richard Wagner in Hungary in the 19th Century, in the Light of the ‘Hungarian Letters’ of Wagner. Curiosities, 1853-1883. Essay. Published in the journal: Hírmondó (Herald), Spring-Summer 2014, 1.-2./XVI, pp. 10-14.
10 March 2014 - Fabulous Icelandic Instruments. Essay. Published in the journal: Gramofon, 10 March 2014. Spring, 2014, I/XIX, pp. 4-8.
http://www.matarka.hu/cikk_list.php?fusz=120586
26 Feb. 2014 - Ildikó Rita Anna Varga's works had been used, and they refer back to her researches in the brochure of the terminal exhibition of Wagner and his Hungarian Friends (Budapest, Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre, from 17 May 2013 to 15 May 2014), which was published both in English and Hungarian on 26 February 2014, Budapest with the contribution of Liszt Ferenc Museum Foundation. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga's research-results can be seen on p. 7. and 21, also in Endnotes, p. 64, 3. and 20. both in the Hungarian and the English brochure.
9 Sept. 2013 – There is a photo on the website of the Archives of the Kalocsa Archbishopric, which was taken on the occasion of the 50th jubilee of Ferenc Liszt’s musical activity. In the photo not only Ferenc Liszt can be seen, but also other Hungarians from whom some were the admirer and friend of Richard Wagner. According to many Hungarian authors, Count Imre Széchenyi can be seen in the picture as well. Ildikó Rita Anna Varga has found out, that the aforementioned person can not be the Count and thanks to her research, the director of the Kalocsa Archbishopric, dr. Andor Lakatos, replaced the name of Count Imre Széchenyi with Antal Siposs on the website of the Archives of Kalocsa Archbishopric on 9 September 2013. Dr. Lakatos also noted the amendment of this mistake could be done thanks to Ildikó Rita Anna Varga’s research.
http://archivum.asztrik.hu/?q=oldal/6-liszt-es-haynald-a-foszekesegyhazban-az-angster-orgona-epitese
July 2013 – Zsuzsanna Domonkos, the director of the Research Library at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, asked Ildikó Rita Anna Varga to contribute to the exibition; Richard Wagner's Hungarian friends.
http://www.lisztmuseum.hu/hu/kiallitasok/idoszakos/
20 Apr. 2013 - Concert for Charity. E-78, Zsolnay Cultural District, Pécs, Hungary. Chief organiser, stage director.
27 March 2013 - Gala in Kodály Center in Pécs. Performer. Piece of Sky from Yentl with Ildikó Rita Anna Varga’s own, brand new Hungarian text, and Medley from The Phantom of the Opera. Composers: Michel Legrand and A. Ll. Webber.
