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From the Heart of Transylvania to the Met
#Brigitta Kele #BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Dóra Melis #Ferenc Liszt #oratorical music #The Legend of St. Elizabeth

From the Heart of Transylvania to the Met

Barely seven years old, a little girl in a small church in Oradea, in the St. Catherine estate started her career: she was playing Mary in the nativity play. Thanks to her stamina she strode confidently up the imaginary rungs of the opera world, until in 2016 she reached the...
As if hundred thousand ancestresses were present – interview with Irén Lovász
#album #Healing Voices #Irén Lovász #Müpa #release

As if hundred thousand ancestresses were present – interview with Irén Lovász

Irén Lovász has worked on her four-part record series Healing Voices for seventeen years. After Sacred Voice, Inner Voice and Female Voice, the final piece, Healing Voice, arrived this year, completing the collection. I talked to the Kossuth Prize-winning singer about the album release concert on 8 October, but of...
A “faithless wife” burnt, her love beheaded: the brutality of old ballads
#Anna Rácz #Müpa #The Faithless Wife #Zoltán Zsuráfszky

A “faithless wife” burnt, her love beheaded: the brutality of old ballads

The story of an investigation: the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble's grand premiere at Müpa Budapest, The Faithless Wife, works with the gloominess of ballads but in a contemporary way. One of the most treasured pieces in old Hungarian ballad repertoire, Barcsai's Lover is the starting point for a full-length crime...
Góbé is 15! – Birthday concert in the Müpa
#Anna Rácz #Góbé #Müpa #Nóra Fehér

Góbé is 15! – Birthday concert in the Müpa

The first time I heard the Góbé play live was earlier this year, and I've been listening to one or two of their songs every day since then. The first few bars of their music and Áron Várai's lead singing caught me hooked immediately and I haven't let go since....
Tcha Limberger learned Hungarian to play Hungarian music
#Liszt Fest #Müpa #Tcha Limberger

Tcha Limberger learned Hungarian to play Hungarian music

I hope I won’t make multi-instrumentalist musician Tcha Limberger’s wife too angry with me if I admit: I fell a bit in love with her husband’s voice. Partly because of its soft sound, which is also useful for singing, and partly because he, a non-Hungarian, speaks my native language totally...
Crazy About Jazz – Erika Náray and her special guests
#Crazy About Jazz #Győző Nagy #Müpa #Nóra Fehér

Crazy About Jazz – Erika Náray and her special guests

The Müpa Budapest Crazy About Jazz series continues with its sixth season, in which a selection of Hungarian cultural figures confess their passion for jazz, with a musical twist. The hostess of the evenings, Erika Náray, a wonderful actress and singer, has previously been the host of a series of...
Levon Eskenian: Bartók got to Armenians only after the genocide
#Armenia #Gurdjieff Ensemble #Levon Eskenian #Müpa

Levon Eskenian: Bartók got to Armenians only after the genocide

Four and a half years ago, I had a very impressive discussion with Levon Eskenian, leader of Armenian Gurdjieff Ensemble (with a Hungarian article as a result). They were founded to play ethnographically authentic arrangements of the music of the legendary spiritual leader G. I. Gurdjieff, but through that work,...
Here, Romanians, Hungarians and the Roma coexist peacefully – interview with Zsolt Juhász
#Cecília Stenszky #Danube Art Ensemble #folk dance #Liszt Fest #Mezőség #Zsolt Juhász

Here, Romanians, Hungarians and the Roma coexist peacefully – interview with Zsolt Juhász

The Danube Art Ensemble brings treasures of the region Mezőség (Transylvanian Plain), from dance through music to clothes, to a Budapest audience. Mezőség, which is between the cities Cluj-Napoca, Gherla and Dej, looks barren but in fact has a rich cultural life. We were asking director Zsolt Juhász about the...
Some Favourites of the Erdődy Orchestra – interview with Zsolt Szefcsik
#Anna Rácz #Erdődy Orchestra #György Orbán #hungary #Levente Gyöngyösi #Miklós Rózsa #Müpa #Poland #Simon Laks #violin #Wojciech Kilar #Zsolt Szefcsik

Some Favourites of the Erdődy Orchestra – interview with Zsolt Szefcsik

The Erdődy Chamber Orchestra has an innovative spirit in many ways, says violinist, concert master and artistic leader Zsolt Szefcsik, who is also a founder of the group. Their goal is to have a repertoire of 18th century Hungarian pieces that are usually not played in Hungary. Later, contemporary composers...
“We are all related!” – A show featuring a Hungarian ethnomusicologist and Caucasian folk musicians
#Anikó Magócsi #ethnomusicology #folk music #Gergely Agócs #Müpa #Paternal Branch #Zoltán Kodály

“We are all related!” – A show featuring a Hungarian ethnomusicologist and Caucasian folk musicians

In the Caucasus, several local ethnicities have a music culture which is strikingly similar to Hungarian folk song types. Gergely Agócs has been conducting research in this geographical area for almost two decades. Paternal Branch, presented in the Béla Bartók Concert Hall on 24 September, investigates the Eastern connections of...
This performance isn’t an end of the debate, it’s an exclamation mark – interview with Fruzsina Háda and Renáta Báder
#docudrama #Éljen soká Regina! #Fruzsina Háda #gypsies #improvization #Live long Regina! #Nóra Fehér #people's theatre #Renáta Báder #roma #SajátSzínház #theatre #Zsolt Várkonyi

This performance isn’t an end of the debate, it’s an exclamation mark – interview with Fruzsina Háda and Renáta Báder

We – unlike most people – are forced to prove even more, suffering the same fate. Ensuring safety of life for our children is painful as we are driven to go against the current. How to struggle to live from hand to mouth because of their deplorable circumstances is a...

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