Four premieres, one basic piece: old and new generations of the Eötvös Foundation
If a profession has its masters, “the wise old”, we can learn from them at any age. That is what current mentees of the Eötvös Foundation do.
Sophie Hacsek (Managing Editor)
New opera-musical version of The Master and Margarita – interview with director Vajk Szente
The music is exciting: classical opera on the one hand, rock music on the other, and thirdly, there are musical elements – says the director.
Wandering Jew, Weimar’s Dead, Fathers’ Crypt: songs by Liszt at the Liszt Fest
Thomas Hampson, one of the best baritones in the US, deals a lot with songs of the age of Romaticism. Coming soon at the Liszt Fest!
The storming organ playing of Martin Sturm at the Liszt Fest
The youngest professor at the Weimar Academy of Music will play the magnificent, richly coloured sounding organ of the St. Teresa of Avila Parish Church.
A married couple on the stage of heaven
Mari Simon, actress, and Gábor Mészöly, writer and dramaturg, recently passed away. Writer Gyula Böszörményi says farewell to them.
Viktor Tóth: there are no styles, only soulful our soulless music
I want to be a creative musician and a composer who always writes from his soul. I’m searching for the meaning of my presence in this world.
Arno Schuitemaker – if you could see me now… and now… and now…
Arno Schuitemaker is originally an aeronautical engineer, which makes his choreographies to be always led by rationality.
Gergely Agócs: we have no reason to hold grudge against the neighbouring countries
“I have collected more than 850 hours of folk music material during the last 35 years, and meanwhile I visited hundreds of places.”
Víkingur Ólafsson: Hungarians are everywhere in my career
I’m catching pianist Víkingur Ólafsson for an interview during his tour in Los Angeles to discuss his newest album and the related concert…
Friedrich Liechtenstein: sometimes irony is more precise than realism
I remember how lovely it felt with 15 to sleep on the Margaret Island under the stars – he recalls before coming to Budapest soon again.
Cédric Eeckhout’s message to Hungarian PM – what is to be half Flemish, half Walloon?
I realised more and more how my personal feelings and life events are connected to European politics and international relations.
Péter Kálmán: I won’t be the usual Don Giovanni but a wizard
Director András Hábetler and myself are childhood friends, so he tailored the character of Don Giovanni to match my personality.
Gabi Szűcs: the femme fatale has no success in finding happiness
Jazz singer Gabi Szűcs investigates in her concert what is really like to be labelled as femme fatale. Are these women better lovers than wives?
Jazz musicians need to be as open as the genre itself! – remembering János Gonda
He did so many things that it is almost impossible to imagine how it could be only one person’s life work.
Brilliant Metropolitan broadcasts coming to Müpa’s new season too
Broadcasts help us concentrate on the content rather than the externalities: the HD quality makes them almost as good as an opera experience on stage.
Zubin Mehta’s long and adventurous life with the focus on four cities
“Once the applause faded, he didn’t need a cane anymore. On stage he was flying. And he easily took the whole large orchestra and his audience with him.”
We were born in this land yet strive for the sky: story of the My Land
In stories seemingly from Eastern European countries, Bence Vági found the universal, human; something relatable to his life in Hungary, too.
The second Marsalis son speaks his mind about music, family, or society
Wynton Marsalis seems like the a true prototype of being a “musical second born” – both in terms of subversion and innovation.
Is she the best Carmen? Elīna Garanča between two worlds
According to reviewers, she is among the most authentic personifications of Carmen and an inevitable part of European opera life.
Budapest Wagner Days goes online again – good news for fans all around the world!
Budapest Wagner Days goes online for the second consecutive year already. This means that it can be watched from everywhere around the world!