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#Anna Rácz #Jazzical Trio #Liszt Fest #Nóra Fehér #Norbert Káel

Norbert Káel: it was a part of Liszt’s rockstar image to be charming

Liszt Fest is a great opportunity for the Jazzical Trio to show how he was a modern composer who can still be relevant today.

#Balázs Kecskés D. #Eötvös Foundation #Francisco Domínguez #Georges Aperghis #Liszt Fest #Péter Eötvös

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.

#Győző Nagy #Levente Gyöngyösi #Liszt Fest #Nóra Fehér #The Master and Margarita #Vajk Szente

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.

#Franz Liszt #Liszt Fest #Müpa #Thomas Hampson

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!

#Liszt Fest #Martin Sturm #Nóra Fehér #organ #Zsuzsanna Deák

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.

#eulogy #Gábor Mészöly #Gyula Böszörményi #Mari Simon #Nóra Fehér

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.

#Anna Rácz #improvisation #Müpa #Viktor Tóth

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 #Trafó

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.

#Anna Rácz #ethnomusicology #folk music #Fonó Band #Gergely Agócs #Müpa

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.”

#Müpa #piano #Víkingur Ólafsson #Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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 #irony #Müpa #performance

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 #The Quest #Trafó

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.

#Anna Rácz #Don Giovanni #Müpa #opera #Péter Kálmán #Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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.

#Anna Rácz #Gabi Szűcs #jazz #Müpa

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?

#János Gonda #jazz #Müpa #Zsuzsanna Deák

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.

#call #fine arts

Call for Entries: Artist for Residency Programme

November and May each year, the Foundation provides accommodation and use of the studio of the Villa Tosa di Sotto in San Sano.

#Metropolitan #Müpa #opera #Zsuzsanna Deák

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.

#conductor #Müpa #Rudolf Buchbinder #Zubin Mehta

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.”

#Bence Vági #Müpa #My Land #Recirquel

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.

#jazz #Müpa #trumpet #Wynton Marsalis

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.

#Elina Garanca #Karel Mark Chichon #Müpa #opera singer

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.

#33 virtues #Billi Thanner #Himmelsleiter #Vienna

Himmelsleiter in St Stephan’s Vienna extended until September 2021

Since Easter Sunday 2021, Billi Thanner’s Himmelsleiter rises into the Viennese sky illuminated in neon gold on the south tower of St. Stephan’s Cathedral.

#Gustav Mahler #Klagenfurt #Mahler Forum

Event by recently established Mahler Forum is coming soon in Klagenfurt

The Mahler Forum invites you to the Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt and to the Gustav Mahler Composer’s House Maiernigg.

#Budapest Wagner Days #Müpa #Müpa Home #Richard Wagner #Zsuzsanna Deák

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!

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Norbert Káel: it was a part of Liszt’s rockstar image to be charming

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New opera-musical version of The Master and Margarita – interview with director Vajk Szente

Wandering Jew, Weimar’s Dead, Fathers’ Crypt: songs by Liszt at the Liszt Fest

The storming organ playing of Martin Sturm at the Liszt Fest

A married couple on the stage of heaven

Viktor Tóth: there are no styles, only soulful our soulless music

Arno Schuitemaker – if you could see me now… and now… and now…

Gergely Agócs: we have no reason to hold grudge against the neighbouring countries

Víkingur Ólafsson: Hungarians are everywhere in my career

Friedrich Liechtenstein: sometimes irony is more precise than realism

Cédric Eeckhout’s message to Hungarian PM – what is to be half Flemish, half Walloon?

Péter Kálmán: I won’t be the usual Don Giovanni but a wizard

Gabi Szűcs: the femme fatale has no success in finding happiness

Jazz musicians need to be as open as the genre itself! – remembering János Gonda

Call for Entries: Artist for Residency Programme

Brilliant Metropolitan broadcasts coming to Müpa’s new season too

Zubin Mehta’s long and adventurous life with the focus on four cities

We were born in this land yet strive for the sky: story of the My Land

The second Marsalis son speaks his mind about music, family, or society

Is she the best Carmen? Elīna Garanča between two worlds

Himmelsleiter in St Stephan’s Vienna extended until September 2021

Event by recently established Mahler Forum is coming soon in Klagenfurt

Budapest Wagner Days goes online again – good news for fans all around the world!

Dennis Edwards dead at 74

A series of Susan Anwin’s short stories is launching at Art Here Art Now tomorrow

Films to be broadcast in the Berlinale Classics 2018

Baroque Soap Opera Reloaded

Body as more than a mere object of desire – Jan Němec about František Drtikol

The story of El Paso lived in me in a brilliant way – interview with Winston Groom

Branford Marsalis: Playing with Sting for four years was a great experience

A series of Susan Anwin’s short stories is launching at Art Here Art Now tomorrow

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