There is a book in the Harry Potter series in which British wizards host foreign guests to organize a championship between the most talented students of three schools – and three countries, regions, cultures. These young people are chosen by a magical object, the Goblet of Fire, which is also...
THE LIMITS OF WORKLabour: Our Life In 2017, more than 20% of people worked in the Czech Republic for less than 83 CZK (3,2 EUR) per hour. Minimum wage was the fifth lowest in the EU – 11.000 CZK (425 EUR). Journalist Saša Uhlová has decided to go after those...
Grandiose Baltic melodies It’s a rare occasion for the audience of Müpa to listen to Baltic music. This year, the CAFe Budapest Contemporary Art Festival starts with the concert of Sinfonietta Riga on the 5th of October, featuring an Estonian conductor. They play four pieces by four different composers who...
Ever since Dean Brown completed his studies at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, he has always been the first name to call if a supergroup finds itself needing a jazz-rock guitarist. For this occasion Brown will arrive to CAFe Budapest fronting his own international band. Brown’s father...
I love theatre, that has always been so. For some reason, though, I have become a bit more estranged from classical staging lately. I am rather interested in interactive, transformative forms that involve audience as participants or even contributors. I came across a lot of intriguing ideas throughout the years,...
The dance project is called Shapers, although its initiators are French and the dancers are from different Mediterranean countries. A bit bashful, I was waiting on the England side of the telephone line for Anne Le Batard, artistic director of Shapers and member of Ex Nihilo, to pick up in...
Can someone be a classical composer if he plays in a hardcore band that has “shit” in its name? Or who invents a new instrument with robots playing on it? And who writes soundtrack for Hunger Games? And what about a man who dislikes being called “classical”, but everything listed...
The way The Magic Flute unfolds before us is twofold: at first, a fairytale which takes us into the pure poetry of childhood or genius; then - and most of all - a precise, rigorous, and inspired ritual. This combination may seem strange. Let us first observe that it functions...
The 18th international literature festival berlin The 18th international literature festival berlin (ilb) will take place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele from September 5 – 15, 2018. In addition, you can attend several ilb events at cultural spots around the city – for example at the Museum für Naturkunde...
Due to the large number of visitors, the exhibition Marina Abramović Two Hearts at Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna will be prolonged until Friday, June 22, 2018. To this day, around 2,000 art lovers have visited the exhibition of the most important performance artist of the present day. "We can have so many...
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World festival, competition, gala and a stunning experience of classical music… in one? Yes, this is a real thing, coming soon in the Müpa Budapest between May 18 and 21, and it’s called the International Choral Celebration. Thousands of people will turn up at several locations and concerts – professional...
My house is my body. Sometimes an eternal labyrinth. A chaotic bustle. Lots of reflexions. Toss and turn – where I stand, without even starting off. A way, an obscure collision in the darkness, a connection. Synchronicity. Body is in the focus of the show ’My house’, body with different...
Composer, conductor, pianist, a passionate promoter of music, and an ebullient showman – Leonard Bernstein was all of these once. The Kennedy family adored him, President Nixon’s description of him is not fit to be printed, the FBI compiled a 700-page file on him, the expression “radical chic” was coined...
Let’s start with some random data. He’s been fascinated by computers since the age of seven, he has a degree in semiotics, and he’s not ruffled in the least if someone wants to discuss cognitive psychology with him. As a small boy he imitated John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever....
Social media have left their mark on classical music too. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have quite a say in how a musician presents themselves. The upcoming generation of world stars seems to care little either for tried and trusted methods, or for our what we’re used to. Or are we...
A more colourful example of the ability of music to transcend cultures could hardly be found: Columbia, Uzbekistan, and Austria meet in Budapest, in the spirit of Beethoven, Bartók, and Stravinsky. An orchestra dear to our hearts, but once barred for decades from performing in the Hungarian capital, arrives in...
After a long interval Sir Roger Norrington conducts again in Budapest. The eighty-three year old British conductor, known for his much discussed approach to performance, the first to record all Beethoven’s symphonies with the original tempo markings, conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a Mozart programme. In...
A diva blessed with an enthralling coloratura, an authentic performer of the most difficult Mozart arias and bel canto opera roles, who has the whole world at her feet... Nothing would seem further from this singer, who is now preparing to appear in Budapest as an interpreter of the simplest...
In August 20, 1968, troops of the Soviet Union, The People’s Republic of Poland, the German Democratic Republic, the People’s Republic of Hungary and the People’s Republic of Bulgaria crossed the border of Czechoslovakia. Fifty years later, the documentary Occupation 1968 shows the events from a rather unusual perspective: of these...
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