Gilbert Varga, the British conductor with Hungarian roots, found his way “back home” last February when he performed in Hungary. That day, it seems that something touched him deeply while playing with the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, in their concert hall at their hometown Pécs. In October, it was a breaking...
The Land of Smiles, Müpa, 1 February 2019, 7 pm We caught the incredibly nice opera singer, Karine Babajanyan, for an interview about Ferenc Lehár’s operetta The Land of Smiles, where she sings Lisa’s role. The piece had its premiere in Shanghai at fall 2018. This monumental coproduction of Müpa...
Christmas Organ Concert: Monika Melcová and the choirs of the Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choral School, Müpa, 12.12.2018, 7:30 pm Less than three days, less than seventy-two hours of miracle, it’s just started but already over again. Although we wait for this all day long. Could it be that not Christmas...
Take two Hungarian drummers, a Chilean bass guitarist and an American guitarist. Shake them well and serve them fresh and hot on Müpa’s stage. How could you spice them even more? Well, what would you say if I told you that the guitarist plays with a special technique, invented as...
Marianne Csáky at a ppr oc he, Paris: an invitation-based art-fair of experimental photography is held between 9 and 11 November, at Paris’s distinguished Galerie le Molière, 40 Rue de Richelieu, 75001, featuring the artist's works. In her experimental photography, a fine selection of which is to be presented at a ppr oc...
Following its highly successful premiere in Munich, Pathos Theater, the Bavarian capital’s largest independent company will bring their experimental Faust performance to CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival audiences. This international project features German, Greek, Turkish and even two Hungarian artists, both of whom belong to the Pro Progressione Hungarian contemporary...
What can I thank to partner dance? The other day, I found something very interesting on one of my favourite Facebook sites on history. It was a list of the “Language of the Fan” that was found in...
“You can’t put this child on a stage this way!”, complained the director when he confronted a weird little character, maybe the weirdest of all. It was a seven-year-old girl who learned the whole script and all the lyrics without problems and happily recited it on request. She had no...
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,...
On August 11, a so-called Stolperstein (“stumbling stone”) was laid in front of 1 Pozsonyi Street, Budapest, which was the poet Miklós Radnóti’s home before he was sent for forced labour service and killed during the Second World War. Small commemoration, few words in newspapers - only because it wasn’t...
Tarot Labyrinth - Personal interactive self-awareness performance of the Living Picture Theater The Tarot Labyrinth follows an exceptional performance form: through interactive communicative situations you are called into a self-knowledge performance or if you like into a philosophical roll-game. This time the scene is a crypt in which the visitor wanders individually. At the...
You showed me the one with the lyrics ’I bumped the sofa, Auntie’, didn’t you? Yes! How you remember, it’s been three years since I showed you that one! Somehow I always get music like that from you (or at the Trafó)… This messaging with a friend brought me back...
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...
We are delighted to announce that István Haász, one of the most prominent artists of the Hungarian geometric constructivism, will present his first solo show at Ani Molnár Gallery. István Haász’s works examine the relation of surfaces to each other and their effect on space. Meanwhile he calls forth the...
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...
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...
Once a child prodigy who toured at the age of ten, Maxim Vengerov returns to the Hungarian concert platform with his students, and Péter Frankl makes chamber music with a cellist fifty years younger than him, István Várdai, in what promise to be two of the most exciting concerts 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...
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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