Throughout their sixty-year history, Studio 11 have played a decisive role in the development of Hungarian popular music. Its members have always been highly skilled musicians and outstanding soloists, renowned performers of the Hungarian and international jazz scene. The result of decades of artistic activity can be heard and heard...
Ska, which originated in the Jamaican music movement of the 1960s, was originally based on brass and was a blend of jazz, rhythm and blues and Caribbean musical influences. Over the years, it has evolved and taken on characteristics of many other musical styles, such as rocksteady, reggae, punk rock...
The Ligeti 100 continues to rumble on, with centenary concerts in Hungary and around the world, and the audience shows more and more enthusiasm for the futuristic and modern masterpieces of one of Hungary's most famous composers. We recently wrote about a concert by Péter Eötvös and Klangforum Wien, and...
First time filmmaker Vasilis Katsoupis launches his movie with an in medias res. Inside opens with the failed attempt of a high scale robbery. Nemo (Willem Dafoe), an artist turned art aficionado slash art thief, gets trapped inside a monochrome art gallery-esque penthouse. Since sheer physical force does not help...
Mísia, originally Susana Maria Alfonso de Aguiar, sings in the world-famous Portuguese fado genre. Her powerful, passionate voice embodies the musical atmosphere and emotional style of fado. She will soon be performing live at Müpa Budapest, where she will be touring with her latest album Animal Sentimental, released in 2022....
Apologies in advance to anyone who thinks the title is too clickbait, but it just cannot be less dramatic. Martin Grubinger, the brilliant "multi-instrumentalist", recently announced that he will end his musical career at the end of this season. Why would a global star, who is also still as young...
Hungarian singer Bea Palya released her album Nő (Woman) in 2014, which was a turning point in her career. "I feel that for the first time, I was able to put together who I am as a whole," she said at the time. The songs tell the story of what...
There are those hugely popular Verdi operas, which are constantly performed all over the world – and then there are those rare gems such as I Lombardi. The libretto of this story, set in the age of the Crusades, was written by the same Temistocle Solera to whom we can...
Ferenc Szijj is one of the most important figures of the post-regime-change generation of Hungarian poets, albeit he usually stays away from the spotlight. Born in 1958, he is an Attila József Prize-winning writer, poet and literary translator. He graduated from the University of Szeged (then: Attila József University) in...
Two romantic opera overtures and two concertos: the upcoming concert of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra will transport you to the world of a medieval Russian heroic poem and a forest where a German hunter makes deals with the devil. In addition to popular pieces that evoke fantastic stories, two brilliant...
The Bartók Spring Festival's program boasts a real treasure: the premiere of the children's opera, Frau Holle, at Müpa This stage piece by Dániel Csengery, winner of a prize in the institution's 2020 music competition, is a noteworthy addition to the children's opera repertoire, which is still relatively limited. The...
When it comes to opera, I prefer the Metropolitan. No, I don't buy a plane ticket or travel long hours to New York, I just get on the tram number two in Budapest and get off at the Müpa. This is where the not so ordinary classical music experience is...
"I think the way to look at it is musicians have always listened to other kinds of music. There's never been a time when people have stayed in one place and not travelled, traded or migrated. So there has never been any such thing as a pure' form of music....
A monumental symphonic poem containing one of the world's most famous musical excerpts, one of the most influential epic poems in English literature, which has inspired many literary and cinematic works to date, and an exciting world premiere: the event titled Doubt and Seeking at the Bartók Spring will bring...
Many generations of Hungarian children have enjoyed István Fekete's 1937 adventure novel, The Agha's Testament, and the film adaptation from thirty years later. These works inspired Benjamin Eredics' moving, turbulent dance music, in which the typical, characteristic figures of the period and the wild and romantic surroundings of the Hungarian...
There is an island. More precisely, there is The Island. It is where past and future meet, and even get along well. Don't search for it in the lake or the sea, rather look and listen inside yourself: so when you see it, you will recognise it immediately by the...
Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali and his world-renowned Philharmonia Orchestra will perform one of the most iconic and important works of their homeland, Sibelius' magnificent and cosmic Symphony No. 5, on 16 April as part of the Bartók Spring International Arts Weeks. The symphony will be preceded by Beethoven's Leonora Overture...
Perhaps the most numerous and various Hungarian folk customs are connected to the Easter holiday. Although the traditions and the performed home or village "ceremonies" may vary from region to region, the main events and cycle of the holiday are mostly the same everywhere. "I have never seen a more...
Heightened emotions of dance works, written by two 20th century giants, come before and after the work of a world famous contemporary composer at the concert of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra led by Semyon Bychkov. One of Bartók's most popular and most performed plays, The Miraculous Mandarin always has a...
“They often treat organ as an old, museal relic, but if we look closer, we can see that it is a living and breathing organism, still having a lot to say to us” – says brilliant young organist Nathan Laube about the so-called queen of the instruments. He will give...
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