Gemini, the constellation in the sky, is easily identifiable by its two brightest stars, Castor and Pollux. According to mythology, Jupiter himself placed them there, making them immortal due to their love and brotherhood despite facing adversity. The story of Castor and Pollux has been adapted into Jean-Philippe Rameau's fourth...
“Books and life merged for poet Bálint Balassi” (Gábor Tolnai) Bálint Balassi is one of the most ambivalent and mysterious figures of the beginnings of Hungarian poetry. Restless life, running towards death in the battle for the protection of Esztergom, ten days of agony, and around hundred poems left for...
Venice evokes images of indulgent feasts, thrilling excitement, and luminous light, particularly for those who have experienced the fragrance of the lagoons at dusk amidst the setting sun. Similarly, the trumpet's resounding call conjures up feelings of celebration, excitement, and illumination for many. Amongst the few who have mastered this...
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, born in a Jewish family in Brno and grown to be a child prodigy, changed the Golden age of Hollywood forever. His film music made him famous, his life was also as adventurous as a film, and he also wrote chamber music, songs, concertos, symphonic poems and...
Since 2008, the annual marathons of Müpa and the Budapest Festival Orchestra have presented the best of a composer's work in a series of concerts, starting in the morning and running until late into the evening. On 4 February 2023, the programme will focus on Sergei Prokofiev , who died...
Edina Szvoren, one of the most prominent and innovative writers of contemporary Hungarian short fiction, will be the special guest of the Müpa Literarium in January. Her work has won numerous awards, including 2019's Libri Literary Award. "Her 2010 short story collection Pertu is a distinctive debut, each of her...
Discoveries – Young Geniuses, Classical Orchestras. This is the title of Müpa’s series which is soon going to bring together pianist Anton Gerzenberg and the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Levente Török. Where have these two young talents first met, how did Rachmaninoff make it to the concert programme, and...
The Christmas dance play by the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble, Wonderful Nativity, has become a long-standing tradition. The production, presented in 2018, revives folk traditions and Christian traditions, making it possible to experience the expectation of something special and unique, which stretches back to the Christmas holidays of the olden...
What do we know about medieval Christmas? When compared to contemporary Christmas, both the similarities and the differences are somewhat surprising. Surely, this was quite an important feast for medieval people, too, and they started the preparations many weeks beforehand. The feast of St Martin, which is still widely celebrated...
A musician who is impossible to put labels on. She is a cellist and a singer, of Arabic background in France, plays jazz, classical music and pop, and writes her songs in three languages. Nesrine Belmokh comes to Budapest soon with the music from her newest album – I asked...
Kristály (Crystal), a production by Recirquel, has been enchanting the audience in the winter period for five years already. Both children and adults love dwelling in its wonders. The show, which is set in a special space, will be played in a brand new venue this year: the Millenáris Glass...
The Great Hungarian Songbook 3, Müpa, 6 December 2022, 7pm The Great Hungarian Songbook, a series started by Müpa Budapest in 2014, sounds a bit like nostalgic and retro. However, if you peek into what is planned for the upcoming concert, you can see how contemporary it actually is –...
In the darkest weeks of the year, in the run-up to Advent, even those who don't often deal with transcendental issues tend to turn inwards, open to spiritual experiences. The Messiah and other renowned Advent classics are played in the venues, while Christmas sacred music, carols and psalms resonate with...
Youssou N'Dour concert, 08. November 2022, 8pm, Müpa In most of the "shallow West", it wasn't until 1994, with the long-unremoved 7 seconds with Neneh Cherry, that the average person became aware of his name, but Youssou N'Dour, revered by many as Africa's most influential singer-songwriter ever, had been scouring...
Diana Tishchenko and Zoltán Fejérvári enjoy working together both on stage and in the recording studio. She is from Ukraine and he is from Hungary, she is a violinist and he is a pianist, she is part of the Rising Stars programme and he is happy to accompany her there....
Close your eyes and imagine how many colours can come out of a guitar if a very talented musician plays it! Done? All right. How many colours did you see? More than you can count, I guess. Then how about doing the same… with two guitars? It is a great...
It is always an uplifting and touching moment when a senior artist steps on stage with more junior ones. This time pianist Gábor Farkas, cellist László Fenyő and violinist Barnabás Kelemen are honoured to play two-piano pieces and piano trios with legendary pianist Ilona Prunyi. What is in common in...
On 115th anniversary of his birth, Müpa Budapest will present György Ránki's first hit work, the children's opera King Pomádé's new clothes, based on Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes. Having composed his first works at the tender age of twelve, Ránki no doubt belongs in the canon of the most...
“Write an opera, but do not use any existing basis for it! Forget Euripides, Shakespeare and Grabbe, and focus on a truly contemporary problem!” This was the commission that Jörg Widmann received from the Bavarian State Opera in the early 2000s. The composer, being in his late twenties back then,...
This has never happened before! The Musician and the Composer of the Season kick off with a joint concert in the Müpa. Judit Varga, with whom we have talked several times before, has put together the programme of her signature concert, where her own compositions engage in an exciting dialogue...
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