The music of Bach, the magnificent and exquisite Requiem by Duruflé, as well as contemporary organ works will be performed at Müpa Budapest on Tuesday evening, 30 November, in a concert that crosses eras, genres and generations. The beautiful organ, the focal point of Müpa's Béla Bartók National Concert Hall,...
Lucrezia Borgia was a renaissance genius Gaetano Donizetti proved to contemporary audiences that he could also write dramatic works with his opera Lucrezia Borgia. This work, directed by Ferenc Anger and performed in semi-staged form at Müpa Budapest on 18 November, occupies a very special place among the works of...
Lucie Horsch, 22-year-old recorder virtuoso, is one of the six chosen participants (this year, four soloists and two formations) of the Rising Stars programme. The joint initiative of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) gives the opportunity for young artists every year to enchant the audience in many different venues...
On 5 November, it will have been one hundred years since world-renowned Hungarian piano virtuoso György Cziffra was born, and twenty seven years since he passed away. The György Cziffra Memorial Year, launched in February under the artistic direction of János Balázs, Kossuth Prize-winning pianist, features more than 100 concerts...
Two monumental symphonic poems in the history of Hungarian music and a thrilling premiere: the Liszt Fest's concert on 23 October, The Sounds of Freedom, is promising to be full of emotion, power and catharsis. “What is our life but a series of preludes to that unkown melody whose first...
As the years pass by, I find myself increasingly open to musical productions that operate with a fusion of styles that are seemingly distant from each other. Not only the fusion of classical music and jazz, but also the blend of classical and world music has a lot to show...
Gergely Vajda, the well-known conductor and composer, has long been fascinated by Péter Esterházy's novelette, Transporters. The composition, which lasts about an hour, was completed last year and was performed in March in a concert performance at the BMC. The chamber orchestra was conducted by the composer himself, with...
When Liszt was once questioned whether he had ever considered writing the story of his life, he replied gloomily that such a life was enough to live through. He was a man of passion, a virtuoso, an innovator, and we could go on and on. According to Norbert Káel, internationally...
In this welfare-based part of the world where I write these words, we are experiencing a special and unusual case. Namely: the border of youth is pushing forward as we age. I have been hearing for almost two decades now: “don’t worry, you’re still so young”, and anyway, 40 is...
Viktor Tóth and his fellow musicians prepare something special for us with their concert Right On! in the Müpa. Their improvisational music, operating with different styles and switches between moods, will guard us through a stream from island to island. Our sailors are musicians playing soulful music who offer the...
The Hungarian description of the show If You Could See Me Now says: “Arno Schuitemaker is originally an aeronautical engineer, which makes his choreographies to be always led by rationality. He creates the perfect abstraction in a pure mathematical language. The dancers impress the audience with movements consisting of a...
I’m catching pianist Víkingur Ólafsson for an interview during his tour in Los Angeles to discuss his newest album, Mozart and Contemporaries, and the related concert in the Müpa on 22 September. Despite the time zone difference (he’s sitting in front of Zoom at 8 am while I sip my...
The premiere of Don Giovanni happened 233 years ago. Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist of the opera noted that the emperor said afterwards: “An enchanting opera. Might be even better than the Figaro. But my Viennese don’t like this kind of music.” When Mozart heard this, he responded that the Viennese...
In the new season at the Müpa, broadcasts from the Metropolitan will have a special place once again. The extraordinary HD quality makes opera on the screen be a great experience. Among opera fans of 70 countries, also audience at Budapest can see New York directing, and how star singers,...
"The 85-year-old Maestro came out to the stage with a cane and you could see him happy and inspired by what was coming (or maybe by those who have come?). One way or another, once the long welcoming applause faded, he didn’t need a cane anymore, he didn’t even need...
“Opera singer. Diva. Painter of sounds. Cold blonde from the far North. This is how I was described in the last couple of years, but I see myself in a completely different way. The Elīna Garanča of the stage has not so much in common with Elīna Garanča the private...
“If only the Wagner days didn’t have to be cancelled!” – my acquaintances and I wished during the 2020 lockdowns when discussing how much we miss live cultural programmes. In mid-June, we already missed the possibly most intensive, most passionate series so much, which is not only a favourite to...
After the break due to the pandemic, Müpa opens its doors again! The leadership team gave a press conference last Thursday where they covered the topics of last year, the future of the institution, and released the programme for the summer and season 2021/2022. “Last year was a revelation about...
Artist Victor Vasarely, born in Pécs, Hungary, then living and working in France, has a work called Homage to the movement which is a truly joint expression of visual arts and movement arts. His op-art pictures have their own dynamics, and when we look at them, we have the illusion...
Béla Bartók plays a very important role in the career of dancer-choreographer Tamás Juronics. He composed a dance play on The Wooden Prince which was presented at the Szeged Open Air Festival in front of the cathedral, and he also created a piece on the basis of the Dance Suite....
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