The power couple of Hungarian music scene, Barnabás Kelemen and Katalin Kokas, celebrate the return of post-lockdown life with a Béla Bartók marathon. The violinist husband and wife play every single violin quartet by Bartók (the first part was on 20 May and the second will be on 23 May)...
One of the most monumental productions of the Bartók Spring is the premiere of The Faithless Wife. This is an old style Szekler folk ballad that tells a universal story about passionate love overwriting everything, marital infidelity, jealousy, and revenge. The show will be presented on 21 May by the...
Hungarian musician Charlie Horváth published an album called Mindenen túl (Over Everything) last year. It won the Fonogram prize and its creator the life work award of the Petőfi Music Prize. He will give an online concert in the Müpa as part of the Bartók Spring International Art Weeks, which...
“I wish the audience to experience the same miracle I experienced” Frédéric Chopin once told their friends that even if he dies, he will still hear from the afterworld if they play something to commemorate him. A friend enthusiastically offered to play his cello-piano sonatas, but then Chopin said: “No,...
Giselle, a romantic ballet, has been played constantly on the stages of the world for 180 years already. The subject is timeless: a girl, who goes mad and dies from disappointment in love and gets in the afterworld, saves her significant other from the revenge of the Wilis, the spirits...
In 1918, internationally renowned Hungarian director Sándor Korda released the silent film version (Man of Gold) of the novel The Man with the Golden Touch by Mór Jókai. The film is very far from being forgotten - its film strips have been remastered, and now a brand new music has...
You know that one when the Belgian, the English, the Italian and the Russian go in a… well, nowadays rather nowhere. Four conductors, just like their orchestras and singers, still cannot travel to Budapest to take part in the first Bartók Spring, so they will all broadcast a wonderful concert...
It has been six months without live music in Hungarian concert halls, but we can still have music in our life. Müpa Home has been continuing to broadcast concerts for us in our homes: symphonic orchestras, chamber music, world music, folk music, jazz, blues, and many more. Anyone could find...
Who was Molière? Everyone who listened at school at least a bit can answer: a playwright. Those who listened more can also recall things like the age of baroque, 17th century, the court of the Sun King, the early days of modern theatre. And the most fanatic ones can see...
American distributor Focus Features LLC has struck a deal to distribute worldwide British-Hungarian co-production Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris starring Isabelle Huppert, Lesley Manville and Lucas Bravo, the National Film Institute (NFI), said in a statement on Thursday NFI cited movie portal Deadline as saying that Focus Features “has struck...
Equinox - check! Turning the clocks (one last time?) forward - check! Scents, chirping, buzzing outside - no more signs needed to acknowledge that springtime has come! Easter is almost here which, alas, we can celebrate once again only quietly in a most immediate circle, but there is also the...
After Bach’s birthday last weekend, today we celebrate the last one of the “Four Big B’s” (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók). And it is even a round anniversary: the composer who defined 20th century music fundamentally, not only in his homeland Hungary but internationally, was born 140 years ago. We can...
The 21th of March is the first day of spring and the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach. It might be no coincidence that the composer whose music incorporates the wonder of the universe joined this earth on the day of the rebirth of nature. It is hard to talk about...
Müpa has held a lot of birthdays already. Last time it was György Kurtág whom we could celebrate in front of our screens with the help of a live streamed concert and beautiful archive videos. Also, Péter Eötvös had a Müpa-birthday some years ago, where actor Pál Mácsai recited Péter...
“I have never seen such a flawless premiere, I have never been welcomed with such an astonishment” – wrote Felix Mendelssohn after the premiere of the oratory Elijah which was performed in front of approximately 2000 people at the Birmingham Music Festival. The audience was so excited that the orchestra...
In the online series of Müpa Home, there is another special concert that we can enjoy from our homes on the 23th of February, 7:30 pm. “A dinner where all courses are cakes! But they are so satisfyingly different!” – says the teaser of Müpa about this online broadcasted concert...
György Kurtág is 95. The birthday of the world famous Hungarian composer will be celebrated through four nights by the Budapest Music Center, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and the Müpa, and the audience can follow the free online events of the Kurtág 95 festival. The concert on the...
Stendhal wrote about Rossini: since the death of Napoleon, he’s the man who is talked about every day, everywhere in the world, and the borders of his glory are the same as the borders of the intellectual world. That’s why the online Rossini Gala organised by Müpa on the 29th...
Classic swing, spoken word, poetry-music, improvisation, funk: the 24th of January will be the day of jazz in the Müpa and the online space. Six bands of young musicians will play at the Jazz Showcase programme to introduce the newest branches of the genre and its novel styles to the...
We have discussed many times how difficult last year was for musicians. Olivier Latry, however, has had an even longer chain of unlucky events: the virus was preceded by the fire. First, the world famous organist of the Notre-Dame in Paris had to watch how a huge part of the...
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