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Bass-baritone Bryn Terfel comes to his Budapest concert with a rugby shirt and some honey
#Anna Rácz #aria evening #bass-baritone #Bryn Terfel #knight #Müpa #opera #opera singer #Richard Wagner #royal family #singer #UK #Wales #Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Bass-baritone Bryn Terfel comes to his Budapest concert with a rugby shirt and some honey

It’s not easy to draw a portrait on Welsh bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel. This shining star of our times has been been performing on many stages all around the globe, but no matter where he is, a part of his heart is still in Wales. He shows his patriotism not...
An eternal mystery: Cécile McLorin Salvant lets her hoarse voice fly
#Anikó Magócsi #Béla Bartók Concert Hall #Billie Holiday #Cécile McLorin Savant #concert #deep #Ella Fitzgerald #france #Guadalupe #Haiti #jazz #Jazztimes #Jean-François Bonnel #Müpa #pianist #Sarah Vaughan #singer #Sullivan Fortner #Tunisia #USA

An eternal mystery: Cécile McLorin Salvant lets her hoarse voice fly

White glasses frames, piano and a unique voice I don’t want to sound clear and nice! – says Cécile McLorin Salvant, three-time winner of the Grammy award, who is about to come to the Müpa on 18th November. Originally a classical singer, she discovered jazz as the genre where she...
Music that shows you how deep can silence be – interview with James Wood
#Amadinda Percussion Group #CAFe Budapest #calmness #choir #composer #conductor #James Wood #John Cage #Khamush #melody #Morton Feldman #Müpa #mysticism #percussionist #rhythm #RIAS Kammerchor #Rumi #silence #spirituality

Music that shows you how deep can silence be – interview with James Wood

Klang der Stille - RIAS Kammerchor & Amadinda Percussion Group, Müpa, 20 October 2019, 7:30 PM Silence, calmness, spirituality, mystical experience of the divine - music from the 20th and 21st century evokes an experience which is with us since the very beginning of humankind. This is the joint project...
Electra is a murderer in my view – says choreographer János Feledi
#Béla Bartók Concert Hall #CAFe Budapest #choreography #contemporary dance #contemporary music #Csaba Káel #dance #Electra #Ernő Dohnányi Symphonic Orchestra Budafok #Euripides #Gábor Hollerung #Greek mythology #János Feledi #László Sallai #Mad Max #Müpa #music #mythology #Orpheus #revenge #Richard Strauss #Roland Szentpáli

Electra is a murderer in my view – says choreographer János Feledi

Two choreographies by János Feledi, winner of scholarship at the Hungarian Academy of Arts, will be performed on the stage of the Müpa on the 19th of October. One is Orpheus, a play premiered last year, and the other is a new piece called Revenge (Electra). We were talking to...
Angels fly to Budapest – Péter Eötvös’ opera for the first time in Hungary
#AIDS #Angels in America #CAFe Budapest #contemporary music #gay #LGBTQIA+ #Mari Mezei #Müpa #opera #othering #Péter Eötvös #premiere #Réka Barcza #Tony Kushner

Angels fly to Budapest – Péter Eötvös’ opera for the first time in Hungary

“A gay fantasia on national themes” This is the subtitle of Pulitzer-awarded play Angels in America. Still actual in today’s Hungary, the way majority society treats gay people, or otherness in general, no matter that Tony Kushner’s original play on “the state of American nation” in context of racial, religious,...
In John Cage’s piece, the singer feels naked on stage – interview with opera singer Katalin Károlyi
#Anna Rácz #Attila József #Béla Faragó #CAFe Budapest #concert #contemporary music #folk music #folk song #human voice #John Cage #Katalin Károlyi #Luciano Berio #opera #opera singer #poem #poems #series #song #song cycle #voice

In John Cage’s piece, the singer feels naked on stage – interview with opera singer Katalin Károlyi

On Hungary’s most prominent arts festival featuring all kinds of arts, on the 28th CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival, Katalin Károlyi mezzosoprano will give the concerts Human Voice 2.1 and Human Voice 2.2 on the 7th and 8th October. The repertoire consists of three contemporary pieces of different kinds. In...
Rolando Villazón – opera singer with jester vibes and a dinosaur mask
#Mexico #Müpa #opera #opera singer #Rolando Villazón #song #song recital #Spanish #tenor

Rolando Villazón – opera singer with jester vibes and a dinosaur mask

Rolando Villazón song recital, Müpa, 01.10.2019, 8 pm In case you saw Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love, you can remember the endless possibilities of ‘average guy sings so well under the shower that he eventually gets to the opera stage’. Believe it or not, it actually happened to a...
“We are all related!” – A show featuring a Hungarian ethnomusicologist and Caucasian folk musicians
#Anikó Magócsi #ethnomusicology #folk music #Gergely Agócs #Müpa #Paternal Branch #Zoltán Kodály

“We are all related!” – A show featuring a Hungarian ethnomusicologist and Caucasian folk musicians

In the Caucasus, several local ethnicities have a music culture which is strikingly similar to Hungarian folk song types. Gergely Agócs has been conducting research in this geographical area for almost two decades. Paternal Branch, presented in the Béla Bartók Concert Hall on 24 September, investigates the Eastern connections of...
Jazz Spring welcomes three great female jazz musicians this year
#bass guitar #Beyoncé #Ella Fitzgerald #Ida Nielsen #Jane Monheit #jazz #Jazz Spring #Müpa #Prince #saxophone #singer #Song Book #The Great American Song Book #Tia Fuller

Jazz Spring welcomes three great female jazz musicians this year

Ida Nielsen & Band, Festival Theatre, 3 May 2019, Friday, 8 pmJane Monheit and the Budapest Jazz Orchestra, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, 4 May 2019, Saturday, 8 pmTia Fuller's Diamond Cut, Festival Theatre, 5 May 2019, Sunday, 8 pm Jane Monheit and the Song Book Jane Monheit was born...
Why do musicians fear Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3?
#Ádám Brandenburg #Ádám Cser #composer #Martín García García #Miskolc Symphonic Orchestra #Müpa #pianist #piano #piano concerto #piano concerto no. 3 #Rachmaninoff #Sergei Rachmaninoff

Why do musicians fear Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3?

Ádám Cser and the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, 28 April 2019, Sunday, 7:30 pm „I wrote it for elephants”, said Sergei Rachmaninoff, according to some sources, to Vladimir Horowitz. Josef Hoffmann, original recipient of the piece, never played it in front of the public, and Gary Gaffman was sad to remark...
Temperamento Ungherese
#BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Concerto Budapest #János Ács #József Ács #Leoncavallo #Leonóra Mörk #Pesti Vigadó #Requiem

Temperamento Ungherese

Visitors to the Budapest Spring Festival will have the chance to indulge in a world premiere: the Concerto Budapest will play Leoncavallo’s Requiem, never before performed with a symphony orchestra, at the Budapest Vigadó. The reconstruction of the work spanned ten years, and was carried out by József Ács, the...
Harmony that Can Fly
#András Greff #British #BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #GoGo Penguin #jazz

Harmony that Can Fly

How do the motifs of electronic dance music find their way into the music of a classical jazz trio? GoGo Penguin from Manchester connects worlds far apart in an unexpectedly harmonious way. “If jazz has a place, that’s its place: the experimental world and just going for it!” - said...
He Comes, He Sees, He Conquers
#BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Cinderella #Erkel Theatre #Iolantha #Máté Csabai #Müpa #Prokofiev #Tchaikovsky #Valery Gergiev

He Comes, He Sees, He Conquers

“He gets bored when things are too well planned,” said stage designer George Tsypin of his close colleague Valery Gergiev. This phrase is a telling thumbnail sketch of the essence of the Russian conductor, whose calendar has room for two hundred concerts annually, press conferences, and even political events, but...
The Sherlock Holmes of Russian Opera
#Alba Regia Symphony Orchestra #BSF Magazine #Budapest Spring Festival #Dániel Mona #Dezső Ránki #Gergely Dubóczky #János Bojti #János Kovács #Khovanschchina #Maurice Ravel #Müpa #Mussorgsky #Pesti Vigadó

The Sherlock Holmes of Russian Opera

Find a story that’s full of mysteries. Stick with it till you solve them all, even if this takes decades. And finally: share it with others. Music researcher János Bojti’s investigative work, spanning over forty years, is so systematic in nature, we might even call it the “Bojti Method”. Thanks...
Glittering like gold – five personalities, five special-themed concerts
#baritone #Barnabás Kelemen #Béla Bartók Concert Hall #brass #Gilbert Varga #gold #gold standard #Ludwig Mittelhammer #Mayu Kishima #Müpa #Pannon Filharmonikusok #Péter Frankl #PFZ #piano #Szabolcs Zempléni #Tibor Bogányi #violin

Glittering like gold – five personalities, five special-themed concerts

Gold Standard – a series of the Pannon Philharmonics in the Béla Bartók Concert Hall, Budapest A gold medallist Once upon a time there was a little girl who loved playing the violin – and she did it on an extraordinary level. By the time she was nine, the old...
Budapest opens festival season in Europe – 39. Spring Festival launches on 5 April
#A38 ship #ballet #baroque #Bauhaus #Bebel Gilberto #Borbála Dobozy #Budapest Airport #Budapest Spring Festival #Cinderella #classical music #Csaba Káel #Czech #Czech Republic #David Lynch #electropop #Emanuel Gat #Enikő Nagy #Ferenc Liszt #Ferenc Snétberger #Festetics Palace #Fülöp Ránki #Gábor Goda #Georg Anton Benda #GoGo Penguin #Hungarian Radio Orchestras #jabot #Jan Dismas Zelenka #János Ács #János Bojti #János Kovács #jazz #Ji #Josef Antonín Štěpán #Joseph Calleja #Judith Hill #Khovanschchina #Kirill Gerstein #Kodály Philharmonics #Kristóf Baráti #LEJ #Liszt #Liszt Academy Symphonic Orchestra #Mariinsky #Michelangelo #Mōrk #Müpa #Museum of Fine Arts Budapest #Mussorgsky #National Dance Theatre #opera #Philharmonia Chor Stuttgart #POKET #press conference #Russia #Russian #Sándor Kányádi #Sztalker Csoport #Tchaikovsky #Teodóra Bán #Tevje #The Gate of Wind #Trafó #Urania #Valery Gergiev

Budapest opens festival season in Europe – 39. Spring Festival launches on 5 April

BSF 2019 – #THISISMYPLACE This year again, 39-year-old Budapest Spring Festival offers its usual huge amount and diversity of programmes and venues, from 5 to 22 April. The main topics are Liszt, Russian culture and the 100-year-old Bauhaus. After we attended the press conference in the new main hall of...
Branford Marsalis: Playing with Sting for four years was a great experience
#Branford Marsalis #Enikő Nagy #jazz #jazz quartet #Kenny Kirkland #Müpa #Sting

Branford Marsalis: Playing with Sting for four years was a great experience

Branford Marsalis returns to Budapest, Müpa, 5 March 2019, 7:30 pm Branford Marsalis is one of the most renowned American jazz saxophonists. Apart from his jazz quartett, he also plays together with pop musicians and at classical concerts, and he even appeared in a film by Spike Lee. He played...
Tomoki Sakata: I admire Liszt and Hungary is my all-time favorite
#Brahms #Ferenc Liszt #Liszt #Ludwig van Beethoven #Péter Dobszay #piano #Ririko Takagi #Szeged Symphony Orchestra #Tomoki Sakata

Tomoki Sakata: I admire Liszt and Hungary is my all-time favorite

Péter Dobszay and the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, Müpa, 24 February 2019, 7:30 pm Thinking about he is only 26 and how much he is praised already by masters like Michel Béroff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Vásáry Tamás, Ivan Moravec or Leslie Howard, he still seems to be a quite humble man. Instead...
Here is Erik Satie, maybe the only real hero of the (not so) belle époque
#belle époque #Claude Debussy #composer #dadaism #Erik Satie #france #Müpa #Pannon Filharmonikusok #PFZ #Rosicrucian #Suzanne Valadon

Here is Erik Satie, maybe the only real hero of the (not so) belle époque

Easy Grace – PFZ, Müpa, Béla Bartók Concert Hall, 25 January 2019, 7:30 pm „We should have a music of our own – if possible, without any Sauerkraut.” (Erik Satie) Actually, this is not his real name. He was born as Éric Alfred Leslie Satie in Honfleur, Normandy. As a child,...
The way we play this instrument is like conducting a whole orchester
#Advent #Borbála Sapszon #choir #choral music #christmas #Kodály Zoltán Choir School #László Fassang #Márton Tóth #Monika Melcová #Müpa #organ #Rita Domány

The way we play this instrument is like conducting a whole orchester

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...

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