“We have never seen anything like that before - a Hungarian institution awarding so many Hungarian composers in so many categories.” This is how Gyula Fekete, lecturer and head of department at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, characterises the composing competition of the Müpa. It really operates with astonishingly...
Awards are always huge milestones in a profession. This Christmas, the creative and media industry gave a great feedback to the Müpa: they are on the best way with their marketing strategy. In a book I’ve recently read, there is a professor of legal studies who hides his certificates and...
In 2020 we had to let a lot go; music lovers were very sad when they found out that the Wagner Days would be cancelled as well. Since 2006, it is a series of events that attracts many fans from Budapest and abroad to be absorbed by the world of...
Great opera singers of the world come to Hungary regularly. Mostly to Budapest, but sometimes also to the Szeged Open-Air Festival or the Miskolc Opera Festival. In the capital, their preferred venue used to be the State Opera or the Erkel Theatre, but nowadays it is rather the Müpa. Mario...
Müpa has been home for classical and popular music concerts, operas and other cultural programmes since 2005. Lately, the Müpa Home platform has become more and more important, making it possible to rewatch concert videos and follow live streams from our homes. Who are there in the team working on...
This year, advent has had its own advent - after such a somber year, now we’re clinging on every small thing, and we even wait for the waiting phase. When I’m walking in the street for my daily one health walk, I see Christmas lights on houses and trees, there...
Concert hall operators have just as a hard time these days as the audience. It cannot even be predicted when they can open their doors again. But on a gloomy Tuesday afternoon in late November there was still some joy present in the Müpa. The new cimbalom purchased by the...
The last few months were so weird. Like some hybrid species from mythology, there were pandemic restrictions and there weren’t because “economy has to work”, and economy worked and didn’t work because “the virus has to be stopped”. Until recently, it seemed like even theatre plays, concerts and other mass...
Kálmán Oláh, pianist and composer, has a concert in the Müpa to celebrate his 50. birthday. For Müpa, it is also a celebration of its 15. anniversary, so they requested a special piece from Kálmán Oláh, which will be played here for the first time: its title is Return to...
Is there any non-native speaker in English who never confused the words ‘flash’ and ‘flesh’? I don’t think so. Seeing the trailer of an upcoming show in the Trafó by Franck Vigroux and the CIE d'Autres Cordes, I constantly had to remind myself that the title is ‘flesh’, implying something...
Solus Amor (‘only love’) is the third part of a trilogy of the Recirquel that will be played in the Müpa for the first time between the 15th and 18th of October. By the time Non Solus was made, nobody knew that there would be two more, and with My...
The Yellow Sofa, a single-act chamber opera, will be performed the very first time in Hungary on the 18th of October 2020 in the University of Music Budapest. The novella of the greatest writer of Portuguese Realism had a long and adventurous way to go from its writing to the...
In commemoration of Annie Fischer, the internationally renowned pianist, a two-part concert will be held on the 16th of October 2020 in the Inner City Parish Church in Pest and the Három Holló (Three Ravens) Café. There will be works of six female componists, with the first part only consisting...
According to some theories, the number 75 is an angelic combination, a reference of how something will change for us soon, bringing us to reach a goal and enrich our life. This magical number is connected to the concert on 23th September, 7:30 pm, by the Miskolc Symphonic Orchestra, part...
The 29th CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival is going to launch on the 9th of October. At a recent press conference, the organisers released the programme and the details. The 17-day-long series of all art event will include many genres in many different places in the capital city of Hungary....
It has been a hot topic these days how much artists have lost due to the mayhem caused by the coronavirus. Some people avoid the whole topic, others process it by talking about their problems. István Várdai chooses a completely different way though. The cellist who lived a quite active...
Secundino Hernández, who lives and works in Madrid, started his international gallery-déput with his eponymous exhibitions following a Residency at Krinzinger Projekte in 2007. Just five years later, he made his breakthrough in the international art scene by selling six works to the Rubell Family Collection at a presentation at...
Müpa started a drive-in cinema series to provide music programmes to the audience until the autumn reopening. Between the 1st and 25th of July, from Wednesday to Sunday, popular and classical music bands play in the Festival Theatre of the Müpa, which can be followed on a big screen from...
Audience can enjoy Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart or the Four Seasons by Vivaldi from their cars in the new “Drive-in Cinema” organised by Müpa. The first concert happened yesterday and had the title A little summer music, bringing summer vibes with well-known classical pieces. Singers Zsófia Nagy, Eszter Zemlényi,...
There is an American couple who come to the Müpa every year in fabulous clothes. I imagine them putting on their lovely clothes and sitting in front of a screen on 18 June. There might be some groups watching the broadcasts together as well, in someone’s garden, surrounded by picnic...
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