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...
Two brothers, Ágoston and Domokos Lázár have played in two Hungarian bands together (Esti Kornél* and Pegazusok Nem Léteznek**, latter dissolved in 2019). Apart from these, they also formed a duo which has been active for some years now. Last year, their first album was published, which is now followed...
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...
The Müpa virtual advent calendar has a Christmas short film depicting the uplifting power of music and arts. The touching, teary-smiling production shows a special friendship between a girl and a magic concert piano, and it brings the same charming vibes to the festive season that the programmes of Müpa...
By the time of the first of December, all Advent calendars have disappeared from the shops already that I’ve been to. If that happened to you as well, I tell you: don’t feel sad! Chocolate is nice, but there are other alternative ways to get to endorphins. How about a...
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...
Some years ago I was invited to a boy’s birthday party in a Roma community in Budapest. I’ll remember that afternoon forever! After the birthday cake, the party escalated into making music, so joyful and fiery, something I’ve never experienced before, and I still remember how touching, uplifting and even...
Some days ago, the new cimbalom was delivered to the building of Müpa Budapest, made by Ákos Nagy on the request of the institution. The 54-year-old master is the most well-known cimbalom maker of Hungary, although, as he points out, there aren’t as many people of his profession in the...
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...
“Around the millennium, the cleaning lady once peeped in the keyhole and saw my father dancing naked in his study. My father was 42, way too old for something like that to be accepted. She didn’t even find the dance the most peculiar but the lack of music. After that,...
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...
According to Leonard Bernstein, jazz is the contemporary and vivid art which has a full past and a promising future. Although many years have passed he said all this in one of his presentations on the history of music, and we are even in another century, the genre is still...
BarabásiLab: Hidden Patterns - The Language of Network Thinking opened on the 10th October in the Ludwig Museum Budapest. As part of the CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival, the exhibition exposes some main projects of the research lab of Hungarian physicist and network researcher Albert-László Barabási. We can see network...
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...
In the beginning of the 20th century, among other art forms, the revival movement of the avant-garde also reached the domain of music. Lust for experimenting, rebelling, passionately wanting something new are all present in the works created in the era under the influence of this then-new style. József Balog,...
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...
Gábor Gadó is a jazz guitarist who is well known in Europe. His music is a mixture of jazz and classical music. His meditative, philosophical, very intimate art is also a fusion of Hungarian folk music and European co-art motives. The musician who has won many international competitions has lived...
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...
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