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#Emperor's New Clothes #György Ránki #Győző Nagy #King Pomádé's New Clothes #Müpa #Nóra Fehér #opera

King Pomádé: György Ránki’s children’s opera is a parody of power

Ránki originally wrote King Pomádé as a children’s radio opera in 1950, and three years later adapted it into a full-length stage work.

#contemporary #Jörg Widmann #Müpa #opera #Roland Schimmelpfennig

The Face in the Mirror: two men fall in love with the female clone

Face in the Mirror turns our image of the world upside down: the clone is more human than the person coming from a mother’s womb.

#Anna Rácz #Don Giovanni #Müpa #opera #Péter Kálmán #Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Péter Kálmán: I won’t be the usual Don Giovanni but a wizard

Director András Hábetler and myself are childhood friends, so he tailored the character of Don Giovanni to match my personality.

#Metropolitan #Müpa #opera #Zsuzsanna Deák

Brilliant Metropolitan broadcasts coming to Müpa’s new season too

Broadcasts help us concentrate on the content rather than the externalities: the HD quality makes them almost as good as an opera experience on stage.

#Anna Rácz #covid-19 #gala #Müpa #opera #Péter Kálmán #Rossini

Rossini can always make us smile – interview with bass baritone Péter Kálmán

Péter Kálmán, bass baritone who considers himself a Rossini fan, shared a few things with us about this promising night.

#Dmitri Hvorostovsky #Müpa #Müpa Home #opera

The living memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky will stay with us forever

Dmitri Hvorostovsky lived 55 years, with around 30 constantly on stage. His legacy consists of many albums and videos.

#CAFe Budapest #José Maria de Eça de Queirós #Julian Philips #Müpa #opera #The Yellow Sofa

As if this yellow sofa could talk about marital infidelity!

Godofredo Alves one day finds his business partner having seduced his wife. And not anywhere but exactly on the YELLOW SOFA, which was a gift to her!

Seven videos you have to watch from Müpa’s archives!

Bored with the quarantine already? Here is some great music, dance, literature and fun to cheer you up! Great artists, instruments and genres. Enjoy!

#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

Bryn Terfel was the second artist to get the Queen’s Medal for Music, founded by Elizabeth II, as an approval for an extraordinary musical career.

#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

The Budapest premiere will happen on the 10th of October as part of the CAFe Budapest Contemporary Arts Festival, together with the Neue Oper Wien.

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

Katalin Károlyi mezzosoprano will give the concerts Human Voice 2.1 and 2.2. The repertoire consists of three contemporary pieces of different kinds.

If it is worth showing the audience, I never hesitate – interview with Gábor Hollerung

Gábor Hollerung, conductor of the Ernő Dohnányi Symphonic Orchestra in Budafok, believes that neither romantic nor emotional music can go out of fashion.