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Bach: The Cross Cantatas
Source: Hungarian State Opera

03. 04. 2021.

Bach: Christian Cantatas – premiere

We regret to inform our audience that the premiere of Bach: Christian Cantatas has been cancelled due to the current state of the pandemic. Thank you for your understanding! The Christian Cantatas is a production that brings together three cantatas...

Bach: The Cross Cantatas
Source: Hungarian State Opera

05. 04. 2021.

Bach: Christian Cantatas

We regret to inform our audience that the performance entitled Bach: Christian Cantatas has been cancelled due to the current state of the pandemic. Thank you for your understanding! The Christian Cantatas is a production that brings together three...

György Kurtág
Photographer: János Posztós

07. 04. 2021.

György Kurtág: Fin de partie (Endgame) – Hungarian premiere

We regret to inform our audience that the Hungarian premiere of György Kurtág: Fin de partie (Endgame) has been cancelled due to the current state of the pandemic. Thank you for your understanding! According to a critic, Kurtág’s Fin de partie...

Riccardo Chailly
Photographer: Gert Mothes / DECCA

07. 05. 2021.

Riccardo Chailly and the Filarmonica della Scala

The ensemble of the Filarmonica della Scala was formed in 1982 by musicians of the opera orchestra of Milan’s famous La Scala, on the encouragement of Claudio Abbado. Carlo Maria Giulini and Riccardo Muti were the formative conductors of the...

René Jacobs
Photographer: Molina Visuals

08. 05. 2021.

René Jacobs and the Kammerorchester Basel

“I set to music with all the power at my disposal the highly respected hymn called Stabat Mater, and I sent my music to the great and world-famous Hasse out of the desire that if I had failed adequately to express the most valuable words, this...

Korossy Quartet
Photographer: Ágnes Szűcs

09. 05. 2021.

Concert by Students of the Liszt Academy

Particularly challenging chamber pieces by Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály will be performed by Junior Prima Prize-winning artists, Gergely Devich (cello), Gergely Kovács and Krisztián Kocsis (piano), Korossy Quartet, a group that was formed recently...

Károly Cserepes
Photographer: Bálint Hrotkó / Müpa

10. 05. 2021.

Budapest Ritmo

Venues with a unique atmosphere come to life thanks to music: Budapest Ritmo is in the city again. Concerts filmed on special Budapest locations and in Akvárium Klub bring to you world music, as well as jazz, electronica, and even metal. For years,...

Dresch String Quartet
Photographer: András Hajdú M.

11. 05. 2021.

Budapest Ritmo

Venues with a unique atmosphere come to life thanks to music: Budapest Ritmo is in the city again. Concerts filmed on special Budapest locations and in Akvárium Klub bring to you world music, as well as jazz, electronica, and even metal. For years,...

Odd ID
Photographer: Krisztina Bilák

12. 05. 2021.

Budapest Ritmo

Venues with a unique atmosphere come to life thanks to music: Budapest Ritmo is in the city again. Concerts filmed on special Budapest locations and in Akvárium Klub bring to you world music, as well as jazz, electronica, and even metal. For years,...

GisL / Eszter Adria Herkovics
Photographer: János Lakatos

13. 05. 2021.

Félix Lajkó and the Ballet Company of Győr

A masterpiece of 19th-century Romantic ballet, whose popularity is unabated, Giselle established a style with a title role that is every ballerina’s dream. The piece, which had its premiere in 1841, conquered the world with Adolphe...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Photographer: Sim Canetty-Clarke

14. 05. 2021.

John Eliot Gardiner with the English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir

Thirteen years after a thrilling performance, John Eliot Gardiner returns with the St John Passion, this time to the virtual concert hall of Bartók Spring. If he is the doyen of the early music movement, the world-famous conductor continues to be...

Scene from the silent film, Man of Gold
Source: Hungarian National Film Institute – Film Archive

15. 05. 2021.

Man of Gold – world premiere

Bence Farkas’s work was an award-winner of Müpa Budapest’s autumn competition for composers, in the film music category. Alexander Korda’s classic of cinematic history presents a special challenge to the modern composer of...

Aurevoir.
Photographer: János Fehér

16. 05. 2021.

Aurevoir.

Aurevoir. is an ethno-beat band, formed by young people living in and around Zsámbék. From the beginning (2015), they sought not to confine themselves or their music to strictly defined genres. They blend the folk music of the Carpathian Basin with...

Vasily Petrenko
Photographer: Svetlana Tarlova

17. 05. 2021.

Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

When Vasily Petrenko, Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the European Union Youth Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia, was recently named Music...

Sabine Devieilhe
Photographer: Jean-Baptiste Millot / Parlophone Records

18. 05. 2021.

An Evening of Mozart

Pianist Mihály Berecz has for years been interested in performing the 18th and 19th century repertoire on fortepiano. “György Vashegyi and Malcolm Bilson encouraged me to explore the question, and I have already had the opportunity to play...

Charlie
Photographer: Szilvia Csibi / Müpa

19. 05. 2021.

Charlie

As the lead singer of Decca, Olympia and Generál, Charlie was a major figure of the heroic age of Hungarian beat music and rock, who also toured internationally with Afriaca and Pannónia Express. In the 1980s, there was a fair chance you had to go...

Kelemen Quartet
Photographer: Ora Hasenfratz

20. 05. 2021.

Kelemen Quartet • 2.1

After a break of nearly three years, Kelemen Quartet takes to the stage in a new form, though Barnabás Kelemen and Katalin Kokas did not turn their backs on the genre in recent times. They formed ad hoc ensembles with such great musicians as Vilde...

Makám
Photographer: Marcell Krulik

20. 05. 2021.

Makám: Mamilula

Over its history of three decades, Makám never stopped renewing itself: its songs have combined the folk music of different ethnicities, contemporary music and jazz in countless ways, creating harmonious wholes that allowed tradition and modernity,...

Hungarian National Dance Ensemble: The Faithless Wife
Photographer: Levente Váradi

21. 05. 2021.

Hungarian National Dance Ensemble: The Faithless Wife – premiere

This production of the Hungarian National Dance Ensemble and Honvéd Male Choir recounts the strange story of a woman punished with death for infidelity, one of the most mysterious of old Hungarian ballads, a tale of cruel beauty and tragedy that...

Bagossy Brothers Company
Photographer: sinco

22. 05. 2021.

Bagossy Brothers Company

The band was founded in Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni, Romania), in 2013. In their first two years, they toured Transylvania’s towns and festivals, and their songs were featured on Hungarian-speaking radio stations in Romania and elsewhere....

Kelemen Quartet
Photographer: Ora Hasenfratz

23. 05. 2021.

Kelemen Quartet • 2.2

After a break of nearly three years, Kelemen Quartet takes to the stage in a new form, though Barnabás Kelemen and Katalin Kokas did not turn their backs on the genre in recent times. They formed ad hoc ensembles with such great musicians as Vilde...

Bartók: The Wooden Prince – reherseal
Photographer: János Lakatos

24. 05. 2021.

An Evening of Liszt and Bartók

During the first part of their show, the Szent István Philharmonic will perform Ferenc Liszt’s late tone poem, From the Cradle to the Grave, a symphonic work with a special atmosphere, as well as his Danse Macabre, one of the most virtuosic...

Szeged Contemporary Ballet
Photographer: János Lakatos

26. 05. 2021.

An Evening of Bartók

The content and form of Concerto, the symphonic work Béla Bartók wrote in the United States, cannot be separated from his experience, his mood, in 1943, prior to the composition: he was constantly ill, was tormented by homesickness, and was worried...

Ballet Pécs: Vasarely Etudes
Photographer: Betti Borbás

28. 05. 2021.

Ballet Pécs: Vasarely Etudes – premiere

This production of Ballet Pécs, which celebrates its 60th anniversary, was inspired by the works of Victor Vasarely, who was born 115 years ago. Itself a part of the city’s fabric, the company attached great importance to evoking...