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The Hindemith, Jenő Takács and Béla Bartók at the Pyramid of Djoser (1932)
Photographer: Jenő Takács

01. 04. 2022.

Bartók, a Natural Scientist of Folklore

Bartók became an elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1935 due to his scholarly achievement. Apart from his voluminous multi-ethnic collections, his more than a hundred shorter writings on the significance of folk music and...

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01. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA – premiere

Recirquel Budapest, which has become one of the world’s leading contemporary circus companies, was founded by director and choreographer Bence Vági in 2012. Their performances fusing contemporary circus, dance and theatre, have captivated...

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Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Photographer: Simon Pauly

Vladimir Jurowski
Photographer: Niemeyer Robert

01. 04. 2022.

Julia Fischer (violin) and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Julia Fischer is an internationally celebrated violinist, a versatile musician who also excels as a concert pianist, chamber musician and educator. She took up the violin at age three, and soon thereafter started her piano studies with her mother....

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02. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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02. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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02. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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Branford Marsalis
Photographer: Eric Ryan Anderson

02. 04. 2022.

Branford Marsalis and Friends

Branford Marsalis and his quartet return to Müpa Budapest three years after their last performance here. Their programme will be based on the material of their 2019 album, The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul, but the world-famous American...

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02. 04. 2022.

WorldService Project

Founded over a decade ago and now widely recognized, WorldService Project adds a unique, individual spot of colour to the palette of British jazz. Their music is both loud as a cannon and rich in groovy and funky details; it is equally likely to...

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02. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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03. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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03. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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Attila Egerházi
Photographer: Csaba Mészáros

03. 04. 2022.

Royal Ballet Fehérvár: Parade – premiere

The legendary Boban Marković and his orchestra released their 2019 record, Mrak (Darkness) under a Hungarian label that specializes in world and folk music. The material is both traditional and current, familiar and alien, loud and restrained. The...

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03. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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03. 04. 2022.

Bluebeard

For over a decade, Péter Sárik and his trio have worked towards making difficult genres and composers, like jazz and Béla Bartók, more accessible for audiences. “I think it is extremely important to preserve the work of perhaps the most...

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03. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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04. 04. 2022.

Royal Ballet Fehérvár: Parade

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04. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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04. 04. 2022.

EELS

We regret to inform our audience that the EELS concert originally scheduled for 4 April, 2022 has been cancelled. Tickets already purchased may be redeemed online or at the main ticket offices of Müpa Budapest until 4 May, 2022. Thank you for your...

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04. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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05. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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05. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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06. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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06. 04. 2022.

Ensemble Mini

Founded in 2010, this “mini orchestra” is the brainchild of British conductor Joolz Gale. He invited such young musicians from Germany’s leading symphony orchestras to join who felt ready to try their hands at the arrangements of...

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Jaimie Branch
Photographer: Abdesslam Mirdass

06. 04. 2022.

Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die

American trumpeter and singer Jaimie Branch is a standard-bearer of what is probably the most progressive jazz label and collective in the New World, International Anthem. This “suburban lady” in a tracksuit and baseball cap and her band...

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06. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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Sophie Lukacs
Photographer: Christiana Alonso

07. 04. 2022.

Budapest Ritmo

Budapest Ritmo is one of the most important world music festivals in Europe, bringing you again real world stars, one of a kind experiences, unique concerts and breathtaking music films in 2022. From the milieu of Mali music through heart-rending...

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07. 04. 2022.

Extended Present

Ludwig Museum’s exhibition takes a look at the state of transitoriness. It captures the moment in the process in which the present time dimension expands and the characteristics and internal events of the state can be observed closely,...

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07. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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Anthony Roth Costanzo
Photographer: Matthew Placek

György Vashegyi
Photographer: Attila Nagy / Müpa

Orfeo Orchestra & Purcell Choir
Photographer: Attila Nagy / Müpa

07. 04. 2022.

Anthony Roth Costanzo (voice) and the Orfeo Orchestra

Musical America’s 2019 Vocalist of the Year, Anthony Roth Costanzo is one of today’s most compelling performing artists. The countertenor is as much at home in the world of contemporary music as in the baroque and classical repertoire....

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Várjon Dénes
Photographer: Misi Kondella / Liszt Academy

07. 04. 2022.

Dénes Várjon (piano) and the Concerto Budapest • 2.1

More than three decades passed between one of the first important orchestral works of Bartók’s first creative period and Piano Concerto No. 3, which he wrote towards the end of his life. Along with the fundamental changes in Bartók’s...

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07. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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08. 04. 2022.

Budapest Ritmo Conference

Budapest Ritmo is also an opportunity for networking and sharing ideas: this year, it will again host an international music industry conference for professionals. From the music strategy of the European Capitals of Culture to the intersection of...

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Amadou & Mariam
Photographer: Julio Bandit

Sutari
Photographer: Piotr Spigiel Photography

08. 04. 2022.

Budapest Ritmo

On the second day of Budapest Ritmo, the first performer of the evening will be Besh o droM, one of the most successful bands in Hungarian world music, followed by world stars such as the giants of Malian music, Amadou & Mariam, and Damir...

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08. 04. 2022.

María Pagés: Una oda al tiempo (An Ode to Time)

“Everyone knows that the genius of dance lives in María Pagés – there is no doubt about that. But she’s so much more than that: when she dances, she moves everything around her, and after her performance, neither Heaven nor Earth...

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Secret Off_Man / Anibal dos Santos
Photographer: Katalin Bobál

08. 04. 2022.

Company FrenÁk: Secret Off_Man – premiere

Celebrating a career of 40 years, Pál Frenák prepares a production for the Bartók Spring in which he will evoke iconic elements of his œuvre. FrenÁk adheres to the strategy of asking questions, probing this time the secrets that make the...

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08. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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Philippe Herreweghe
Photographer: Wouter Maeckelberghe

08. 04. 2022.

Collegium Vocale Gent

Collegium Vocale Gent, the world-famous Belgian ensemble that was formed half a century ago, and its founding conductor, Philippe Herreweghe, are best known for the performance of baroque music. It is probably no exaggeration that the sound they...

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Pure Source
Photographer: Szilvia Csibi / Müpa

08. 04. 2022.

Pure Source

Béla Bartók is the most important figure in Hungarian music literature. His folk music collections were indispensable for the following generations’ efforts to preserve the values of Hungarian culture: the melodies he recorded continue to...

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08. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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Hieronymus Bosch: Last Judgement (middle panel, detail), cca 1515 © Musea Brugge
Photographer: Dominique Provost

09. 04. 2022.

Between Heaven and Hell: The Enigmatic World of Hieronymus Bosch

More than five centuries after his death, the incomparable art of Hieronymus Bosch is still replete with countless unresolved mysteries. By exhibiting almost ninety carefully selected works – including ten autograph paintings, almost half of...

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09. 04. 2022.

Budapest Ritmo

On the third day of Budapest Ritmo, fusion genres and deep emotions will dominate the stages of the Aquarium Club. The evening will open with Divanhana, an orchestra of Balkan sevdah songs and upbeat rhythms. On Saturday you can also be amazed by...

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09. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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09. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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09. 04. 2022.

Company FrenÁk: Secret Off_Man

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09. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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09. 04. 2022.

Bartók 1914

Béla Bartók set off for Maros–Torda County in April 1914, before the outbreak of the First World War, on what was to be the composer’s last great trip to collect folk music in Transylvania. The war and its aftermath swept away the state...

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09. 04. 2022.

Play-off

The story of Play-off began in 2011, at the Margó Literary Festival, when poets and songwriters began to collaborate. The first show was followed by others, and then the contributors formed a concerting band, which was hell-bent on finding out what...

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09. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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10. 04. 2022.

Budapest Ritmo

The focus of the last day of Budapest Ritmo is the intersection of film and music: we present the films of the winners of the Budapest Ritmo 2022 Film Competition. Дeva, a leading figure of the new wave of Hungarian folk, together with Bence...

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10. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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10. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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10. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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10. 04. 2022.

Uri Caine: Bartók Project

American composer and pianist Uri Caine is a universal musician, who performs in a variety of formations, with both jazz and classical musicians. As a composer, he is deeply committed to such greats of music history as Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Verdi,...

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10. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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11. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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11. 04. 2022.

Signum Saxophone Quartet

The four musicians founded the Signum Saxophone Quartet in Cologne in 2006. Paris and Vienna were among the places where they studied, and such ensembles and artists inspired their understanding of chamber music as the Quatuor Ébène, Artemis...

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11. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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Tibor Réz-Diamant: Tiller girls in the revue film, Mulató Párizs, 1927 © National Széchényi Library

12. 04. 2022.

Art Deco Budapest

The exhibition focuses on Hungarian Art Deco visual culture, especially poster art and modern metropolitan life, by presenting posters, furniture, costumes, films, and even urban spaces to give a comprehensive picture of the distinctive visual...

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Péter Eötvös
Photographer: Szilvia Csibi / Müpa Budapest

Hungrian National Philharmonic
Photographer: Szilvia Csibi / Müpa Budapest

12. 04. 2022.

Péter Eötvös: Sleepless – Hungarian premiere

Commissioned by the Berlin Staatsoper and based on the first novella in Jon Fosse’s Trilogy, the piece is an “opera ballad, whose protagonists are two teenagers who expect a child,” said Péter Eötvös. “But they have nothing...

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12. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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12. 04. 2022.

Dénes Várjon (piano) and the Concerto Budapest • 2.2

Bartók drew on his earlier piano works, including emblematic pieces such as An Evening in the Village and Slightly Tipsy, for the orchestral work, Hungarian Pictures, which will be the first to be performed at the concert of Dénes Várjon, András...

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12. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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Batsheva Dance Company: THREE
Photographer: Ascaf

13. 04. 2022.

Batsheva Ensemble: THREE

We regret to inform our audience that the Batsheva Ensemble’s performance, THREE, originally scheduled for 13 April, 2022 has been cancelled. Tickets already purchased may be redeemed online or at the main ticket offices of Müpa Budapest until...

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13. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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13. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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14. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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David Fray
Photographer: James Bort / Warner Classics

Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Photographer: Sándor Szívós

14. 04. 2022.

David Fray (piano) and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

This season sees French pianist David Fray appear in concert with Cecilia Bartoli and Swedish baritone Peter Mattei, among others, as well as with ensembles including the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Orchestre national du Capitole de...

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14. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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15. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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15. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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15. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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Dániel Villányi
Photographer: Attila Kleb

15. 04. 2022.

Dániel Villányi’s Piano Recital

The young pianist studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv. He earned his master’s degree in Weimar. He has appeared in a number of highly...

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15. 04. 2022.

Recirquel Budapest: IMA

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Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Photographer: Foppe Schut

16. 04. 2022.

Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Dutch harpsichordist, organist, musicologist and conductor Ton Koopman has been a seminal figure of early music. At age 35 he established the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and a little over a decade later the Amsterdam Baroque Choir. The repertoire...

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17. 04. 2022.

Wagner: Parsifal

“The most profound symbol ever conceived as the substance of the perceptible spiritual core of religion,” said Wagner of the Holy Grail. Parsifal, whose character he knew from Wolfram von Eschenbach’s epic poem, was a lifelong...

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17. 04. 2022.

Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: His Cross Blossomed

The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble’s dance production for the Easter holiday relies as much on the liturgies of the different denominations as on the ancient peasant customs and songs of regions in the Carpathian Basin that lie at great...

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17. 04. 2022.

Circa: Sacre

The Australian Circa is a contemporary circus company with worldwide renown. It was founded in 2004, and has since performed in 40 countries, for over 1.5 million people. Their vibrant, thrilling shows fuse movement, dance, acrobatics and circus...

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21. 04. 2022.

Hungarian National Dance Ensemble: The Faithless Wife

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

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Bohemian Betyars
Photographer: Krisztina Kiss

22. 04. 2022.

Ritmo PIKNIK

For the first time in its history, the Ritmo will welcome world music lovers not only in Budapest, but also in three cities across the country. In Debrecen, Miskolc and Győr, the Ritmo Piknik offers creative activities for children and families...

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22. 04. 2022.

Ballet Company of Győr: GisL

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...

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Szeged Contemporary Dance Company: Concerto
Photographer: Gábor Valuska / Müpa

22. 04. 2022.

Szeged Contemporary Dance Company: Concerto / The Wild Ones / The Saint

The premiere of Tamás Juronics’s choreography for Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was the closing performance of the 2021 Bartók Spring, with thousands watching the streamed show all over the world. Since then, the ballet has been...

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23. 04. 2022.

Ritmo PIKNIK

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Maxim Vengerov
Photographer: Benjamin Ealovega

23. 04. 2022.

Maxim Vengerov (violin) and the Pannon Philharmonic

Maxim Vengerov, the world-famous violinist and a long-time favourite of Hungarian audiences, will perform in Pécs and Miskolc as a guest of the Pannon Philharmonic. The Grammy Award-winning violinist, who has recorded numerous CDs, has a fantastic...

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24. 04. 2022.

Maxim Vengerov (violin) and the Pannon Philharmonic

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25. 04. 2022.

Ballet Company of Győr: GisL

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26. 04. 2022.

Igudesman & Joo

With their virtuosity, humour, creativity and captivating performances, the world-famous music and comedy duo of Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo have made millions of people keen on classical music, and their performances have been received with...

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27. 04. 2022.

Igudesman & Joo

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28. 04. 2022.

Ballet Pécs: Vasarely Etudes

This production was inspired by the works of Victor Vasarely. Itself a part of the city’s fabric, the company attached great importance to evoking Vasarely’s home town in the performance, so the works of art that inspired the...

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28. 04. 2022.

MIHÁLY, or, the Ghosts of a City

Dreamt up by Zsolt Prieger, this surreal musical-literary performance – or literary DJ set – stems from the idea that Csokonai is not just a mythical figure of the past, but also a person very much of the present: he is the great main...

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29. 04. 2022.

BANDALOOP

Turning the dance floor on its side, the world-famous ensemble has combined body dynamics, complex choreography, and a wide variety of climbing and hanging techniques into a single, harmoniously interconnected form of artistic expression. Working...

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Mihály Dresch
Photographer: Bálint Hrotkó / Müpa

29. 04. 2022.

Ritmo PIKNIK

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Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra
Photographer: András Wlcsek

29. 04. 2022.

Ritmo PIKNIK

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Bognár Szilvia Sextet
Photographer: Kriszta Falus

30. 04. 2022.

Ritmo PIKNIK

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Los Orangutanes
Photographer: Laura Wilhelm

30. 04. 2022.

Ritmo PIKNIK

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30. 04. 2022.

BANDALOOP

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Ohnody / Дeva / Saya Noé / Drimba Cristina

30. 04. 2022.

Ohnody / Дeva / Saya Noé / Cristina Drimba

Four brazenly young and talented singer-songwriters, Ohnody, Дeva, Saya Noé and Cristina Drimba will give a concert in Debrecen as part of the Bartók Spring. The songs are based on personal experiences, and their broad spectrum of emotions,...

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Sergei Krylov
Photographer: Mary Slepkova

30. 04. 2022.

Sergei Krylov (violin) and the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra Debrecen

Sergei Krylov is a celebrated violinist of our time, a regular guest of prestigious concert halls and orchestras. Hungarian audiences have already had a chance to admire the sparkling, vivid musicality, poetic intensity and magical sound of his...

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01. 05. 2022.

Sergei Krylov (violin) and the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra Debrecen

We regret to inform our audience that the concert of Sergei Krylov and the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra Debrecen in Győr, scheduled for 1 May, 2022 has been cancelled due to technical reasons. Tickets already purchased may be redeemed online or at...

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03. 05. 2022.

Hungarian National Dance Ensemble: The Faithless Wife

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Ramón Vargas
Photographer: Lou Valerie Dubuis

03. 05. 2022.

Ramón Vargas (voice) and the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra

Mexican star singer Ramón Vargas was first the guest of the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra in 2017. The world-famous tenor’s concerts now promise to be among the highlights of this year’s Hungarian concert season. The great singer’s...

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03. 05. 2022.

Arturo Sandoval

When ten-time Grammy winner Arturo Sandoval first took to the stage at Müpa Budapest in February 2015, the atmosphere was buzzing. The legendary figure of Latin jazz, who has already shown many sides of his impressive musicality, superior technique...

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