01. 04. 2022.
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...
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...
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....
02. 04. 2022.
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...
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...
03. 04. 2022.
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...
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...
04. 04. 2022.
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...
05. 04. 2022.
06. 04. 2022.
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...
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...
07. 04. 2022.
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...
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,...
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....
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...
08. 04. 2022.
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
09. 04. 2022.
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...
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...
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...
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...
10. 04. 2022.
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...
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,...
11. 04. 2022.
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...
12. 04. 2022.
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...
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...
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...
13. 04. 2022.
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...
14. 04. 2022.
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...
15. 04. 2022.
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...
16. 04. 2022.
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...
17. 04. 2022.
“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...
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...
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...
21. 04. 2022.
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...
22. 04. 2022.
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...
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...
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...
23. 04. 2022.
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...
24. 04. 2022.
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26. 04. 2022.
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...
27. 04. 2022.
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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...
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...
29. 04. 2022.
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...
30. 04. 2022.
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,...
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...
01. 05. 2022.
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...
03. 05. 2022.
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...
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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