Events 2023

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Boris Lurie: Immigrant's NO!box, 1963. Courtesy Boris Lurie Art Foundation

31. 03. 2023.

Boris Lurie & Wolf Vostell: Art after the Shoah

From the late 1950s, Boris Lurie (1924–2008) and Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) adopted a radical approach to the tragedy of the Jewish people. They made the Shoah – Shoah is the Hebrew word for “catastrophe”, synonym to the...

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Semyon Bychkov Photographer: Marco Borggreve
Czech Philharmonic Photographer: Petr Chodura
Seong-Jin Cho Photographer: Harald Hoffmann

31. 03. 2023.

Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic

Russian-born conductor Semyon Bychkov, who has led the Czech Philharmonic for five years and holds an honorary doctorate from the Royal Academy of Music, has a wide repertoire that spans four centuries, being equally at home in opera and the...

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Dénes Várjon and András Keller Photographer: Sándor Benkő

01. 04. 2023.

Dénes Várjon and the Concerto Budapest • 2.1

At this concert of András Keller and the Concerto Budapest, Dénes Várjon will play the solo in two youthful pieces by Bartók, whose chief inspirations were Liszt and Richard Strauss. The Rhapsody was in the repertoire of Bartók the pianist for a...

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Damien Rice Photographer: Blair Alexander

03. 04. 2023.

Damien Rice

Irish singer, songwriter and guitarist Damien Rice is an unmissable live act, with emphasis laid on emotional and musical intensity in each performance. With the unconventional tendency to prefer to walk on stage with no setlist, he has developed a...

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Fácános castle in Fonyód cca. 1570 – reconstruction © Ferenc Kőnig

04. 04. 2023.

Benjamin Eredics: Castles, Warriors, Frontiers – premiere

Generations have enjoyed István Fekete’s 1937 novel, The Testament of the Aga of Koppány, and the film of the same title, which was made thirty years later. These works inspired Benjamin Eredics’s lively, eventful music for dance, in...

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Dénes Várjon Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa Budapest

05. 04. 2023.

Dénes Várjon and the Concerto Budapest • 2.2

We kindly inform our audience that the concert of Dénes Várjon and the Concert Budapest, originally scheduled for 6 April 2023 will be held a day earlier, on 5 April. Tickets already purchased are valid for the new date or may be redeemed online or...

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Nik Bärtsch Photographer: Christian Senti

05. 04. 2023.

Nik Bärtsch Reflecting Bartók

Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch is an exceptional figure of modern jazz, and it is often asked to what extent his hypnotic, meditative music can still be considered jazz. On his latest album, Entendre, he combines elements from a wide variety...

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György Ligeti Photographer: H. J. Kropp / Schott-Promotion

06. 04. 2023.

György Ligeti 100

This exhibition on the life and composing career of György Ligeti, who was born 100 years ago, aims to draw a portrait of both one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century and the era itself. The panels outline the stages in the life of an...

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Klangforum Wien Photographer: Tina Herzl
Péter Eötvös Photographer: Szilvia Csibi / Müpa Budapest

06. 04. 2023.

Péter Eötvös and the Klangforum Wien

Said Péter Eötvös of his own musical thinking and that of György Ligeti: “We emphasize and articulate in the same way, we think in a similar harmonic system, though within that we each have our own system, of course, and the two are...

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Lajos Gulácsy: Dante’s Meeting with Beatrice, cca. 1906 © Hungarian National Gallery

07. 04. 2023.

GULÁCSY

The most extraordinary figure of 20th century Hungarian art, Lajos Gulácsy was a Florentine knight from the Middle Ages, a Venetian marquis, a fop of a rococo cavalier, an ascetic monk, a spiritualist magician, inventing ever new names to bear...

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György Vashegyi Photographer: Gábor Kotschy
The Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir Photographer: Attila Nagy / Müpa Budapest

07. 04. 2023.

György Vashegyi with the Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was one of the most renowned musicians of his time, with Johann Sebastian Bach among his admirers. Composed in 1727, his Passion – Jesus as the Good Shepherd, Who Suffers and Dies for the Lost Sheep – is one of...

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Benjamin Appl
Gabetta Consort Photographer: Jacopo Grassi
Andrés Gabetta

08. 04. 2023.

Benjamin Appl and the Gabetta Consort

The Gabetta Consort brings a magnificent Bach programme to the Bartók Spring. The Swiss ensemble, which specializes in baroque music, was founded in 2019. Its leader, violinist Andrés Gabetta, carries on the approach he has taken in Cappella Gabetta...

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Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: His Cross Blossomed Photographer: Gábor Valuska / Müpa Budapest
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: His Cross Blossomed Photographer: Gábor Valuska / Müpa Budapest
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: His Cross Blossomed Photographer: Gábor Valuska / Müpa Budapest

09. 04. 2023.

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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Muzsikás Photographer: Béla Kása

10. 04. 2023.

Muzsikás Day

Muzsikás is one of the most important formations of the dance house movement that started half a century ago. We now know that folk music and folk dance became a source of communal experience, the excitement of which had an impact far beyond the...

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Sara Baras: Alma (Soul) Photographer: Sofia Wittert
Sara Baras: Alma (Soul) Photographer: Sofia Wittert
Sara Baras: Alma (Soul) Photographer: Sofia Wittert
Sara Baras: Alma (Soul) Photographer: Sofia Wittert
Sara Baras: Alma (Soul) Photographer: Sofia Wittert

10. 04. 2023.

Sara Baras: Alma (Soul)

Considered one of the greatest flamenco dancers of all time, Sara Baras has received countless awards and honours over her three-decade career. In 1998, she created the ensemble that allowed her to fully realize her choreographic and directorial...

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Muzsikás Photographer: Tamás Opitz

10. 04. 2023.

Muzsikás 50

In the spring of 1973, three young men, Mihály Sipos, a mathematician, Dániel Hamar, a geophysicist, and Sándor Csoóri Jr, who was still a student, decided to start a band on the model of old Hungarian peasant string bands, where the solo violin was...

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Sara Baras: Alma (Soul) Photographer: Sofia Wittert
Sara Baras: Alma (Soul) Photographer: Sofia Wittert
Sara Baras: Alma (Soul) Photographer: Sofia Wittert
Sara Baras: Alma (Soul) Photographer: Sofia Wittert
Sara Baras: Alma (Soul) Photographer: Sofia Wittert

11. 04. 2023.

Sara Baras: Alma (Soul)

Considered one of the greatest flamenco dancers of all time, Sara Baras has received countless awards and honours over her three-decade career. In 1998, she created the ensemble that allowed her to fully realize her choreographic and directorial...

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Budafok Dohnanyi Orchestra

12. 04. 2023.

Doubt and Seeking – After The Tragedy of Man

The works at this evening of the Budafok Dohnanyi Orchestra concern themselves with the ways of the world, man’s search for directions, the phenomenon and significance of the Luciferian spirit. The programme includes the symphonic piece...

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Mazaher

12. 04. 2023.

Mazaher

In keeping with the spirit of Zar, women play the main role in the Egyptian band Mazaher: Um Sameh, Um Hassan and Nour El Sabah are among the last performers of the genre. An ancient tradition dating back centuries, Zar is a ritual music that helps...

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Budapest Ritmo Photographer: Lili Chripko

12. 04. 2023.

Budapest Ritmo

Budapest Ritmo, one of the most important world music festivals in Central Europe, will bring the best of the scene back to the heart of the Hungarian capital in 2023. Between 12 and 15 April, this festival of explorations will open up a world of...

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Zarina Prvasevda Photographer: Ivana Batev
Amaro Duho
BudaPesme Photographer: Márton Bolyki
Ephemere Photographer: Tamás Hatházi
Jazzanitza Photographer: Borislav Petrov
Koszika Photographer: Zoltán Rab

13. 04. 2023.

Budapest Ritmo

As is by now established custom, Budapest Ritmo begins by offering the stage to up and coming artists from Hungary and its region. The showcase day at Szimpla gives a free sample of six bands at the beginning of their career, and the doorstep to...

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Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka: Pilgrimage to the Cedars in Lebanon, 1907 © Museum of Fine Arts

14. 04. 2023.

Csontváry 170

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, one of the most original and best-known artists in the history of Hungarian painting, was born 170 years ago. The Museum of Fine Arts and the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs have exceptionally rich collections of his...

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Budapest Ritmo Conference Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa Budapest

14. 04. 2023.

Budapest Ritmo Conference

Budapest Ritmo, one of the most important world music festivals in Central Europe, will bring the best of the scene back to the heart of the Hungarian capital in 2023. In addition to the concerts, Ritmo is also an opportunity for networking and...

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Emilíana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra Photographer: Athos Burez
Tamikrest
DAGADANA Photographer: P. D. Kosmowska
Vienna Acoustic Diaries

14. 04. 2023.

Budapest Ritmo

Friday’s journey of discovery is star-studded, featuring Icelandic phenomenon Emilíana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra and dignitaries of Tuareg desert-rock Tamikrest. Enjoy a soundtrack of quirky charm by Emilíana and her avantgarde...

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Tamikrest Photographer: Peter Braatz

14. 04. 2023.

Tamikrest

Personal shots from the Sahara, where machine guns have muted the music, interspersed with concert footage from Europe’s stages – the world of Tamikrest in a few images. Director Peter Braats met the band in Bamako in 2010, and was fully...

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Дeva Photographer: Martin Wanda
Uljana Quartet Photographer: Gyula Bezzeg

14. 04. 2023.

Uljana Quartet x Anna Korom x Flóra Fecske // Deva: In Lumine

A family saga centering on women, told through song: co-created by Uljana Quartet, director Anna Korom and cinematographer Flóra Fecske, this atmospheric piece was one of last year’s Ritmo highlights. The story unfolds as the band play,...

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VENI Photographer: Szilárd Szil

14. 04. 2023.

Ritmo 2023 premiere: Again and Again

VENI’s mix of folk songs, jazz and playful electronica makes her one of the most promising acts on the scene. Marked by Veronika Szász’s velvety voice, it creates a dreamy, mellow and memorable soundscape, lifting the listener a few feet...

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Klapa Ošjak

14. 04. 2023.

Sounds that made us – Klapa

We regret to inform our audience that the screenings of the Sounds that made us – Klapa originally scheduled for 14 and 15 April 2023 has been cancelled due to technical reasons. Thank you for your understanding! Island songs, the heritage of...

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Dániel Csengery: Frau Holle

15. 04. 2023.

Dániel Csengery: Frau Holle – premiere

Dániel Csengery’s work for the stage was an award-winner of Müpa Budapest’s 2020 Composition Competition, in the children’s opera category. The piece is based on the well-known fairy tale, and the composer, whose work for theatre...

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Kollár-Klemencz Chamber Orchestra Photographer: Róbert László Bácsi
Corina Sîrghi & Taraful Jean Americanu Photographer: Ioana Cîrlig
Monsieur Doumani
Óperentzia
Fanfara Station Photographer: Edo Florio Di Grazia
Sounds and Stories from Ruhnu Island

15. 04. 2023.

Budapest Ritmo

For those who venture further, Saturday’s lineup caters unique cooperations, Catalan jazz, and Cuban a cappella. Dubbed the voice-only version of Buena Vista, Vocal Sampling present rock ballads and Cuban classics a cappella, and make you sing...

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Budapest Ritmo Conference Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa Budapest

15. 04. 2023.

Budapest Ritmo Conference

Budapest Ritmo, one of the most important world music festivals in Central Europe, will bring the best of the scene back to the heart of the Hungarian capital in 2023. In addition to the concerts, Ritmo is also an opportunity for networking and...

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VENI Photographer: Szilárd Szil

15. 04. 2023.

Ritmo 2023 premiere: Again and Again

VENI’s mix of folk songs, jazz and playful electronica makes her one of the most promising acts on the scene. Marked by Veronika Szász’s velvety voice, it creates a dreamy, mellow and memorable soundscape, lifting the listener a few feet...

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Klapa Ošjak

15. 04. 2023.

Sounds that made us – Klapa

We regret to inform our audience that the screenings of the Sounds that made us – Klapa originally scheduled for 14 and 15 April 2023 has been cancelled due to technical reasons. Thank you for your understanding! Island songs, the heritage of...

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Taarka

15. 04. 2023.

Taarka

The first ever film in Seto – an ethnic minority of Southeast Estonia – recounts the legend of Hilana Taarka. Born to poverty in 1856, she always stood out and gained fame by the power of her singing – but never won the love of her...

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The Female Voice of Iran

15. 04. 2023.

The Female Voice of Iran

Singing can be an act of courage, as the women of Iran know well. Public solo singing for women has been prohibited since 1979 in a country of immeasurably rich and diverse tradition. Andreas Rochholl, Yalda Yazdani and Sebastian Leitner set out to...

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Cesária Évora Photographer: Simon Scheller

15. 04. 2023.

Cesária Évora

An intimate portrait with unseen archival footage of the one and only Cesária Évora. Follow her unique rise from abject poverty to international stardom, and her unflinching charm and integrity glowing even brighter. The doting documentary by Ana...

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EELS Photographer: Gus Black

15. 04. 2023.

EELS

Mark Oliver Everett and EELS, the band he founded in 1991, released Extreme Witchcraft, their latest, fourteenth studio album in 2022. After more than twenty years, the group could work again with John Parish, with whom they once recorded the highly...

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Dániel Csengery: Frau Holle

16. 04. 2023.

Dániel Csengery: Frau Holle

Dániel Csengery’s work for the stage was an award-winner of Müpa Budapest’s 2020 Composition Competition, in the children’s opera category. The piece is based on the well-known fairy tale, and the composer, whose work for theatre...

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Dániel Csengery: Holle anyó (Frau Holle)

16. 04. 2023.

Dániel Csengery: Frau Holle

Dániel Csengery’s work for the stage was an award-winner of Müpa Budapest’s 2020 Composition Competition, in the children’s opera category. The piece is based on the well-known fairy tale, and the composer, whose work for theatre...

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Philharmonia Orchestra Photographer: Luca Migliore
Santtu-Matias Rouvali Photographer: Catherine Garcia
Kristóf Baráti Photographer: Szilvia Csibi / Müpa Budapest

16. 04. 2023.

Kristóf Baráti and the Philharmonia Orchestra

Finnish maestro Santtu-Matias Rouvali is chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, and began his second year as principal conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in the 2022–2023 season,...

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