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André Kertész: Martinique, 1972, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment © Estate of André Kertész

05. 04. 2024.

Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Capa...

In cooperation with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts presents an exhibition of works by photographers of Hungarian origin who emigrated to the United States. The large-scale event, featuring nearly 30 artists...

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Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: Cinderella Photographer: Alice Blangero
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: Cinderella Photographer: Alice Blangero

05. 04. 2024.

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: Cinderella

Founded in 1985 and rapidly becoming a leading company in the international dance scene, the Monte-Carlo Ballet first performed Cinderella 25 years ago. Since then, the choreography, created on the music of Prokofiev, has been performed around the...

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Júlia Karosi Photographer: Dániel Gaál
Ingrid Jensen Photographer: Jimmy Katz
Kristjan Randalu Photographer: Kaupo Kikkas

05. 04. 2024.

Júlia Karosi | Ingrid Jensen | Kristjan Randalu

This album release concert of three highly individual and boldly experimental musicians, Hungarian singer Júlia Karosi, Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu and Canadian trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, promises to be a special treat. The new album, Inner...

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Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: Cinderella Photographer: Alice Blangero
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: Cinderella Photographer: Alice Blangero

06. 04. 2024.

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: Cinderella

Founded in 1985 and rapidly becoming a leading company in the international dance scene, the Monte-Carlo Ballet first performed Cinderella 25 years ago. Since then, the choreography, created on the music of Prokofiev, has been performed around the...

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Duna Art Ensemble: Székely Gate Photographer: Tamás Végh

06. 04. 2024.

Danube Art Ensemble: Székely Gate – premiere

A Székely gate is a symbol of ancient power, faith, hope, belonging to God, a channel of communication between heaven and earth. Its three posts represent the unity of body, soul and spirit, and its carvings are symbols that render protection, grace...

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Rudolf Buchbinder Photographer: Marco Borggreve
Hungarian National Philharmonic Photographer: Szilvia Csibi

06. 04. 2024.

Rudolf Buchbinder and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra • 2.1

Rudolf Buchbinder is a legendary performer of our time. His career of over 60 years speaks for itself, his playing uniquely blends tradition and innovation, humility towards the works and freedom, authenticity and openness. He is generally agreed to...

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Ryoji Ikeda Photographer: Ryo Mitamura

06. 04. 2024.

Ryoji Ikeda: Ultratronics

Ryoji Ikeda is a leading creator of contemporary electronic music and visual art in Japan. In his work, sound and sight are so closely entwined that viewers/listeners cannot tell whether it is the engineered acoustic processes that generate the...

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Duna Art Ensemble: Székely Gate Photographer: Tamás Végh

07. 04. 2024.

Duna Art Ensemble: Székely Gate

A Székely gate is a symbol of ancient power, faith, hope, belonging to God, a channel of communication between heaven and earth. Its three posts represent the unity of body, soul and spirit, and its carvings are symbols that render protection, grace...

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Rudolf Buchbinder Photographer: Lukas Beck
Hungarian National Philharmonic Photographer: Szilvia Csibi

07. 04. 2024.

Rudolf Buchbinder and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra • 2.2

One day, when the distinguished pianist Friedrich Gulda ran into Rudolf Buchbinder in a hotel lobby, he asked where the other was going. ‘To my concert of Beethoven’s cycle,’ Buchbinder said. Gulda asked him whether he was not...

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Spiritualized Photographer: Sarah Piantadosi

07. 04. 2024.

Spiritualized

Formed by Jason Pierce and other members who split off from Spacemen 3, a pioneer of eighties British noise rock, Spiritualized has been a leading act of new psychedelic rock for over thirty years – and now they are giving a concert in Hungary...

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Söndörgő Photographer: The Orbital Strangers
Kelemen Quartet

08. 04. 2024.

Söndörgő | Kelemen Quartet

At their joint concert, Söndörgő, who specialize in South Slavic melodies and combine the archaic quality of traditional tunes with the energy of rock music, and the Kelemen Quartet, who are hailed in the international press as the most galvanizing...

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József Balog Photographer: László Emmer

08. 04. 2024.

József Balog’s Piano Recital

Csaba Szabó (1936–2003), who hailed from Transylvania, was a versatile composer working in the most diverse genres, including solo piano pieces, which he wrote between 1955 and 1981. József Balog has recently recorded all of the...

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Samara Joy Photographer: Meredith Truax

08. 04. 2024.

Samara Joy

Samara Joy, a multi Grammy Award-winning young jazz singer from New York comes from a family of musicians. Her career took off in 2019 when she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, and since then she has performed with such...

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Margit Anna: Angel, 1968 © Kolozsváry Collection

09. 04. 2024.

When Dolls Speak

It is difficult to classify Margit Anna’s works as belonging to any one artistic movement; a significant part of her œuvre can be best described along the lines of surrealism and expressivism. She created a unique formal idiom that made...

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Pure Source Photographer: Szilvia Csibi / Müpa Budapest
Pure Source Photographer: Szilvia Csibi / Müpa Budapest
Pure Source Photographer: Szilvia Csibi / Müpa Budapest

09. 04. 2024.

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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Company FrenÁk – Eoin Mac Donncha Photographer: Katalin Bobál

10. 04. 2024.

Company Frenák: CrAzy_RunnErs / Parad_Is_E

This production of the FrenÁk Company features a dynamic team, the members of a new generation. The young, creative dancers draw on the energies of their colourful cultural and linguistic differences as they bring a new creative approach to...

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Barbara Hannigan Photographer: Marco Borggreve
Katia & Marielle Labeque Photographer: Ulberto Nicoletti
David Chalmin Photographer: Benjamin Juhel

10. 04. 2024.

Electric Fields

French composer, musician and producer David Chalmin and Bryce Dessner, composer and guitarist of the legendary American rock band The National, produced the record, Electric Fields with the intention of recreating the songs, melodies and poetry of...

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MC Tink

11. 04. 2024.

Day of Hungarian Poetry

Attila József’s birthday, 11 April, was named the Day of Hungarian Poetry in 1964. Over the decades, many efforts have been made to turn this day into an impressive event with a variety of messages. Today, perhaps the ‘unassuming’...

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Aurél Stein

11. 04. 2024.

Hungarians on the Silk Road

The Silk Road, the Eurasian trade route that linked China with the Mediterranean, not only served commerce, but also facilitated the communication of the great civilizations of the East and the West. For more than a millennium from the 2nd century...

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Budapest Ritmo Photographer: Bálint Hirling / Müpa Budapest

11. 04. 2024.

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 2024. Between 11 and 13 April, this festival of explorations will open up a world of...

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Budapest Ritmo Showcase Photographer: Anett Kállai-Tóth / Müpa Budapest

11. 04. 2024.

Budapest Ritmo Showcase

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 Kert gives a free sample of six bands at the beginning of their career, and the doorstep...

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Company FrenÁk – Eoin Mac Donncha Photographer: Katalin Bobál

11. 04. 2024.

Company Frenák: CrAzy_RunnErs / Parad_Is_E

This production of the FrenÁk Company features a dynamic team, the members of a new generation. The young, creative dancers draw on the energies of their colourful cultural and linguistic differences as they bring a new creative approach to...

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Song of Songs

11. 04. 2024.

Song of Songs

Hazanuth, the art of cantorial singing plays a very important role in the Jewish liturgy, as the singer communicates the prayer of the whole community to the Creator, with utmost artistry. Also called shaliach tzibbur, the messenger of the...

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Budapest Ritmo PRO Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa Budapest

12. 04. 2024.

Budapest Ritmo Conference

Budapest Ritmo will again host a conference for the music industry, an opportunity for professionals, artists and music lovers to network and share ideas. For two days, international experts, innovators and practitioners will explore the hottest...

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BCUC
Decolonize Your Mind Society
Gaye Su Akyol

12. 04. 2024.

Budapest Ritmo

Bantu punk will thunder on the second day of Budapest Ritmo, there will be a rush of carnivalesque psychedelia, and ethno jazz will soar freely. Get lost in the Hungarian cultural tradition or be dazzled by the musical idioms of Africa, the Balkans...

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Elis e Tom

12. 04. 2024.

Elis e Tom (Elis & Tom)

In February 1974, stellar singer Elis Regina and bossa nova legend Tom Jobim met in Los Angeles to record an album that would become a true classic of Brazilian popular music. Through previously unreleased 16mm recordings, we witness the creative...

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Omara Portuondo Photographer: Eduardo Rodriguez

12. 04. 2024.

Omara

If you’ve listened to the Buena Vista Social Club, then you’ve heard the unforgettable voice of Omara Portuondo. At 90, Cuba’s legendary diva has been a driving force in Afro-Cuban music for over seven decades. In this...

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Again and Again
MORDÁI Photographer: Zsófia Pályi / Müpa Budapest

12. 04. 2024.

Ritmo films: Again and Again / MORDÁI

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

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The Last Hope of Věra Bílá

12. 04. 2024.

Poslední naděje Věry Bílé (The Last Hope of Věra Bílá)

Věra Bílá was once one of the largest celebrities on the Czech music scene. Together with the band Kale, she went on numerous tours of Europe, the USA and Japan. But after leaving the band in 2006 she no longer performs in public, and her passion...

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Ida's Idea

12. 04. 2024.

O čo ide Idě (Ida’s Idea)

A look at the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra’s incredible tour of Romany settlements in eastern Slovakia and its collaboration with Ida Kelarová, the Čhavorenge ensemble, and local Romany children who had ten days to learn the songs that they...

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Budapest Ritmo Conference Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa Budapest

13. 04. 2024.

Budapest Ritmo Conference

Budapest Ritmo will again host a conference for the music industry, an opportunity for professionals, artists and music lovers to network and share ideas. For two days, international experts, innovators and practitioners will explore the hottest...

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Luca Bassanese & La Piccola Orchestra Popolare Source: AIDA_Music
Duckshell
Puuluup Photographer: Taavi Arus
Džambo Aguševi Orchestra

13. 04. 2024.

Budapest Ritmo

On Saturday, the third day of Budapest Ritmo, the concert programme at Akvárium Klub continues with the most exciting performers of world music. Sail the seas with Italian pirates, and listen to the songs of Welsh minstrels and Estonian balladeers....

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The Last Hope of Věra Bílá

13. 04. 2024.

Poslední naděje Věry Bílé (The Last Hope of Věra Bílá)

Věra Bílá was once one of the largest celebrities on the Czech music scene. Together with the band Kale, she went on numerous tours of Europe, the USA and Japan. But after leaving the band in 2006 she no longer performs in public, and her passion...

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Ida's Idea

13. 04. 2024.

O čo ide Idě (Ida’s Idea)

A look at the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra’s incredible tour of Romany settlements in eastern Slovakia and its collaboration with Ida Kelarová, the Čhavorenge ensemble, and local Romany children who had ten days to learn the songs that they...

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Omara Portuondo Photographer: Eduardo Rodriguez

13. 04. 2024.

Omara

If you’ve listened to the Buena Vista Social Club, then you’ve heard the unforgettable voice of Omara Portuondo. At 90, Cuba’s legendary diva has been a driving force in Afro-Cuban music for over seven decades. In this...

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Elis e Tom

13. 04. 2024.

Elis e Tom (Elis & Tom)

In February 1974, stellar singer Elis Regina and bossa nova legend Tom Jobim met in Los Angeles to record an album that would become a true classic of Brazilian popular music. Through previously unreleased 16mm recordings, we witness the creative...

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Till Brönner Photographer: Till Brönner

14. 04. 2024.

Till Brönner: Identity – Landscape Europe

The photographer and musician is a passionate European; born into a family of German musicians, he grew up in Italy and in the Rhineland. Considered one of the most successful German jazz musicians of all time, the melodic quality of his playing has...

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Tan Dun

14. 04. 2024.

Tan Dun: Buddha Passion – Hungarian premiere

Commissioned by the Dresden Music Festival, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, this monumental, six-part Buddha Passion was written in 2018. The piece has a Chinese and Sanskrit...

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