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Cavalleria Rusticana: Pagliacci, Opera House Budapest, 24 December
- 4 Apr 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
“Easter Showdown Motivated By Jealousy!” “Clown Commits Murder On Stage!”
These are two headlines that might have graced Edoardo Sonzogno’s front pages, and it is the Milanese newspaper publisher and his annual opera-writing competition we have to thank for Italy’s two most popular one-act works.
The two pieces can be considered twin operas as they have much in common, and the works are ...
Mayerling, Opera House Budapest, 3 April
- 3 Apr 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Ballet in three acts
Kenneth MacMillan's fourth full-length ballet relates the tragic story of the heir to the Austrian throne and his mistress.
The choreographer's treatment of the 1889 double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf and Mary Vetsera in light of the social, political and personal pressures that beset the two protagonists resulted in an extraordinarily shocking work, one widely ...
Richard Wagner: Parsifal, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, 31 March
- 31 Mar 2024 4:00 PM
- classical
In Parsifal, his final music drama, Wagner embeds fear of the temptations of the world and sinful desires into a tale of redemption. The work is indeed a festival play for the stage rather than an opera.
Many viewers – perhaps out of their own fears – criticised Wagner, who wrote both the libretto and the music, for what could be called the piece’s virtue and remarkable complexity, which is ...
Colour Concerts, Palace of Arts Budapest, 30 March
- 30 Mar 2024 5:00 PM
- contemporary
A broad spectrum of musical genres can be heard in and around the Foyer in the afternoons: visitors stopping by and wishing to hear music in Müpa Budapest may listen to the young representatives of popular music, jazz and folk on Tuesdays and classical genres on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The Colour Concert series gives students of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy and other music schools an ...
Zeus Salas: Death Trilogy - An Artist’s Journey in Three Instalments, The Workshop Budapest, 29 March
- 29 Mar 2024 7:00 PM
- community
Venezuelan painter-performer Zeus Alas conceived a series of three live painting performances that align and conclude with the closure of a period in the artist’s life. In all three parts of this trilogy, Zeus pays homage to one of his signature colors, red.
In his performance series Death Trilogy, Zeus reflects on the evolution of his work, assessing his own motivations for starting to paint ...
BMC Records Album Release Concert, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 28 March
- 28 Mar 2024 8:01 PM
- contemporary
The new album of Shadowlands, out on BMC Records this March, features traditional songs and contemporary poems. Inspired by a mixture of early music, folk and plainsong as well as the painting of Jackie Berridge, Lauren Kinsella, Robin Fincker, and Kit Downes offer chamber and contemporary music.
The three vibrant voices of the European creative music scenes, followers of crossroads between ...
Punnany Massif - Punnany, National Concert Hall Budapest, 27 March
- 27 Mar 2024 8:00 PM
- classical
Hailing from Pécs, Punnany Massif have enjoyed a monumental journey in the 20 action-packed years since the band established from the initial pairing of two MCs, Máté Felcser (RendbenMan) and Roland Farkas (Wolfie) got together in 2003.
By the 2010s, they had won the hearts of the Hungarian masses with their self-blended, trendsetting musical cocktail.
Following their anniversary year in ...
Gala Concert, Opera House Budapest, 26 March
- 26 Mar 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
Nine years ago, we celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of a great admirer of Italian Renaissance, the legendary Hungarian architect Miklós Ybl, who left behind not only his masterpiece, the Opera House but also such timeless works as the Castle Bazaar, St. Stephen’s Basilica and the Danubius Fountain on Erzsébet Square.
The concert was attended by an audience of engineers and architects, ...
Budapest Festival Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 25 March
- 25 Mar 2024 7:45 PM
- classical
One of two surviving Bach passions, the Saint Matthew Passion, which can be considered the zenith of Protestant church music, is often performed today as a purely musical piece, even though it really is an example of applied music at its best, or as Iván Fischer describes it, "a ritual with spiritual content.”
When it was first presented on Good Friday 1727, the work was paused between its ...
Cavalleria Rusticana: Pagliacci, Opera House Budapest, 24 December
- 4 Apr 2024 6:00 PM
- classical
“Easter Showdown Motivated By Jealousy!” “Clown Commits Murder On Stage!”
These are two headlines that might have graced Edoardo Sonzogno’s front pages, and it is the Milanese newspaper publisher and his annual opera-writing competition we have to thank for Italy’s two most popular one-act works.
The two pieces can be considered twin operas as they have much in common, and the works are ...
Mayerling, Opera House Budapest, 3 April
- 3 Apr 2024 7:00 PM
- classical
Ballet in three acts
Kenneth MacMillan's fourth full-length ballet relates the tragic story of the heir to the Austrian throne and his mistress.
The choreographer's treatment of the 1889 double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf and Mary Vetsera in light of the social, political and personal pressures that beset the two protagonists resulted in an extraordinarily shocking work, one widely ...
Richard Wagner: Parsifal, Hungarian State Opera Budapest, 31 March
- 31 Mar 2024 4:00 PM
- classical
In Parsifal, his final music drama, Wagner embeds fear of the temptations of the world and sinful desires into a tale of redemption. The work is indeed a festival play for the stage rather than an opera.
Many viewers – perhaps out of their own fears – criticised Wagner, who wrote both the libretto and the music, for what could be called the piece’s virtue and remarkable complexity, which is ...
Colour Concerts, Palace of Arts Budapest, 30 March
- 30 Mar 2024 5:00 PM
- contemporary
A broad spectrum of musical genres can be heard in and around the Foyer in the afternoons: visitors stopping by and wishing to hear music in Müpa Budapest may listen to the young representatives of popular music, jazz and folk on Tuesdays and classical genres on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The Colour Concert series gives students of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy and other music schools an ...
Zeus Salas: Death Trilogy - An Artist’s Journey in Three Instalments, The Workshop Budapest, 29 March
- 29 Mar 2024 7:00 PM
- community
Venezuelan painter-performer Zeus Alas conceived a series of three live painting performances that align and conclude with the closure of a period in the artist’s life. In all three parts of this trilogy, Zeus pays homage to one of his signature colors, red.
In his performance series Death Trilogy, Zeus reflects on the evolution of his work, assessing his own motivations for starting to paint ...
BMC Records Album Release Concert, Opus Jazz Club Budapest, 28 March
- 28 Mar 2024 8:01 PM
- contemporary
The new album of Shadowlands, out on BMC Records this March, features traditional songs and contemporary poems. Inspired by a mixture of early music, folk and plainsong as well as the painting of Jackie Berridge, Lauren Kinsella, Robin Fincker, and Kit Downes offer chamber and contemporary music.
The three vibrant voices of the European creative music scenes, followers of crossroads between ...
Punnany Massif - Punnany, National Concert Hall Budapest, 27 March
- 27 Mar 2024 8:00 PM
- classical
Hailing from Pécs, Punnany Massif have enjoyed a monumental journey in the 20 action-packed years since the band established from the initial pairing of two MCs, Máté Felcser (RendbenMan) and Roland Farkas (Wolfie) got together in 2003.
By the 2010s, they had won the hearts of the Hungarian masses with their self-blended, trendsetting musical cocktail.
Following their anniversary year in ...
Gala Concert, Opera House Budapest, 26 March
- 26 Mar 2024 7:30 PM
- classical
Nine years ago, we celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of a great admirer of Italian Renaissance, the legendary Hungarian architect Miklós Ybl, who left behind not only his masterpiece, the Opera House but also such timeless works as the Castle Bazaar, St. Stephen’s Basilica and the Danubius Fountain on Erzsébet Square.
The concert was attended by an audience of engineers and architects, ...
Budapest Festival Orchestra, National Concert Hall Budapest, 25 March
- 25 Mar 2024 7:45 PM
- classical
One of two surviving Bach passions, the Saint Matthew Passion, which can be considered the zenith of Protestant church music, is often performed today as a purely musical piece, even though it really is an example of applied music at its best, or as Iván Fischer describes it, "a ritual with spiritual content.”
When it was first presented on Good Friday 1727, the work was paused between its ...