220 result(s) for drama performance
Bartók Spring Festival Online: Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Palace Of Arts, 14 May
- 10 May 2021 1:56 PM
- https://www.mupa.hu/en
- community & culture
Thirteen years after a thrilling performance, John Eliot Gardiner returns with the St John Passion, this time to the virtual concert hall of Müpa Budapest.
The Operas Of Richard Strauss Conducted By Zoltán Kocsis, Palace Of Arts, 23 April
- 23 Apr 2021 6:00 PM
- classical
Zoltán Kocsis deliberately and methodically set about presenting composers' complete oeuvres. In the course of interpreting the symphonic poems of Richard Strauss, he discovered the invaluable masterpieces that Strauss wrote as an opera composer.
This led to his embarking on the massive undertaking of mounting, one after the other and as joint productions between the Hungarian National ...
Werther, Online Stream From Opera House Budapest, 10 April
- 10 Apr 2021 8:00 PM
- classical
Lyric drama in three parts, four acts in French, with Hungarian and English surtitles.
Goethe dashed out The Sorrows of Young Werther in all of six weeks. The novel, which relates, through a series of letters, the hopeless love of a young poet who chooses death to escape his torments, became an immediate best seller, at a stroke both catapulting its author to fame and launching the ...
Yoann Bourgeois: He Who Falls, Trafó Budapest, 9 April
- 9 Apr 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
This thrilling circus-influenced physical theatre piece features six performers on a dramatic tilting stage, appearing to defy the laws of gravity. When the imposing, suspended podium begins to spin, pivot, swing and elevate, the only way to withstand its forces is through agile movement. Faced by such instability, bodies lean, climb, hang and fall in this perilous dance of survival.
The ...
Cancelled: György Kurtág: 'Endgame', Premiere @ Palace Of Arts, 7 April
- 7 Apr 2021 7:00 PM
- contemporary
From the organisers on 3 April:
"The performance has been cancelled.
We regret to inform our audience that the Hungarian premiere of György Kurtág: Fin de partie (Endgame) has been cancelled due to the current state of the pandemic.
Thank you for your understanding!"
According to a critic, Kurtág's Fin de partie is a loving farewell to 20th-century modernism. Based on Samuel Beckett's ...
John Eliot Gardiner With English Baroque Soloists, Palace Of Arts, 4 April
- 4 Apr 2021 7:00 PM
- classical
Thirteen years after a thrilling performance, John Eliot Gardiner returns with the St John Passion to Müpa Budapest. If he is the doyen of the early music movement, the world-famous conductor continues to be characterized by a tireless curiosity and energetic attitude.
His albums have lost none of their freshness; made over three decades ago, his first recording of the St John Passion is ...
The Jeweller's Shop, Eiffel Art Studios, 3 April
- 3 Apr 2021 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Contemplation on the sacrament of marriage with Krzysztof Penderecki's music, in one part, in Hungarian
Video study for a performance in the making
The namesake of the square where the Erkel Theatre is situated was the author of serious literary works and had close ties to the theatrical world: during his university years, the future Pope John Paul II organised literary gatherings and ...
Watch: Goethe's Werther, Streamed From Budapest's Opera House, 10 April
- 3 Apr 2021 9:32 AM
- community & culture
This lyrical drama in French, with Hungarian and English subtitles, has excellent reviews - such as, "János Szikora’s production can be regarded as an embodiment of the principle that “less is more” as he steers Goethe’s story with a sure hand but minimal invention to the end".
Cancelled: 'Christian Cantatas', Palace Of Arts, 2 April
- 2 Apr 2021 7:00 PM
- classical
The Christian Cantatas is a production that brings together three cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 4, 82 and 56). Originally, they were not written for the same period of the liturgical year, and their particular theological content is different.
On this occasion, however, their shared aspects will be highlighted, thanks to a dramatic and staging concept. The works will be performed ...
Bartók Spring Festival Online: Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Palace Of Arts, 14 May
- 10 May 2021 1:56 PM
- https://www.mupa.hu/en
- community & culture
Thirteen years after a thrilling performance, John Eliot Gardiner returns with the St John Passion, this time to the virtual concert hall of Müpa Budapest.
The Operas Of Richard Strauss Conducted By Zoltán Kocsis, Palace Of Arts, 23 April
- 23 Apr 2021 6:00 PM
- classical
Zoltán Kocsis deliberately and methodically set about presenting composers' complete oeuvres. In the course of interpreting the symphonic poems of Richard Strauss, he discovered the invaluable masterpieces that Strauss wrote as an opera composer.
This led to his embarking on the massive undertaking of mounting, one after the other and as joint productions between the Hungarian National ...
Werther, Online Stream From Opera House Budapest, 10 April
- 10 Apr 2021 8:00 PM
- classical
Lyric drama in three parts, four acts in French, with Hungarian and English surtitles.
Goethe dashed out The Sorrows of Young Werther in all of six weeks. The novel, which relates, through a series of letters, the hopeless love of a young poet who chooses death to escape his torments, became an immediate best seller, at a stroke both catapulting its author to fame and launching the ...
Yoann Bourgeois: He Who Falls, Trafó Budapest, 9 April
- 9 Apr 2021 8:00 PM
- contemporary
This thrilling circus-influenced physical theatre piece features six performers on a dramatic tilting stage, appearing to defy the laws of gravity. When the imposing, suspended podium begins to spin, pivot, swing and elevate, the only way to withstand its forces is through agile movement. Faced by such instability, bodies lean, climb, hang and fall in this perilous dance of survival.
The ...
Cancelled: György Kurtág: 'Endgame', Premiere @ Palace Of Arts, 7 April
- 7 Apr 2021 7:00 PM
- contemporary
From the organisers on 3 April:
"The performance has been cancelled.
We regret to inform our audience that the Hungarian premiere of György Kurtág: Fin de partie (Endgame) has been cancelled due to the current state of the pandemic.
Thank you for your understanding!"
According to a critic, Kurtág's Fin de partie is a loving farewell to 20th-century modernism. Based on Samuel Beckett's ...
John Eliot Gardiner With English Baroque Soloists, Palace Of Arts, 4 April
- 4 Apr 2021 7:00 PM
- classical
Thirteen years after a thrilling performance, John Eliot Gardiner returns with the St John Passion to Müpa Budapest. If he is the doyen of the early music movement, the world-famous conductor continues to be characterized by a tireless curiosity and energetic attitude.
His albums have lost none of their freshness; made over three decades ago, his first recording of the St John Passion is ...
The Jeweller's Shop, Eiffel Art Studios, 3 April
- 3 Apr 2021 7:00 PM
- contemporary
Contemplation on the sacrament of marriage with Krzysztof Penderecki's music, in one part, in Hungarian
Video study for a performance in the making
The namesake of the square where the Erkel Theatre is situated was the author of serious literary works and had close ties to the theatrical world: during his university years, the future Pope John Paul II organised literary gatherings and ...
Watch: Goethe's Werther, Streamed From Budapest's Opera House, 10 April
- 3 Apr 2021 9:32 AM
- community & culture
This lyrical drama in French, with Hungarian and English subtitles, has excellent reviews - such as, "János Szikora’s production can be regarded as an embodiment of the principle that “less is more” as he steers Goethe’s story with a sure hand but minimal invention to the end".
Cancelled: 'Christian Cantatas', Palace Of Arts, 2 April
- 2 Apr 2021 7:00 PM
- classical
The Christian Cantatas is a production that brings together three cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 4, 82 and 56). Originally, they were not written for the same period of the liturgical year, and their particular theological content is different.
On this occasion, however, their shared aspects will be highlighted, thanks to a dramatic and staging concept. The works will be performed ...