Budapest Dance Theatre: Toldi – premiere

11 October 2025 | 7.00 pm

Müpa Budapest — Festival Theatre

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Miklós Toldi: Zoltán Zsuráfszky Jr

Prose from recording: Miklós Toldi: Máté Pásztor , György Toldi: László Csere, Palatine Endre Laczfi: Zoltán Boros , Lady Lőrinc Toldi, mother of Miklós and György: Krisztina Borbély, Bence, servant of the Toldis: Péter Benkő , King Louis: Gábor Nagy, Mikola, Czech knight: Zoltán Boros

Featured from a recording: Esszencia

Palatine Endre Laczfi: Donát Varga

The members of the band: Róbert Lakatos – violin, viola, Tamás Kunos – viola, Árpád Kiss – trumpet, Péter Bede – saxophone, Marcel Comendant – cimbalom, János Rigó – double bass

György Toldi: Daniele Bosco

Lady Lőrinc Toldi, mother of Miklós and György: Yvette Levine

Music: Róbert Lakatos

Widow: Maria Borges

Dramaturgy: Zoltán Boros

Bence, servant of the Toldis: Marika Masuda

Projection mapping: Péter Juhász

Stage set and costume: Péter Klimó

King Louis: Matthew Bell

Lighting: Béla Földi

Queen: Marika Trucci

Choreography: Alexandra Sághy, Attila Tókos

Mikola, Czech knight: Donát Varga

Director: Béla Földi

János Arany’s epic poem is an enduring classic of Hungarian literature, with turns of phrases that are still parts of common parlance, and a hero who has been revived in opera, animated film, physical theatre production and monodrama. But do we know the work well enough? – ask the creators of Budapest Dance Theatre. What is certain is that, compared to the ambitious works of János Arany’s contemporaries, like Sándor Petőfi’s John the Valiant and Imre Madách’s The Tragedy of Man, Toldi has been given the dance treatment less often. The choreographers, Alexandra Sághy and Attila Tókos are convinced that the world of Toldi can be made compelling for today’s young generation through the formal idiom of contemporary dance theatre, with a production that captures the imagination with the fusion of prose, dance, music and film.

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