Budapest Dance Theatre: Toldi

12 October 2025 | 11.00 am

Müpa Budapest — Festival Theatre

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#Children’s and youth event #Dance
Ticket prices
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5900
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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
Miklós Toldi: Zoltán Zsuráfszky Jr
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
Dramaturgy: Zoltán Boros
Widow: Maria Borges
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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