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Sándor Galimberti: Yard in Nagybánya, 1907 | Private property, through the agency of Kieselbach Gallery

09. 10. 2024.

The Galimberti

Sándor Galimberti and his wife, Valéria Dénes were seminal figures of 20th-century modern Hungarian art. However, this extensive exhibition selects from the works not only of the couple, but also of the husband’s father, Luigi Galimberti, and...

St Elizabeth of Hungary

09. 10. 2024.

Liszt: The Legend of St Elizabeth

From the autumn of 1861, Liszt spent more and more time in Rome, where his interest turned towards church music. In 1862 he completed his first oratorio, The Legend of St Elizabeth. Liszt had long been intrigued by the life of the Hungarian...

Autumn Margó Literary Festival
Photographer: János Posztós / Müpa

10. 10. 2024.

Autumn Margó Literary Festival

This autumn, book lovers and literary aficionados can once again rendezvous at the Millenáris, in the National Dance Theatre. Those who will present their new books at the Autumn Margó include Petra Finy, Márton Gerlóczy, János Háy, István Kemény...

Recirquel: Paradisum

10. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum – premiere

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

Lőrinc Barabás
Photographer: Kristóf Galgóczi Németh

Jazzical Trio
Photographer: Ádám Pintér

10. 10. 2024.

Lőrinc Barabás and the Jazzical Trio

Ferenc Liszt was one of the greatest improvisers of his time. The spontaneous flow of his musical ideas left its mark even on his most rigorously constructed compositions. Norbert Káel considers the mixing of different musical styles and...

Nóvé Soma / iamyank / Vangel Tibor
Photographer: Attila Nagy

10. 10. 2024.

Soma Nóvé / iamyank / Tibor Vangel re-imagine The Doors

Led by its frontman Jim Morrison, the Doors was an iconic band of the wild 1960s. The influence the bohemian singer-songwriter and his group had on his own generation, as well as the ones that followed, was unearthly. When The Music’s Over is...

Autumn Margó Literary Festival
Photographer: János Posztós / Müpa

11. 10. 2024.

Autumn Margó Literary Festival

This autumn, book lovers and literary aficionados can once again rendezvous at the Millenáris, in the National Dance Theatre. Those who will present their new books at the Autumn Margó include Petra Finy, Márton Gerlóczy, János Háy, István Kemény...

Recirquel: Paradisum

11. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

Háromszék Dance Ensemble: Ecce Homo
Photographer: Jocó Kátai

Háromszék Dance Ensemble: Ecce Homo
Photographer: Jocó Kátai

11. 10. 2024.

Háromszék Dance Theatre: Ecce Homo – premiere

Premiered in January 2024, this dance drama follows the idea of ‘Behold the man.’ The production paraphrases Mihály Munkácsy’s paintings in an original manner, being based on not only the famous trilogy (Christ before Pilate, Ecce...

Vasily Petrenko
Photographer: Svetlana Tarlova

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Photographer: Chris Christodoulou

József Balog
Photographer: László Emmer

11. 10. 2024.

Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

After standing at the helm of the Liverpool Philharmonic for fifteen years, Vasili Petrenko took over as Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) in 2021. Founded in 1946, the renowned ensemble is one of the most active symphony...

Franciska Törőcsik / Bob Dylan / Katica Nagy

11. 10. 2024.

Anima Sound System: The Songs of Bob Dylan

Temptation, ecstasy, experiment and pop, music and poetry: the great lyric poetry of the Nobel Prize-winning genius and double-dealing role-player, with music by the Anima Sound System, edited by Zsolt Prieger, and featuring renowned actors and...

PONT Festival
Photographer: Szilvia Csibi / Müpa Budapest

12. 10. 2024.

PONT Festival

This year’s edition of the PONT Festival, one of Hungary’s most colourful series of world music events, focuses on the diverse culture of Turkey. The open-air events will be held in the Museum Garden. Starting in the mid-morning, the...

Choir Marathon
Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa

12. 10. 2024.

Choir Marathon of Liszt’s Works

Liszt’s experiences in Rome had a profound influence on his choral art. As early as 1839, he was fascinated by the musical practice at the Cappella Sistina, and he really intensively studied the repertoire itself between 1861 and 1865....

Magnificat Girls' Choir

12. 10. 2024.

Magnificat Girls' Choir

Liszt was one of the most prolific composers of church music in the second half of the 19th century, especially from 1860 on, when he spent much of his time in Rome. He composed more than fifty choral works, both with and without accompaniment,...

Autumn Margó Literary Festival
Photographer: János Posztós / Müpa

12. 10. 2024.

Autumn Margó Literary Festival

This autumn, book lovers and literary aficionados can once again rendezvous at the Millenáris, in the National Dance Theatre. Those who will present their new books at the Autumn Margó include Petra Finy, Márton Gerlóczy, János Háy, István Kemény...

ELTE Béla Bartók Choir

12. 10. 2024.

Eötvös Loránd University Bartók Béla Choir

In 1879, Emil Ábrányi published an expansive study on Ferenc Liszt, underlining that the composer was the most important creator of modern church music. ‘He has made use of all the achievements of modern music, and in doing so, instead of...

Choir marathon of Liszt’s works
Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa

12. 10. 2024.

Béla Bartók Male Choir

When in 1848, after a long time, Liszt returned to his birthplace, Doborján (Raiding), he also visited the Franciscan priest, Stanislaus (Szaniszló) Albach, who served in Kismarton (Eisenstadt). This was where he started composing his Mass for male...

Choir marathon of Liszt’s works
Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa

12. 10. 2024.

The participation of the Vass Lajos Chamber Choir during the Mass

In the 1860s, Ferenc Liszt was a regular guest in Rome. He stayed at the monastery on Monte Mario, and in the middle of the decade he joined the Franciscans, reaching the fourth degree of the order. This was a period when ‘Abbé...

Háromszék Dance Ensemble: Ecce Homo
Photographer: Jocó Kátai

Háromszék Dance Ensemble: Ecce Homo
Photographer: Jocó Kátai

12. 10. 2024.

Háromszék Dance Theatre: Ecce Homo

Premiered in January 2024, this dance drama follows the idea of ‘Behold the man.’ The production paraphrases Mihály Munkácsy’s paintings in an original manner, being based on not only the famous trilogy (Christ before Pilate, Ecce...

Recirquel: Paradisum

12. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

Francesco Tristano
Photographer: Marie Staggat

12. 10. 2024.

Francesco Tristano

Born in Luxembourg and educated in New York, pianist and composer Francesco Tristano is as much at home in the world of the classical masters and jazz as he is in electronic and experimental music. A first-rate Bach player, he is recording all the...

Miklós H. Vecsei and QJÚB
Photographer: Sinco Jim

12. 10. 2024.

Miklós H. Vecsei and QJÚB x Radnóti

This year, the Music Hungary Award-winning team of QJÚB will present a production based on Miklós Radnóti’s oeuvre, and they will now be joined by iamyank as co-producer, while the visuals will be the responsibility of Edina Palkovits. The...

Choir marathon of Liszt’s works
Photographer: Andrea Felvégi / Müpa

12. 10. 2024.

Alma Mater Chorus and the New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir

Anton Bruckner, the bicentenary of whose birth is celebrated by the music world this year, was wholeheartedly idolizing his older colleague, Ferenc Liszt. They met in person only very late, in 1885, in Vienna. Brahms had made Liszt’s...

Autumn Margó Literary Festival
Photographer: János Posztós / Müpa

13. 10. 2024.

Autumn Margó Literary Festival

This autumn, book lovers and literary aficionados can once again rendezvous at the Millenáris, in the National Dance Theatre. Those who will present their new books at the Autumn Margó include Petra Finy, Márton Gerlóczy, János Háy, István Kemény...

Recirquel: Paradisum

13. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

László Kollár-Klemencz
Photographer: Gábor Erdélyi

13. 10. 2024.

László Kollár-Klemencz: Anyám tenyere (My Mother’s Palm) – book launch and concert

Following short story collections with popular descriptions of nature, and a novel that commemorates his German ancestors, László Kollár-Klemencz has now written a work that is pure fiction. Anyám tenyere (My Mother’s Palm) is set in the...

András Visky
Photographer: Gábor Valuska

14. 10. 2024.

An Evening with András Visky

Kitelepítés (Deportation), a novel by András Visky, winner of the 2023 Margó Prize, is the harrowing story of a family, told from the point of view of a boy, who at age two was deported to a camp on the Bărăgan Plain by the Danube Delta, together...

Pottyond from afar, Autumn 2023
Photographer: Vajk István Szigeti

15. 10. 2024.

Székelys

This extensive exhibition presents the diversity of the historical Székely Land, from the embourgeoisement of the 19th century to modernisation in the 21st century. The objects and documents on view come to Budapest from the collections of major...

Recirquel: Paradisum

15. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

Recirquel: Paradisum

16. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

Einstürzende Neubauten
Photographer: Thomas Rabsch

16. 10. 2024.

Einstürzende Neubauten

Founded in 1980, the legendary Einstürzende Neubauten have been following their own path for more than four decades. The band’s unique, unmistakably individual sound, the special colours conjured from the instruments of their own making, the...

Art Market Budapest
Photographer: Fanni Hermán

17. 10. 2024.

Art Market Budapest

Art Market Budapest, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading international art fair and one of the largest in Europe, brings a special experience to art lovers and professionals for the 14th occasion in October 2024. Hungary’s bigest,...

Recirquel: Paradisum

17. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

Tomorrow Comes The Harvest
Photographer: Jacob Khrist

17. 10. 2024.

Jeff Mills presents Tomorrow Comes The Harvest

Jeff Mills started out in the Detroit underground of the early 80s, and today his music can be heard in cinemas, galleries and museums such as the Louvre in Paris. There is no question that this pioneer of electronic dance music has become a true...

Natalia LL: Consumer Art (detail), 1975
Photographer: Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art |

18. 10. 2024.

Women’s Quota 01

When the Ludwig Museum was founded in the early 1990s, only eight of the 165 works in the international collection brought to Hungary by Peter and Irene Ludwig were by female artists, which represented less than five per cent of the total. This...

Art Market Budapest
Photographer: Fanni Hermán

18. 10. 2024.

Art Market Budapest

Art Market Budapest, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading international art fair and one of the largest in Europe, brings a special experience to art lovers and professionals for the 14th occasion in October 2024. Hungary’s bigest,...

Recirquel: Paradisum

18. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

Ferenc Liszt
Photographer: Lithography by Edgar Hanfstaengl, cca. 1869

18. 10. 2024.

Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera’s Liszt Concert

The Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Opera and its acting artistic director, György Selmeczi bring a programme to Budapest that fills a long-felt need. The compositions in the concert programme offer a particularly striking testimony to the complexity of the...

Art Market Budapest
Photographer: Fanni Hermán

19. 10. 2024.

Art Market Budapest

Art Market Budapest, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading international art fair and one of the largest in Europe, brings a special experience to art lovers and professionals for the 14th occasion in October 2024. Hungary’s bigest,...

Seun Kuti
Photographer: Alexis Mayron

Elysian Fields
Photographer: Mark Seliger

19. 10. 2024.

Isolation Budapest

Isolation Budapest, a festival jointly organised by the Liszt Fest and Akvárium Klub, has entered its third year. The philosophy remains the same in 2024, with the most exciting artists from the international and national music scene taking to the...

Recirquel: Paradisum

19. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

Art Market Budapest
Photographer: Fanni Hermán

20. 10. 2024.

Art Market Budapest

Art Market Budapest, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading international art fair and one of the largest in Europe, brings a special experience to art lovers and professionals for the 14th occasion in October 2024. Hungary’s bigest,...

Recirquel: Paradisum

20. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

Markus Stockhausen Group
Photographer: Gerhard Richter

20. 10. 2024.

Markus Stockhausen Group

While it chiefly draws on Western classical music, the Markus Stockhausen Group also embraces avant-garde and jazz – generally speaking, the culture of improvisation. Released in April 2024, the band’s latest album, Celebration was...

The Qualitons
Photographer: Kevin Campean

21. 10. 2024.

The Qualitons presents Iván Szenes 100

Iván Szenes, the most prolific originator of Hungarian hit songs, who also knew the ins and outs of theatre, was born 100 years ago. In his case, it is indeed no exaggeration to say he had countless songs to his name as a lyricist and partly as a...

Recirquel: Paradisum

22. 10. 2024.

Recirquel: Paradisum

Recirquel’s new production, Paradisum explores the myth of rebirth following the silence of a destroyed world, where the means of communication is the body, and the only common language is movement. The creatures of this idyllic existence...

Martin Haselböck and the Orchester Wiener Akademie
Photographer: Andrej Grilc

22. 10. 2024.

Martin Haselböck and the Orchester Wiener Akademie

The contradictory social situation of the artist, the elusiveness of success, the workings of creative inspiration or the responsibility of the genius are general artistic and aesthetic problems that essentially defined Ferenc Liszt’s...