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Art Market Budapest Photographer: Fanni Herman

07. 10. 2022.

Art Market Budapest

Art Market Budapest, the most important international contemporary art fair in Central and Eastern Europe, the largest art exhibition in Hungary will open its doors for the 12th time in October 2022. Attracting tens of thousands of visitors each...

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Sherry Williams Photographer: Mary Ann Halpin
Brian Charette Photographer: Anna Yatskevich
András Gábor Virágh Photographer: Nikolett Várady
Modern Art Orchestra Photographer: Zsolt Birtalan

07. 10. 2022.

The Opening Concert of the Liszt Fest

The opening concert of the Liszt Fest invites you on an exciting journey through different genres, as the Modern Art Orchestra, led by Kornél Fekete-Kovács, performs one of Franz Liszt’s most unique pieces. The composition is connected to 20th...

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Organ of Sacred Heart Jesuit Church

08. 10. 2022.

Organ Marathon of Liszt’s Works

Ferenc Liszt’s organ music is not only a particularly exciting and distinctive part of the composer’s œuvre, but also plays a significant role in the history and development of the world’s organ music. His works for organ have...

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Ágoston Gedai Photographer: Mátyás Papp

08. 10. 2022.

Ágoston Gedai’s Organ Recital

Ferenc Liszt’s organ music is not only a particularly exciting and distinctive part of the composer’s œuvre, but also plays a significant role in the history and development of the world’s organ music. His works for organ have...

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Art Market Budapest Photographer: Fanni Herman

08. 10. 2022.

Art Market Budapest

Art Market Budapest, the most important international contemporary art fair in Central and Eastern Europe, the largest art exhibition in Hungary will open its doors for the 12th time in October 2022. Attracting tens of thousands of visitors each...

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Zoltán Herczeg

08. 10. 2022.

Zoltán Herczeg’s Organ Recital

Ferenc Liszt’s organ music is not only a particularly exciting and distinctive part of the composer’s œuvre, but also plays a significant role in the history and development of the world’s organ music. His works for organ have...

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Tamás Kubík

08. 10. 2022.

Tamás Kubík’s Organ Recital

Ferenc Liszt’s organ music is not only a particularly exciting and distinctive part of the composer’s œuvre, but also plays a significant role in the history and development of the world’s organ music. His works for organ have...

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Csaba Tasi

08. 10. 2022.

Csaba Tasi’s Organ Recital

Ferenc Liszt’s organ music is not only a particularly exciting and distinctive part of the composer’s œuvre, but also plays a significant role in the history and development of the world’s organ music. His works for organ have...

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Familie Flöz: Hokuspokus Photographer: Johannes Kressin

08. 10. 2022.

Familie Flöz: Hokuspokus

Hungarian audiences quickly fell for Familie Flöz. Following several influential productions, the company now brings to Budapest a play full of surprises, including the fact that you can now hear the actors speak behind the masks. As always, Familie...

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János Túri-Nagy Photographer: Attila Vörösváczki

08. 10. 2022.

János Túri-Nagy’s Organ Recital

Ferenc Liszt’s organ music is not only a particularly exciting and distinctive part of the composer’s œuvre, but also plays a significant role in the history and development of the world’s organ music. His works for organ have...

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Tcha Limberger Photographer: Dave Kelbie
Lajos Sárközi Jr

08. 10. 2022.

Tcha Limberger and Lajos Sárközi Jr in Concert

Traditional Gypsy music will rendezvous with authentic folk music, Manouche jazz and the world of Django Reinhardt at what promises to be a unique concert by Tcha Limberger and Lajos Sárközi Jr. Tcha Limberger, who is of Flemish-Sinti descent, grew...

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Alan Zsilka

08. 10. 2022.

Alan Zsilka’s Organ Recital

Ferenc Liszt’s organ music is not only a particularly exciting and distinctive part of the composer’s œuvre, but also plays a significant role in the history and development of the world’s organ music. His works for organ have...

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Art Market Budapest Photographer: Fanni Herman

09. 10. 2022.

Art Market Budapest

Art Market Budapest, the most important international contemporary art fair in Central and Eastern Europe, the largest art exhibition in Hungary will open its doors for the 12th time in October 2022. Attracting tens of thousands of visitors each...

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Familie Flöz: Hokuspokus Photographer: Johannes Kressin

09. 10. 2022.

Familie Flöz: Hokuspokus

Hungarian audiences quickly fell for Familie Flöz. Following several influential productions, the company now brings to Budapest a play full of surprises, including the fact that you can now hear the actors speak behind the masks. As always, Familie...

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Plácido Domingo Photographer: Fiorenzo Niccoli

09. 10. 2022.

Plácido Domingo Sings Zarzuelas

The zarzuela is a long-established genre of Spanish musical theatre, dating back to the early decades of the Baroque period, and also becoming popular in a number of Spanish-speaking countries outside Spain. A distinctive feature is that prose and...

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Michael Volle Photographer: Gisela Schenker
Atala Schöck Photographer: Éva Papp
Pinchas Steinberg

10. 10. 2022.

Michael Volle Sings Arias

With composer Ödön Mihalovich as its first president, the Wagner Society of Hungary, which was founded in 1872 in Pest, was actively involved in the completion by 1876 of the Bayreuth shrine of the cult of Wagner. This concert, which celebrates the...

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Janoska Ensemble Photographer: Andreas Bitesnich

11. 10. 2022.

Janoska Ensemble: The Big B’s

The three Bratislava-born Janoska brothers and their bassist brother-in-law, Julius Darvas have a very special way of performing the well-known masterpieces of the greatest classics, be they Mozart or the Beatles, in a manner that renders them...

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Studio 5 Photographer: Krisztina Kiss

12. 10. 2022.

Liszt Differently

Over the recent years, Máté Bella, Balázs Kecskés D., Bence Kutrik, Roland Szentpáli and András Gábor Virágh – aka the Studio 5 Centre for Contemporary Music – have distinguished themselves with compellingly themed project concerts. They...

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Halász Rita Photographer: Márton Neményi

12. 10. 2022.

An Evening with Rita Halász

There are sentences that should always remain unsaid. There are things that should always remain undone. Vera feels smothered in her marriage, and after a violent argument she moves out with her two young children: “Who have I been living...

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Margó Irodalmi Fesztivál és Könyvvásár Photographer: Gábor Valuska

13. 10. 2022.

Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair

The 11th edition of the autumnal Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair will await readers committed to contemporary literature at a new venue, the National Dance Theatre. As you have come to expect, there will be four days of book launches,...

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Lost Year Motel (detail), 2020 mixed media sculpture with video © Studio la Città, Verona

13. 10. 2022.

Smaller Worlds

Originally conceived as a sophisticated, painterly light show at the interface of art and entertainment, dioramas have been a favourite visual aid in natural history museums since the early 20th century. This form of presentation, combining painting...

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Magashegyi Underground Photographer: Norbert Zsólyomi

13. 10. 2022.

Magashegyi Underground

The world of poetry has never been alien to Magashegyi Underground: while they have earned recognition in the past fifteen years with catchy, distinctive radio hits, their programme has always included songs that set to music the verse of Lajos...

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Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair Photographer: Gábor Valuska

14. 10. 2022.

Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair

The 11th edition of the autumnal Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair will await readers committed to contemporary literature at a new venue, the National Dance Theatre. As you have come to expect, there will be four days of book launches,...

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Kornél Fekete-Kovács Photographer: Barna Burger

14. 10. 2022.

Senza Nome

Even during the pandemic lockdown, Hungarian jazz musicians did not rest on their laurels, new projects were formed and new pieces were written, thanks in part to the incentive provided by Müpa Budapest’s Composition Competition. Kornél...

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Henri Gonzo és a Papírsárkányok Photographer: Anett Pósalaki

14. 10. 2022.

Henri Gonzo és a Papírsárkányok

Henri Gonzo, the singer-songwriter of Fran Palermo, launched his new Hungarian-language project, Papírsárkányok (Kites) this year, with Zazie Farkas, Issiaga Camara and Dániel Gaál. After the release in 2020 of his third album, the Fonogram...

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Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair Photographer: Gábor Valuska

15. 10. 2022.

Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair

The 11th edition of the autumnal Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair will await readers committed to contemporary literature at a new venue, the National Dance Theatre. As you have come to expect, there will be four days of book launches,...

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Willie J Healey Photographer: Hollie Fernando
Black Country, New Road Photographer: Holly Whitaker
Efterklang Photographer: Dennis Morton
Charlotte Cornfield
Sister Ray
Night Beats Photographer: Hamilton Boyce

15. 10. 2022.

Isolation Budapest

Step inside Akvárium Klub for a day of some of today’s most exciting performers. For example, Westerman, whose 2020 debut record Elton John described as “much better than my first album,” is coming to Budapest. Another...

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Jörg Widmann: Das Gesicht im Spiegel (Face in the Mirror) Photographer: Armin Bardel
Jörg Widmann: Das Gesicht im Spiegel (Face in the Mirror) Photographer: Armin Bardel
Jörg Widmann: Das Gesicht im Spiegel (Face in the Mirror) Photographer: Armin Bardel
Jörg Widmann: Das Gesicht im Spiegel (Face in the Mirror) Photographer: Armin Bardel

15. 10. 2022.

Jörg Widmann: Das Gesicht im Spiegel (The Face in the Mirror) – Hungarian premiere

One of the most renowned composers and clarinettists of our time, Jörg Widmann wrote his first opera at the request of the Munich Opera Festival. The commission was for a piece that specifically addressed a contemporary, topical issue. Voted...

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Platon Karataev Photographer: Botond Wertan

15. 10. 2022.

Platon Karataev

Named after a character of Lev Tolstoy, the band was founded in Budapest in 2016. The same year they reached the finals of the Kikeltető talent contest, and their first single, Orange Nights also put them on German and British viral charts on...

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Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair Photographer: Gábor Valuska

16. 10. 2022.

Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair

The 11th edition of the autumnal Margó Literary Festival and Book Fair will await readers committed to contemporary literature at a new venue, the National Dance Theatre. As you have come to expect, there will be four days of book launches,...

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Hiatus Kaiyote Photographer: Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore

16. 10. 2022.

Hiatus Kaiyote

Formed in 2011, Hiatus Kaiyote makes music that straddles neo-soul and jazz-funk, but by their own admission, it is not easily defined by a genre; it is more of an immersive experience, a journey. The Australian band is fronted by singer-guitarist...

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Miklós Lukács Photographer: Attila Kleb
Balázs Fülei Photographer: Gábor Déber

17. 10. 2022.

Liszt and Virtuosity

Employing the formal idiom of folk music, this programme, which is based on the musical ideas of cimbalom player Dániel Szabó, seeks to reflect all that can be known about the musical taste, the popular dances and the virtuoso instrumentalists of...

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Erika Miklósa Photographer: László Emmer
Jazzical Trio Photographer: Ádám Pintér

17. 10. 2022.

Erika Miklósa and the Jazzical Trio

An internationally recognized crossover jazz pianist, Norbert Káel studied at the Berklee School in Boston, and it was there he developed his distinctive style, which is based on an organic fusion of classical music and jazz. His trio has performed...

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Ravi Coltrane Photographer: Deborah Feingold

18. 10. 2022.

Ravi Coltrane: Cosmic Music

The distinguished saxophonist, bandleader, producer and composer Ravi Coltrane has recorded six albums of his own, and has contributed to the records of such jazz legends as Joe Lovano, David Liebman and Jack DeJohnette. He was born into a family of...

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Kálmán Oláh Photographer: Béla Szalóky

19. 10. 2022.

Kálmán Oláh’s Evening with Liszt

The great pianists of the Romantic era were renowned not only for their virtuosity, which revolutionised the technique of the instrument, or their magical stage performances, but also for their improvisational skills, always ready to employ and...

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Ivan Dorn Photographer: Ksenia Kargina

19. 10. 2022.

Budapest Showcase Hub

For the seventh year running, the Budapest Showcase Hub, or BUSH, brings together the music industry and music lovers to find the rhythm the heart of the region is beating to, and to identify the latest and most interesting trends and phenomena in...

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Budapest Showcase Hub Conference Photographer: Attila Nagy / Müpa Budapest

20. 10. 2022.

Budapest Showcase Hub Conference

For the seventh year running, the Budapest Showcase Hub, or BUSH, brings together the music industry and music lovers to find the rhythm the heart of the region is beating to, and to identify the latest and most interesting trends and phenomena in...

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Daniel Levi Photographer: Iris Kivisalu
Alfah Femmes Photographer: Kamila Cwiklinska
Meteo
Sofia Zadar
The Boondocks Photographer: Martin Lauri
Lash & Grey

20. 10. 2022.

Budapest Showcase Hub Concerts

For the seventh year running, the Budapest Showcase Hub, or BUSH, brings together the music industry and music lovers to find the rhythm the heart of the region is beating to, and to identify the latest and most interesting trends and phenomena in...

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Badora Dance Company: Falling Out of Time

20. 10. 2022.

Badora Dance Company: Falling Out of Time – premiere

This unique piece transports the audience into a world where loss is not just the lack of something, but a life force, vigour that sustains us all. Sensuous and rich in musical nuances, this dance theatre production can be seen as a mythical walk...

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Budapest Showcase Hub Conference Photographer: Attila Nagy / Müpa Budapest

21. 10. 2022.

Budapest Showcase Hub Conference

For the seventh year running, the Budapest Showcase Hub, or BUSH, brings together the music industry and music lovers to find the rhythm the heart of the region is beating to, and to identify the latest and most interesting trends and phenomena in...

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Badora Dance Company: Falling Out of Time

21. 10. 2022.

Badora Dance Company: Falling Out of Time

We regret to inform our audience that the performance of Badora Dance Company entitled Falling Out of Time, scheduled for 21 October 2022 has been cancelled due to technical reasons. Tickets already purchased may be redeemed online or at the ticket...

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Brunettes Shoot Blondes
boebeck Photographer: Bendék Tamás
GranCanada
Fran Vasilić
Monikaze
teepee Photographer: Lindsay Oliver

21. 10. 2022.

Budapest Showcase Hub Concerts

For the seventh year running, the Budapest Showcase Hub, or BUSH, brings together the music industry and music lovers to find the rhythm the heart of the region is beating to, and to identify the latest and most interesting trends and phenomena in...

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Rajkó Orchestra Photographer: Gábor Valuska / Müpa
János Balázs Photographer: Attila Kleb
Jenő Lisztes

21. 10. 2022.

Rajkó 70

Founded 70 years ago in 1952, the Rajkó Orchestra is the proud recipient of numerous awards, honours and titles. Most recently, the orchestra received a particularly valuable recognition when its special programme for the music education of Roma...

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Vincent Peirani Trio Photographer: Stanislas Augris

21. 10. 2022.

Vincent Peirani: Jokers

From duo to quintet, Vincent Peirani has played in the most diverse forms of musical collaboration. The trio format he brings to Budapest is nonetheless new territory for him. In this band, which he formed with Italian guitarist Federico Casagrande...

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Víkingur Ólafsson Photographer: Ari Magg
Rafael Payare Photographer: Gerard Collett
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Photographer: Antoine Saito

22. 10. 2022.

Víkingur Ólafsson and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Víkingur Ólafsson, the brilliant, world-famous Icelandic pianist has many ties to Hungarian music, to Bartók, Ligeti and Kurtág, and, thanks to such important mentors as György Sebők and György Sándor, to a great lineage of the Hungarian piano...

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