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“One is only an instrument played by the universe. A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything”, said Mahler, and this closeness to nature seems most manifest in his Symphony No. 3. The last time that the longest symphony in the history of music was performed by Mahler specialist Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra was ten years ago.

Vladimir Kostadinović has come a long way since being introduced to the Hungarian audience as a young talent at the 2013 Jazz Showcase.

Jazzbois first burst onto the scene at the 2017 Müpa Budapest Jazz Showcase. By 2023, they were hosting Kaláka as guests at the Festival Theatre, and, a couple of years later, they were conquering major international festivals: the Leverkusener Jazztage, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Jazz à Vienne, and the Montreal Jazz Festival, to name but a few. Jamie Cullum also dedicated an entire BBC radio show to the band, including a conversation with Viktor Sági.

A Voices of the Future – A jövő hangjai Magyarország egyik legnagyobb, középiskolásokat megszólító kulturális programja, amelyben ötszáz diák vállalkozik arra, hogy hónapokon át együtt készüljön, majd a Müpa színpadán adja elő a zeneirodalom kiemelkedő alkotásait.

Purcell: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary – March, Z. 860 Elgar: Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40 Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33a – Four Sea Interludes

After recording operas by Rameau and his contemporaries, György Vashegyi now conducts Armide, the masterpiece by Louis XIV’s court composer, Jean-Baptiste Lully. Lully’s final lyric tragedy premiered in 1686 and was performed at the Paris Opera until 1766, when it was overshadowed by Gluck’s version of the story based on the same libretto.

Age: 3-7 year

In March, the Gallery Concerts series takes listeners on a journey through the organ music of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

This festive concert by Concerto Budapest, conducted by former Kurtág student András Keller and featuring world-class soloists, presents a cross-section of the 100-year-old György Kurtág's oeuvre.

Season Ticket ‘Lehel’

Műsor: Beethoven: Esz-dúr szonáta, op. 7 Beethoven: Hat bagatell, op. 126 Schubert: B-dúr szonáta, D. 960

Approx until: 9.30 pm

Concert-format opera performance in three acts, with one intermission, in Russian

An elegantly light repast that feels like it could be served in an aristocratic Viennese palace – under crystal chandeliers and accompanied by delicately tinkling cutlery and heavenly music.

Nosferatu returns to walk among us: the renaissance of vampire stories on screen and stage is no coincidence, as they still encapsulate our deepest fears, desires, and questions about mortality.

A kortárs zene élő legendáját, a százéves Kurtág Györgyöt köszönti az évad művésze, az izlandi zongoraművész, Víkingur Ólafsson, akinek Goldberg-variációk-felvétele 2025-ben elnyerte a Grammy-díjat, és aki szoros munkakapcsolatban áll a magyar komponistával.

It has been 30 years since Mónika Lakatos first emerged on the Hungarian and international music scenes and started building bridges between cultures through her art: an emblem and authentic representative of the Gypsy musical tradition, she has also become an integral part of the Hungarian music world as a whole.

Wandering Gypsies leading adventurous lives and gallant yet ridiculous nobles abusing their power are the main characters of the animated film Szaffi. This adaptation of Mór Jókai's classic novel The Gypsy Baron is by now familiar to several generations of Hungarians.

Mozart was insatiably in love with life. He embraced everything considered “sinful”: wine, cards, billiards. And his passion extended to musical ornaments: flowery acciaccaturas, trills, cadences others dared not risk, and chromatic runs.

BARTÓK FUNDAMENTUM - Christoph Eschenbach MŰSOR Bartók: I. hegedűrapszódia, BB 94b Bartók: II. zongoraverseny, BB 101 Bartók: Concerto zenekarra, BB 123 KÖZREMŰKÖDIK Kelemen Gáspár - hegedű Tzimon Barto - zongora VEZÉNYEL Christoph Eschenbach

Among the artists who have already appeared at Müpa Budapest, it is the return of esperanza spalding that has been anticipated longest and most eagerly. As the years have passed, she has become ever harder to pin down, and her sphere of interest now extends far beyond singing and playing the bass: She now defines herself as a composer, poet, dancer, therapist, storyteller, educator, community builder, and even as an advocate for soil regeneration.

Jakub Józef Orliński is one of the most exciting performing artists of our time.