Theatre

Giuseppe Verdi
DON CARLO
Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Gaetano Donizetti
DON PASQUALE
Comic opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Claude Debussy
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE
Opera in two parts, in five acts, in French with Hungarian and English surtitles

Sir Kenneth MacMillan / Jules Massenet / Martin Yates
MANON
Ballet in three acts

Richard Wagner
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN)
Opera in one act, in German, with Hungarian, English, and German subtitles

Giuseppe Verdi
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Opera in three parts, in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Giacomo Puccini
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST)
Opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Amilcare Ponchielli
LA GIOCONDA
Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Dance drama based on Mihály Munkácsy’s works

Carl Orff
CARMINA BURANA
Scenic cantata in the original languages, with Hungarian, English, and same-language subtitles

Radina Dace / Pjotr Iljics Csajkovszkij
LITTLE SWAN LAKE
Children’s production for little ones
Please note, that this programme is in Hungarian and we do not provide any translations.

Johan Inger – William Forsythe – Hans van Manen – Sol León – Paul Lightfoot
FRENETIC DANCE
Four one-act ballet in three parts

For kindergarten and elementary school children

Attila Toronykőy
OPERA TOUR WITH PAPAGENO
60-minute guided tour of the Opera House. For primary school children.
Please note that this programme is in in Hungarian and we do not provide any translations.

Claudio Monteverdi – Máté Bella
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA (THE CORONATION OF POPPEA) – OPERA EXAM
Opera in three acts, in Italian with Hungarian and English surtitles

János Vajda
THE IMAGINARY INVALID OR THE CABAL OF HYPOCRITES
Opera in two acts, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English surtitles

Born in 1982, Dénes Krusovszky enjoyed one of the most successful starts to a career of any Hungarian writer in the 2000s. Today, he has grown into one of the most distinctive and definitive writers not just of his generation, but of contemporary Hungarian literature as a whole.

Ballet school showcase in two parts

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Gian Carlo Menotti
BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE / THE TELEPHONE
One-act operas in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English subtitles

The world premiere of László Dubrovay's dance drama Faust, the Damned took place at Müpa Budapest in 2016, as part of the Budapest Spring Festival. This large-scale production inspired by Goethe's masterpiece debuted on the main stage of the National Theatre of Pécs in the 2023/24 season, and will run again in 2024 at Müpa Budapest's Festival Theatre.

Medieval ballads often gave a voice to the position of women in society, whether they were elevated to heaven or simply reduced to dust. Female destinies will come to life during the song programme The Girl Who Was Taken to Heaven, where we will hear a bouquet of medieval Hungarian folk ballads.

An overview of the half-century career of Zsófia Balla and her work at the forefront of contemporary Hungarian lyric poetry promises to be a true celebration of the art. Born in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) and originally trained as a violinist, she became one of the central figures in Transylvania's Hungarian literary and intellectual scene before moving to Hungary in 1993.

Giuseppe Verdi
REQUIEM
Staged oratorio in Latin, with Hungarian, English, and Latin subtitles

It could hardly be said that Zsigmond Móricz is an unknown figure in Hungarian literature. But to what extent does his image reflect the sheer diversity of his life's work? In recent decades, Zsófia Szilágyi's in-depth analysis of Móricz has done much to make the multifaceted nature of the author more accessible.

Márton Simon is one of the most exciting and creative authors in contemporary Hungarian literature, a pivotal member of its middle generation of writers. The slammer, performer and poet has followed his own path from the very beginning and now can boast thousands of followers and readers.

This full-evening "crime story" of a dance drama takes as its starting point Barcsai's Lover, one of the most estimable of Hungary's balladic treasures. After cuckolding her husband, a wife awaits a terrible punishment. But how did things actually get to this point?

Sándor Csoóri is primarily known in the Hungarian collective memory for his political activity during the 1980s and the subsequent fall of Communism. Yet Csoóri is also an integral part of the era's literary history.

Ronald Hynd / Ferenc Lehár
THE MERRY WIDOW
Comic ballet in three acts

Charles Gounod
FAUST
Opera in five acts, in French with Hungarian, English, and French subtitles

János Vajda / Béla Bartók
MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN / BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE
One act operas, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English surtitles

Richard Wagner
PARSIFAL
Bühnenweihfestspiel in three acts, in German, with Hungarian, English, and German subtitles

9TH IVÁN NAGY INTERNATIONAL BALLET GALA
The World of Ballet Remembers a Hungarian Legend

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
IDOMENEO, RE DI CRETA
Opera seria in three acts, two parts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Comic opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles