Theatre

Boris Eifman / ifj. Johann Strauss
THE PYGMALION EFFECT
Ballet in two acts

Artistic director and director-choreographer Balázs Vincze is very familiar with the tastes of dance aficionados partial to the traditions of bourgeois theatre and is superb at adapting familiar and popular literary classics to the dance stage. His wonderful sense of proportion enables audiences to follow plots in the language of dance. His contemporary choreographies built on classical foundations are unique, spectacular and of a high professional calibre without losing sight of the need to please the audience.

Rudi van Dantzig – Toer van Schayk / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SWAN LAKE
Classical ballet in three acts

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?

Gaetano Donizetti
LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
Comic opera in two acts, in French, with spoken dialogues in Hungarian, with Hungarian, English, and French subtitles

Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA
Opera in three parts, four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Sergei Prokofiev
ВОЙНА И МИР (WAR AND PEACE)
Contemporary Opera
Opera in thirteen scenes, in two parts, in Russian with Hungarian and English subtitles

Wayne Eagling – Tamás Solymosi / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
THE NUTCRACKER
Fairy-tale ballet in two acts

After earning tremendous critical and popular acclaim at last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, IMA is returning to Müpa Budapest, again playing in a tent set up next to the building.

Some people need to immerse themselves in the world of a true classic every evening: this family fairy tale ballet by the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company gives every member of the family the opportunity to do just that.

Giuseppe Verdi
RIGOLETTO
Opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Georges Bizet
CARMEN
Opera in four acts, in French, with Hungarian, English, and French subtitles

The World of Ballet Remembers a Hungarian Legend

Giuseppe Verdi
RIGOLETTO
Opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian English and Italian subtitles

Giuseppe Verdi
LA TRAVIATA
Opera in two parts, three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English and Italian subtitles

Ferenc Erkel
BÁNK BÁN (THE VICEROY BÁNK)
Opera three acts, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English subtitles
The text and musical material for the production have been created using both the original and the baritone versions

Anna-Marie Holmes – Tamás Solymosi / Adolphe Adam
LE CORSAIRE
Classical ballet in three acts

Giuseppe Verdi
LA TRAVIATA
Opera in two parts, three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Giacomo Puccini
TURANDOT
Opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Adolphe Adam
LITTLE CORSAIRE
Children’s production

Giuseppe Verdi
OTELLO
Opera in two parts, four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

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

Zoltán Kodály
THE SPINNING ROOM
Folk scenes in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English subtitles

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

A Székely gate is a symbol of ancient power, faith, hope, belonging to God, a channel of communication between heaven and earth. Its three posts represent the unity of body, soul and spirit, and its carvings are symbols that render protection, grace and blessing.

Gaetano Donizetti
MARIA STUARDA
Opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

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

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

Daniel Auber
FRA DIAVOLO, BANDIT OPERA IN TWO PARTS
Opera in three acts, two parts, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English surtitles

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

The Gershwins®
PORGY AND BESS®
Opera in three acts, in English, with Hungarian and English subtitles
By: George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin

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