Theatre

For kindergarten and elementary school children

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.

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

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

Modest Mussorgsky
BORIS GODUNOV
Opera in four acts with a prologue, in Russian, with Hungarian, English, and Russian subtitles

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

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

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

Giuseppe Verdi
RIGOLETTO
Opera in three 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

Pursuing happiness, love and affection through countless adventures across this great wide world, but still eventually finding a final peace in the arms of his beloved, Peer Gynt is one of the most complex characters in 19th-century drama. The challenges of staging and absorbing the play are always exceptional tests of strength for the director and the audience.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The World of Ballet Remembers a Hungarian Legend

Ballet school showcase in two parts

Giacomo Puccini
LA BOHÈME
Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Adolphe Adam
LITTLE CORSAIRE
Children’s production

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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