Budapest Concert Calendar

Experience Puccini’s third opera and his first big success, the Manon Lescaut, in Ferenc Erkel Opera Theatre Budapest. Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini, composed between 1890 and 1893. The story is based on a novel from 1731. In a bittersweet romantic story, Manon meets the young student, Des Grieux, and they fall in love. …

A rare and unique ballet performance, Delibes’ Sylvia is performed in Ferenc Erkel Opera Theatre Budapest. Sylvia, originally Sylvia, is a full-length ballet in two or three acts, first choreographed by Louis Merante to music by Leo Delibes in 1876. Sylvia, a romantic story, set in antiquity, literally places love on a pedestal in the person of the Greek god …

One of the most popular opera concerts of Puccini, Madame Butterfly, is in Ferenc Erkel Opera Theatre Budapest. Madame Butterfly is a favourite with music lovers all over the world. Based on John Luther Long’s short story, Madame Butterfly tells the tale of Ciocio-San, a 15 year old Japanese girl who becomes the bride of an American naval officer. Puccini …

Reinhard Goebel conducts the famous Budapest Festival Orchestra in a performance of Baroque music in Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest. The concert will take us through all the key moments of Italian, French, Czech and German Baroque music. Concert Venue: Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest Concert Date: 8 June, 2019 at 19:45 pm;  9 June, 2019 at 15:30 …

One of the most popular opera concert double-headers of all times in Ferenc Erkel Opera Theatre Budapest. Cavalleria Rusticana – I Pagliacci, or Cav and Pag” is how opera lovers have referred to the two twin works, are two short operas, where obsession, love and jealousy give rise to explosive emotions and passionate music. Cavalleria Rusticina is an opera played …

Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest welcomes Budapest Festival Orchestra on stage again – together with some of the most recognised musicians of nowadays – on a fantastic and unique orchestral concert in June. Leonidas Kavakos is a soloist considered as simply outstanding by each and every member of the Festival Orchestra, while Gautier Capuçon is the 21st century’s ambassador …

The Budapest Festival Orchestra is back again in Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest, performing on a superb and unique Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Verdi concert. We hear the sounds of a fateful evening game, a romance, a graceful waltz and heartfelt prayer, until the sound of victory explodes from Tchaikovsky’s symphony. Concert Venue: Franz Liszt Academy of Music Budapest Concert …

International ballet gala night in Ferenc Erkel Opera Theatre Budapest. Internationally renowned ballet dancer and ballet director Ivan Nagy passed away in 2014. After returning to Hungary, he had committed himself to the service of his homeland and worked with us again as a consultant to the Hungarian State Opera. In his memory, each year an international ballet gala night …

A unique violin concert in the beautiful Franz Liszt Music Academy Budapest. For this recital, two of the most active and skilled violinists of their generation and of Hungarian classical music life take to the stage together. Concert Venue: Franz Liszt Music Academy Budapest Concert Date: May 1, 2019 Concert Begins at: 19:30 Booking: book your tickets for this Budapest …

A unique percussion concert in the beautiful Franz Liszt Music Academy Budapest. Celebrating their 35. anniversary, Amadinda is regarded as one of the most original and versatile percussion groups in the world. The group has also collaborated with renowned artists in the past decades like Zoltan Kocsis, Andras Schiff, and Gyorgy Kurtag. Concert Venue: Franz Liszt Music Academy Budapest Concert …