When it comes to a meeting of the musical and the culinary, those listeners with a grasp of opera history will think of Gioacchino Rossini. As a talented, prolific and successful opera composer, he gave up music at the age of 36 to spend much of his time exploring the art of cooking. The overture to The Barber of Seville, one of his best known works, is a procession of his musical arsenal that showcases Italian temperament and wit in equal measure. It could be said that Ottorino Respighi was in ...love with the Italian capital. His first great success came through the orchestral piece Fountains of Rome, which was followed by two further works on a Roman theme, Pines of Rome and Roman Festivals. The middle work of this Roman trilogy explores the various districts of the city through the following movements: I. The Pines of Villa Borghese; II. Pines near a catacomb. III. The Pines of Janiculum. IV. The Pines of the Appian Way. The piece to close the concert is a genuine hit, and one of the best known pieces of music from the European – and primarily Italian – genre of Wild West films known as the Spaghetti Westerns (yet another culinary reference). The audience will no doubt be familiar with extracts from the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in the West by Ennio Morricone, the uncrowned king of music for the silver screen.
Parking information
We wish to inform you that in the event that Müpa Budapest's underground garage and outdoor car park are operating at full capacity, it is advisable to plan for increased waiting times when you arrive. In order to avoid this, we recommend that you depart for our events in time, so that you you can find the ideal parking spot quickly and smoothly and arrive for our performance in comfort. The Müpa Budapest underground garage gates will be operated by an automatic number plate recognition system. Parking is free of charge for visitors with tickets to any of our paid performances on that given day. The detailed parking policy of Müpa Budapest is available here.
Safe ticket purchase
Dear Visitors, please note that only tickets purchased from the Müpa website and official ticket offices are guaranteed to be valid. To avoid possible inconvenience, we suggest buying tickets to our performances and concerts via the mupa.hu website, the Interticket national network (jegy.hu) or at our official ticket offices.