Series, festivals
A constant presence at Müpa Budapest is the combination of permanence and continuous renewal. And as part of this, we are always delighted to welcome our visitors for numerous popular programme series and festivals that we run year after year.
Regardless of whether they are looking for classical or popular music, jazz, landmark cinema, or a children's programme offering lifelong experiences, members of every age group can find performances that will interest them. Our series and festivals feature the most diverse possible array of genres, composers and artists celebrating the diversity of culture: proof positive that nobody will be bored or be deprived of the standard they are accustomed to experiencing. This page lists our current offering: find what you like and select your favourites!
The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD
1 September 2025 - 30 June 2026
The Metropolitan Opera in New York once again promises its global audience a winning formula of familiar hits, operatic rarities and contemporary delights. The season comprising eight performances offers a veritable parade of divas.
Budapest Wagner Days
5-30 June 2026
A double helping of the Ring to mark a double anniversary: we are celebrating two significant Wagnerian milestones at the Budapest Wagner Festival in 2026. It has been 150 years since the entire Ring tetralogy was first heard at the Bayreuth Festival – and with a Hungarian, János Richter, conducting – and visitors to the festival at Müpa Budapest have been enjoying the incomparable atmosphere of Hungary’s Wagner fiesta for 20 years.
Rising Stars
14-16 November 2025
In mid November each year, the stars come down from the sky and descend upon Müpa’s Festival Theatre as the ECHO Rising Stars series introduces Europe’s most tantalising performers and calls upon them to dazzle the continent’s top concert halls with their dedication to their craft and outstanding talent. Getting invited on the programme is a major achievement as the performers are nominated by leading concert halls and given the opportunity to prove their worth in front of an international audience.
Jazz Showcase
30 January – 1 February 2026
The 19th Jazz Showcase will be all the more remarkable this time around. Alongside young Hungarian jazz musicians, emerging artists from the Serbian jazz scene will also have the opportunity to perform. Central Europe’s most significant jazz talent showcase is opening its doors wider than ever as part of the Hungarian-Serbian cultural season. In all other respects, the format of the Jazz Showcase remains unchanged: six young ensembles selected by a preliminary jury will perform free concerts, held daily from 4.30 pm in the Festival Theatre.
English Marathon: Purcell – Elgar - Britten
15 February 2026
The Baroque heights will be scaled by Henry Purcell through the vocal works of the British Orpheus who was comparable to Mozart both in terms of his genius and brevity of life, England’s imperialist bluster will be captured in the instrumental pieces of Edward Elgar, who was both a gentleman and a composer, and the pieces of Benjamin Britten will represent the turbulent 20th century just as they harken back to a more distant past. The 11 concerts of the series will once again feature Hungary’s finest musicians on stage.
Early Music Festival
8 February – 29 March 2026
The 2026 Early Music Festival at Müpa Budapest will once again spotlight the genre’s diversity and exceptional performers. The series opens with the popular Handel opera, Giulio Cesare. The festival’s second evening unearths some rare gems: the French formation Ensemble Correspondances, led by Sébastien Daucé, brings to life the music of the 17th-century Swedish court with the help of the remarkable mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot. The series concludes with Bach’s monumental Mass in B Minor.
Jazz Spring
8–10 May 2026
Now running for more than two decades, Jazz Spring always sets its standards high: for the 22nd time, the festival will be offering up the most delectable treats in the genre. On Friday and Sunday at the Festival Theatre, visitors can delight in the music of the future, and conclude that this future is dazzlingly bright. On Saturday, in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, a new chapter of a quarter-century success story will be unveiled, one interwoven with Hungarian threads.
Gallery Concerts
1 September 2024 - 30 June 2025
Müpa Budapest’s Gallery Concerts series not only offers you the chance to experience the unique sound of what is considered one of the world’s finest concert hall organs, it will also allow you to see the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall – literally – in a completely different light. The other unique feature about our approximately one-hour organ concerts is that visitors watch them exclusively from the galleries.
Müpa Film Club - 110 Years of Hungarian Animation
1 September 2024 - 30 June 2025
Reality is a fine thing, but sometimes it’s even better to switch it off with the push of a button. Or simply by purchasing a cinema ticket. This series introduces the most free-spirited artists in the history of Hungarian animated film, ones who have helped millions of viewers around the world get a little closer to the realm of dreams, where neither the stubborn laws of physics nor the rules of grey everyday life operate in the familiar fashion!
