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.
JazzTime
29-31 August 2025
The time for cathartic jazz is upon us once again! At the JazzTime festival, the biggest global names in the genre will conjure up an incomparable atmosphere in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall – in tandem with the cream of Hungarian bands. Three special sets of talent, three unforgettable evenings.
Mozart expedition – The Don Giovanni effect
9-13 September 2025
Why has the figure of Don Juan captured the imaginations of artists, thinkers and audiences for centuries? Our joint mini-festival with the Budapest Festival Orchestra is set to help solve this mystery through opera and dance performances, a literary evening, a panel discussion, and film screenings.
Liszt Fest
9–22 October 2025
Launched on the 210th anniversary of Ferenc Liszt’s birth, the Liszt Fest International Cultural Festival presents leading artists and the latest productions of the Hungarian and the international scene. Liszt’s work is marked by superb quality, a diversity of genres and richness of forms, and these values are also essential for the Liszt Fest.
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.
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!
