Bartoli, Kaufmann, Harding to return to Budapest in 2025/26 season
Superstar opera singers Jonas Kaufmann and Cecilia Bartoli and renowned British conductor Daniel Harding, and The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic will return to the Müpa in Budapest in the 2025/26 season.
Harding will lead the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in a concert of romantic repertoire, while Paavo Jarvi and the London Philharmonic Orchestra will perform one work each by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius, Müpa said on Thursday.
Pianist VÃkingur Olafsson and cellist and conductor Istvan Vardai will team up to perform Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, with Haydn’s last symphony also on the programme.
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For the first time in Hungary, audiences will be able to see Oscar-winning Tan Dun’s latest work, Tea – A Mirror of the Soul, Müpa said. Christina Pluhar and her early music ensemble, Ensemble L’Arpeggiata, will perform Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, with Emoke Barath in the role of Dido.
Countertenor breakdancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski will arrive at the Early Music Festival in the title role of Handel’s opera Giulio Cesare, accompanied by Il Pomo d’Oro, while the Munich Radio Orchestra will take to the stage with Simon Boccanegra.
Müpa will pay tribute to the lifework of György Kurtág, who will turn 100 next year, with a film screening and panel discussion, while VÃkingur Olafsson, among others, will greet the master at his birthday concert.
Ambrose Akinmusire and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra will commemorate Miles Davis, while Literarium Extra will celebrate Gyorgy Spiro’s 80th birthday.
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