Müpa Budapest

Müpa Budapest is one of Hungary's best known cultural brands and one of its most modern cultural institutions. It provides a home for classical, contemporary, popular and world music, not to mention jazz and opera, as well as contemporary circus, dance, literature and film. The venue opened its doors in 2005, and plays a major role in nurturing cultural relationships with other countries, in advancing Hungarian interests, and in increasing international recognition for Hungarian performing artists. An active member of European largest organisation for concert halls (ECHO), Müpa Budapest promotes professional exchange and helps the career of young exceptional artists, teaming up with venues like the Barbican Centre London, Sage Gateshead and the Town Hall & Symphony Hall Birmingham.

Müpa's multi-genre repertoire currently spawns to over a thousand events a year. In the past five years Hungary has been experiencing a staggering 40% rise in the number of visitors from the United Kingdom, making it the third largest tourist source country. Similarly, Hungary’s most prestigious venue attracts from year to year a growing number of some of the most outstanding British artists such as Simon Rattle, John Eliot Gardiner, Neville Marriner, Roger Norrington, Daniel Harding, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and orchestras like the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Britten Sinfonia and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. During its first 10 years, some of the most memorable performances of the Müpa Budapest have been given by Elvis Costello, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, John McLaughlin, Marianne Faithfull, The King's Singers, Hilliard Ensemble, Sam Lee, Michael Nyman, Karl Jenkins, Bryn Terfel, Jonny Greenwood and Mark Padmore, just to name a few. Movie enthusiasts can recognize the hallmark spaces of Müpa during the scenes of Ridley Scott's movie The Martian.

Müpa Budapest will announce its programme for the 2016/2017 season in March 2016.