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Bridging Europe Festival, National Concert Hall Budapest, 16 - 22 September

• 6 Sep 2024 8:16 AM

This joint initiative by Müpa Budapest and the Budapest Festival Orchestra always lends an exciting flavour to the start of the Fall season: besides classical concerts, it also features jazz, pop and world music, as well as film screenings.

At the centre of each instalment over the years of this event series launched in 2013 has been a country or group of countries with a rich and diverse culture and significant musical traditions – as a country’s music says a great deal about its inhabitants.

In 2021, the concept behind the festival was changed: although the focus remains on Europe, within this context we now partner each year with another city known as a bastion of culture.

There is a symbolic reason why the choice fell on the Belgian capital this year: Hungary is slated to take over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from Belgium this summer, so this fest is building a bridge between Budapest and Brussels, offering several productions in both Budapest and Brussels that feature major artists from both cities joining forces.

Budapest Program:

* Brussels Jazz Orchestra & Philip Catherine, Bert Joris, David Linx
16 September 2024, 8 pm Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Ticket prices:3200 - 12900 HUF

* Selah Sue
18 September 2024, 8 pm Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Ticket prices:4900 - 18900 HUF

* Joint Concert by the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra
20 September 2024, 7:45 pm Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Ticket prices:4200 - 24500 HUF

* ZAP MAMA x K.ZIA
20 September 2024, 8 pm Festival Theatre
Ticket prices:4200 - 9000 HUF

* The Brand New Testament (Le Tout Nouveau Testament, 2015)
21 September 2024, 7 pm Auditorium
Ticket prices:3500 - 5500 HUF

* Joint Concert by the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra
21 September 2024, 7:45 pm Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Ticket prices:4200 - 24500 HUF

* Gaïsha
21 September 2024, 8 pm Festival Theatre
Ticket prices:3900 - 7000 HUF

* Joint Concert by the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra
22 September 2024, 3:30 pm Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Ticket prices:4200 - 24500 HUF

* King of the Belgians (2016)
22 September 2024, 7 pm Auditorium
Ticket prices:3500 - 5500 HUF

* TaxiWars
22 September 2024, 8 pm Festival Theatre
Ticket prices:4200 - 9000 HUF
 

Tickets and more:
mupa.hu/en

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