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Early Music Festival, Palace of Arts Budapest, Now on Until 23 March

• 14 Mar 2025 8:50 AM

Early music is everything except outdated, say the organisers: "What we attempt to show with our festival is that works from past centuries are capable of providing us with surprising new experiences".

This will certainly be the case in 2025, when William Christie, one of the most important conductors in the historically informed performance of early music movement, celebrates his 80th birthday with a tour.

He will be at the helm of his ensemble, Les Arts Florissants, accompanied by an excellent cast of soloists, featuring a special programme of his favourite works.

There will also be something to celebrate at the concert by Accademia Bizantina and the Purcell Choir, namely the fact that this is Müpa Budapest’s chance to finally host the famous Italian historical ensemble - after their originally scheduled concert was cancelled due to the pandemic.

What they have in store is truly a special treat: Francesco Bartolomeo Conti’s serenata Il trionfo della Fama.

The younger generation will not be deprived of classical music thrills either.

Interspersed with new circus elements, Le Poème Harmonique’s Le Carnaval Baroque caused a sensation at the Festival Theatre back in 2012.

And now this total arts production is returning to Müpa Budapest, both as a full-length evening concert and in the form of an afternoon family concert compressed into a single hour.

More: 
mupa.hu/en/events/early-music-festival-2025

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