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A guide to damnation Stravinsky Rake's progress

February 13 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

The concert is a grotesque, musical stage play based on Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, as part of the Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra's ZenePlusz series, at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall of Müpa Budapest.

Date, venue, tickets

  • Date: 13 February 2026, 19:30.

  • Venue: Müpa Budapest - Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, 1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.

  • Ticket prices: 5 900 HUF, 6 900 HUF, 7 900 HUF, 8 900 HUF, 11 900 HUF in categories.

  • Tickets: available on the Müpa Budapest website and in the jegy.hu / Interticket network (e.g. bdz.jegy.hu, koncerthu.jegy.hu).

Nature of the performance, story

  • Genre: „Guide to Damnation” - a musical play based on Stravinsky's only opera, The Rake's Progress.

  • Plot: Tom, the protagonist, is an ordinary young man lured by the promise of easy riches and fame; he makes a Faustian bargain with the satanic Nick, leaves his love and falls into a dream world of effortless success that ultimately leads to damnation.

  • Mood: parodic, grotesque, with many comic elements, it resonates with the problems of today's social media-influenced world, making it easily accessible to young audiences.

Contributors and production

  • Orchestra: the Budafok Dohnányi Orchestra.

  • Among the performers: the Cantemu Choir of Nyíregyháza and the Budapest Academic Choral Society.

  • The production runs as a staged performance under the aegis of the orchestra, in a grotesque, theatrical form.

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