It’s always a real pleasure when the Városmajor Open-Air Stage opens its doors, because top theatre performances and super concerts are guaranteed for the summer season. This revered entertainment venue in Buda, which has been renovated inside and out, is putting on 80 productions, premieres, musical performances and literary presentations, children’s events, dance and theatre shows, plus screenings of domestic and international films. Much is staged in Hungarian – including a premiere of ‘Hundred Years of Major’ to mark the venue’s centenary – but there are also plenty of live music shows to look forward to, starting from 10 June.
Amid a varied and wide-ranging agenda of theatre shows and literary presentations, a whole summer of music is promised at the Városmajor Open-Air Stage. Classical and pop, jazz, indie, traditional, crossover and world music will all be featured.
Well-known Hungarian performers and bands take the spotlight, such as folk singer Bea Palya and jazz legends, the Benkó Dixieland Band. The frenetic couple of Eszter Horgas and Mariann Falusi also hit the stage with Péter Kálloy Molnár.
Funky rockers Honeybeast and Margit Bangó, accompanied by Swing à la Django, will be making their Városmajor debuts. Pécs literary rocker Zoli Beck returns with his band, 30Y, to present their acoustic Resti show, with special guest Zoltán Mucsi of Kapa. Alt-rock legends Péter Müller Sziámi & Friends also tread the boards.
For the first time, composer Sándor Födő has written music using the full text of an ancient Jewish prayer or kaddish by the Hungarian poet Hanna Szenes, executed in 1944, and the poems of Ernő Szép.
On Saturday and Sunday mornings, children take centre stage. On 12 June, popular singer and actress Judit Halász opens a series of children’s concerts, with Kaláka, the Alma Együttes, the Bori Rutkai Band and Ági Szalóki all lined up to play.
Venue information
Városmajor Open-Air Stage
1122 Budapest, Városmajor
Concert dates here
Children's events here
Ticket office: 1122 Budapest, Szamos utca 2B
Open: Daily 3pm-7pm & from 9.30am (children's shows) or 3pm on the day of performances
