Festival: Early Music Festival, Budapest

Every early music festival these days needs one or more star countertenors in their programme. At this year’s Müpa Budapest’s Régizene Fesztival, Valer Barna-Sabadus was featured together with homegrown soprano Emöke Bárath.

Performing a complete cycle of Brandenburg Concertos in one evening may take less time than a Wagner opera, but it is equally an epic undertaking for any Baroque ensemble.

Taking the scenic riverside tram route to Müpa in Budapest, you cannot but be impressed by the magnificent legacy of the Habsburgs in this beautiful historical city.