Musical tales
It's been more than ten years since we launched our musical theatre magic show, which charms children aged four to nineteen. In Musical Tales, our theatre artists perform excerpts from some of the best-loved musicals and cartoons for young and old, including The Wizard of Oz, The Lion King, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, Madagascar, Vuk and Hugo the Hippo.
Schedule
The show's unique visuals are just as exciting for adults, as everything moves on and around the stage, from the orchestra pit to the risers, from the iron curtain to the set. The popular production returns to the stage of the Budapest Operetta Theatre in a new guise for the 2019/20 season.
Budapest Operetta & Musical Theatre
The institution is a two-tiered, true musical folk theatre, which stages Hungarian operettas and their contemporary successors, contemporary Hungarian musicals, along with several literary-historical musicals for youth. It plays around 500 performances a year to nearly 400,000 spectators, making it one of Hungary's most visited theatres today.
It is recognised worldwide as the only operetta sung and performed by Hungarians, with its dynamic music, passion, fire, acrobatic dancing, rich visuals and stunning sensory-emotional storms. When the Budapest Operetta Theatre premiered The Queen of the Cards in Germany, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "There are many places in many cities where you can listen to good music. There is only one sure address for the operetta: Budapest, Nagymező utca 17."
The company tours regularly abroad, having performed operettas, musicals and gala performances in countries from Europe to Asia. In the autumn of 2011, the Budapest Operetta Theatre won the exclusive German-language rights to perform Beauty and the Beast, a musical based on one of the world's most beautiful fairy tales, in a close international competition. The Superbrands and MagyarBrands award-winning institution regularly organises prestigious international music competitions.
