Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre, a pioneer of electronic music, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of *Oxygène* and the release of his new album with a major European tour.
Schedule
Jean-Michel Jarre has announced his international tour, *OXYGENE & BEYOND*, which will kick off in Europe in the autumn of 2027. The concert series will also visit Budapest on 29 September 2027, when the French electronic music legend will take to the stage at the MVM Dome. The tour pays tribute to the 50th anniversary of the release of *Oxygene*, whilst also giving the audience a taste of tracks from Jarre’s new album, due out in spring 2027.
OXYGENE & BEYOND invites you on a captivating journey into the composer’s unique world of space and time, whilst also offering a glimpse into the next era of creative revolution. The tour’s first stops will be major European cities: he will perform at The O2 in London and the Co-op Live Arena in Manchester, as well as giving concerts in Katowice, Łódź, Gdańsk, Cluj-Napoca, Budapest, Berlin, Prague, Brussels and Barcelona, whilst in Amsterdam and Paris he will entertain audiences over several evenings. OXYGENE & BEYOND will continue as a world tour in 2028.
“This tour celebrates the beginnings – how it all started – whilst encouraging us to imagine what comes next. After all, the adventure continues,” said Jean-Michel Jarre.
MVM Dome
MVM Dome is the seventh largest indoor event venue in Europe. Its capacity for sports events and concerts is significantly higher than that of the Budapest Sports Arena.
It has 20,022 seats; a total of 50,000 square metres of floor space; innovative, rearrangeable spaces for many indoor sports (handball, basketball and volleyball, futsal, ice hockey, tennis, skating) as well as certain athletic, equestrian and motorcycle competitions, and even swimming competitions and water polo matches in the mobile pool.
Through the six entrances to the building, spectators can enter the arena’s interior using eight escalators, leading to the walk-through grandstands accessible on three levels.
The structure of the building’s exterior is reminiscent of muscle fibres: the light strips placed on the outward-leaning, elliptical sections not only embrace the building, but the light shows, programmed using various colours, appear to set the entire building in motion.
There is a 600 square metre display on the façade of the building.
The Main Entrance leads to an impressive foyer, where visitors will be greeted by a grandiose hanging light installation of 848 handmade glass tubes.
The programmable sports lighting is also suitable for HDTV broadcasts of the highest-level world competitions, as well as for super-slow-motion recordings due to flicker free technology.
The lighting system also plays an important role in the events and concerts, as it is suitable for changing the colour temperature of the auditorium, which means that the lighting functions can be changed without rearranging the arena, only through the pre-programmed lighting controls. This design is the first and is unique in Europe for luminaires of this power.
A central display (cube) provides information in the auditorium during the events.
