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Mónika Lakatos – 30 Years of Music
Jubilee Concert
It has been 30 years since Mónika Lakatos first emerged on the Hungarian and international music scenes and started building bridges between cultures through her art: an emblem and authentic representative of the Gypsy musical tradition, she has also become an integral part of the Hungarian music world as a whole. We are celebrating this milestone with a jubilee concert featuring performances by the ensembles and fellow artists who have figured heavily in her career. Starting with her 1996 debut on the television talent search programme Ki Mit Tud? (‘Who Can Do What?’) and followed by her stint as a guest musician with Romano Drom, she formed the band Romengo with her husband, Mihály Mazsi Rostás, and worked with the dynamic line-up Mónika Lakatos and the Gypsy Voices. This career spanning three decades earned her – as the first Hungarian woman and first performer of Roma origin to win one – a WOMEX Award in 2020, as well as the Kossuth Prize two years later, and is truly worthy of celebration. Her singing voice, full of awesome dramatic power, coupled with her unmatched stage presence always make for a personal testament of elemental force.
Program and cast
Romengo:
vocals: Mónika Lakatos
vocals, guitar: Mihály Mazsi Rostás
violin: Mihály Rosonczy-Kovács
double bass: Csaba Novák
jug, oral bass: János Guszti Lakatos
tub, oral bass: Tibor Balogh
vocals, guitar: Brájen Balogh
Mónika Lakatos and the Gypsy Voices:
vocals: Mónika Lakatos
vocals, guitar: Mihály Mazsi Rostás
vocals, guitar: Róbert Lakatos
jug, oral bass, cajón: Antal Máté Kovács
vocals: Krisztina Balogh
Featuring:
saxophone, recorder: Mihály Dresch
cimbalom: Miklós Lukács
vocals: Ági Szalóki
vocals: Szilvia Bognár
vocals: Antal Kovács
vocals: Guszti Balogh
harmonica, vocals: György Ferenczi
dancers: Dezső Fitos, Enikő Kocsis, Pako Horváth, Katesz Balogh, Jokó Balogh-Rostás, Zsuzsika Táncos
Palace of Arts Müpa Budapest
When Müpa Budapest, Hungary and its capital's new cultural hub, opened in 2005, it was built to represent more than 100 years of Hungarian cultural history. As a conglomeration of cultural venues, the building has no precedent in 20th century Hungarian architecture and has no peers in the whole of Central Europe.
The creators of this ambitious project, the Trigránit Development Corporation, prime contractor Arcadom Construction and the Zoboki, Demeter and Partners Architectural Office, were driven by the desire to create a new European cultural citadel as part of the new Millennium City Centre complex along the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Danube waterfront. The result is a facility whose construction quality, appearance, functionality and 21st century technological infrastructure makes it ideally suited to productions of the highest standard. The building is also highly versatile and equipped to host performances of any genre and almost any scale.
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