The Mézesvölgyi Nyár 2026 turns Veresegyház into Pest County’s biggest open-air, cross-arts playground from June to August, stacking crowd-pleasing plays, blockbuster concerts, and family favorites into warm nights on Búcsú tér. It’s built for all ages: knockabout farce, classic novels reborn as musicals, cult rock operas, stand-up, crime drama, and megastar gigs—quality acts in the summer breeze, under serious lights, with serious fun.
Where and when
Address: 2112 Veresegyház, Búcsú tér. Events run across the season, with highlights punctuating every weekend and plenty of midweek treats. Local lodging and plentiful food and drink options orbit the square, making it easy to turn a show into a full evening out.
June ignition: Charlie’s voice, Mohácsi’s whirl
June 21: Charlie concert. The unmistakable giant of Hungarian pop, Horváth Charlie, brings his smoky blues, swaggering jazz, and straight-up Hungarian rock to the summer stage. Expect evergreen anthems—from Jég dupla jéggel to Nézz az ég felé—belting out in a multigenerational chorus beneath the Veresegyház night sky.
June 24: István Mohácsi’s Francia rúdugrás (Pole Vaulting; 18+). Three women, three men—call it a sextet—and a night where roles flip like a coin in a storm. Chemistry tangles with a know-it-all sex psychologist, misunderstandings multiply, and the hope is that after all the “half-… uh” mishaps, it lands happily ever after.
July goes big: farces, rock opera, and literary legends
July 3: Neil Simon’s Rumors (Pletykafészek). Sit back and track gossip ricocheting through the upper crust as the one percent get themselves magnificently stuck. Two acts of pure Simon mischief.
July 4: Stephen, the King (István, a király) — concert. Hungary’s most successful rock opera turns monumental on a jubilee tour, uniting star singer-actors, Crescendo Music Orchestra pros, and top-of-the-line lighting, visuals, and animation. Expect moving set pieces and pyrotechnics to match the scale of the score.
July 7: László Dés – Péter Geszti – Krisztián Grecsó: The Paul Street Boys (A Pál utcai fiúk). The classic isn’t kids’ play here; it’s youth versus youth, tougher and rawer, charged with modern sonics and lyrics. Acoustic objects, actor-driven rhythm, creativity, humor, and the source’s cathartic punch power the show.
July 8: The Paul Street Boys (A Pál utcai fiúk) — musical in two parts. The twin staging keeps the intensity high, again framing the timeless conflict through today’s sound, youthful energy, and the tactile music of things on stage.
July 12: The Jungle Book (A dzsungel könyve). Mowgli, the boy who beats his enemies and hunts for happiness among thick leaves—an unmissable, heart-squeezing, heart-warming tale about friendship and love for kids and the young at heart.
July 15: Jeanie Linders: Menopause The Musical (Menopauza). That time of life everyone whispers about goes loud, honest, and uproariously funny. A global hit turns change into a shared punchline—and a celebration.
July 19: Péter Geszti concert. The frontman of positive energy storms in with Rapülők stadium-shakers, Jazz+Az funk, Gringó Sztár flair, and Létvágy pop delicacies. Big live band, sharp staging, humor, and frank lyrics—feel-good turned up.
July 21–22: You Rang, M’Lord? (Csengetett, Mylord?) — world premiere. The beloved TV characters land onstage in Veresegyház for two nights, promising a summer evening steeped in nostalgia, quickfire lines, and house-staff hijinks come to life.
July 26: Steven Moffat: The Unfriend (Rém rendes vendég) — two-act comedy. Polite Brits Peter and Debbie befriend American widow Elsa on a cruise, swap addresses, and—against all odds—she shows up. Online rumors spark icy dread, adolescents complicate everything, and a nosy neighbor plus a police sergeant stir the farce. Fresh off London’s West End heat, Budapest’s Játékszín brings the truly terrible, terribly nice guest to town.
July 28: Not Now, Darling (Ne most, Drágám!) — comedy. Love triangles, mink coats, ladies in scant attire, garments flying out windows, and total bedlam—set in London’s swankiest fur salon, engineered solely for carefree laughter.
July 31: American Comedy (Amerikai komédia) — swing musical. Based on Károly Aszlányi’s 1930s hit, with book and lyrics by Attila Lőrinczy and music by multi-award winner Bálint Bársony. Directed by Károly Peller, it’s wall-to-wall humor, momentum, and swing swagger—a crowd-pleaser across generations.
August anthems: icons, crime, and big-hearted classics
August 1: It Was Just a Dance (Csak egy tánc volt) — Szécsi Pál’s greatest songs. Some songs never age; some voices live in us forever. Under the stars, Szécsi Pál’s luminous legacy unfolds, performed by Zoltán Miller, Dénes Pál, Attila Serbán, and Sándor Nagy.
August 5: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Az Ackroyd gyilkosság) — crime. Hercule Poirot retires to the sleepy English village of King’s Abbot, then two inexplicable deaths jolt the calm. Artúr Kálid steps in as Poirot, with P. Szilveszter Szabó as Dr. James Sheppard, in a bristling Agatha Christie adaptation.
August 7: Lovers of Ancona (Anconai szerelmesek) — musical comedy. A two-decade juggernaut on Hungarian stages, it blends Italian commedia tradition with Hungarian humor and the 1970s’ most beloved Italian hits—sunny, cheeky, endlessly singable.
August 8: Quimby concert. One of the summer’s big gigs: the band’s singular sound and iconic tracks in the open air—a signature Veresegyház night for anyone chasing atmosphere and live-wire connection.
August 11: Lovers of Ancona at Lake Balaton (Anconai szerelmesek a Balatonon) — musical comedy. Twenty calendar years later—but hearts stuck in that same moment—our Italian crew decamps to Hungary’s Lake Balaton in the hot, hope-filled summer of 1989. There’s Békés, the SZOT resort boss, there are bell-ringing bel canto bangers—Azzurro, Bella Ciao, Sono l’italiano—and there’s plenty of love, roots, and redemption to go around.
August 15: One Life (Egy életem) — biographical stand-up with Imre Csuja. He tells it as we know him: modest, funny, warming. Childhood, early career grind, days with four shows, lessons from the greats, meeting his wife over 40 years ago—and delicious behind-the-scenes crumbs from Glass Tiger (Üvegtigris) and A Kind of America (Valami Amerika).
August 18: Beyond Smudge Mountain? (Túl a Maszat-hegyen?) — comedy. A world where mess is order and cleaning is chaos. Andris Muhi quests to save friends from blobs, dusters, and ruthless neat freaks. A colorful, musical trip for kids and grown-ups where imagination, play, and laughter rule—and even vacuums might switch sides.
August 22: The Sound of Music (A muzsika hangja) — musical. 1930s Austria: a convent-raised novice becomes governess to a widowed naval captain’s seven children. Maria brings music and sunshine, but history intrudes as the family flees the Nazi annexation. Big melodies, deep feeling, and a historical frame—an ideal family night from the littlest to the grandparents.
August 26: A Beautiful Summer Day (Szép nyári nap) — Neoton musical. Set in the 1970s in Bácsszentmária near the Yugoslav border, the story tracks “voluntary” summer labor with humor and irony. Neoton hits light up every good house party to this day—ageless crowd-pleasers on par, in local hearts, with ABBA. More than three decades after the regime change, we can laugh at our past—fully, freely.
August 28: The Attic (A Padlás) — half–fairy tale, half–musical in two parts, for ages 9–99. In a mysterious attic where ghosts and humans meet, humor, music, and tenderness carry themes of friendship, faith, and the power of dreams—connecting generations in one enchanting family show.
August 29: Not a Ragged Life — Restitched (Nem rongyos élet — újravarrva) | operetta gala. Promise made, promise exceeded: last year’s barnstorming night returns, with stage titans and operetta stars proving again that Hungarian operetta—our cultural hungarikum—belongs to everyone. New faces meet beloved favorites for one last summer waltz on the Mézesvölgyi stage.
