Veresegyház is rolling out the picnic blankets and powering up the spotlights: from June to August, Mézesvölgyi Nyár 2026 takes over Búcsú Square (Búcsú tér) with Pest County’s biggest open-air, cross-arts festival. The lineup blends blockbuster theatre, landmark concerts, and family shows across genres, aiming squarely at summer nights that stretch late with shared singalongs, laughter, and a lot of local star power.
Where and when
The Mézesvölgyi Open-Air Stage sits at 2112 Veresegyház, Búcsú Square (Búcsú tér). The program unfolds from late June through the end of August, with options to sort out accommodation and food and drink nearby. Organizers reserve the right to change dates and programs, so keep your plans nimble.
June highlights
June 21 sets the tone with Charlie Horváth (Horváth Charlie), the unmistakable giant of Hungarian pop. Expect a smoky mix of blues, punchy jazz, and unfiltered Hungarian rock glowing under the Veresegyház evening sky. The anthems land thick and fast, from Iced with Ice (Jég dupla jéggel) to Look Up to the Sky (Nézz az ég felé), the kind of songs generations shout back to the artist.
On June 24, István Mohácsi’s French Pole Vault (Francia rúdugrás) lands for 18+ audiences: three women, three men—a sextet where the partnerships rearrange in a stormy night of chemistry and chaos. A know-it-all sex psychologist barges in, missteps pile up, and you cling to the hope it all comes good by dawn.
July: comedies, rock opera, classics
July 3 brings Neil Simon’s Rumors (Pletykafészek), a two-act farce where viewers can sit back and track gossip ricocheting through the upper crust into deeper and deeper scrapes.
July 4 unleashes Stephen, the King (István, a király), the most successful Hungarian rock opera, now in a monumental anniversary concert. The cast features star singer-actors from the original phenomenon, joined by the Crescendo Music Orchestra’s top-tier musicians. Think state-of-the-art lighting, visuals and animation, massive moving set pieces, and showy pyrotechnics.
On July 7 and again July 8, László Dés – Péter Geszti – Krisztián Grecsó’s The Paul Street Boys (A Pál utcai fiúk) reimagines the classic as a clash among young adults, sharpening the conflicts with today’s musical textures and lyrics. The show leans on acoustic objects, the actors’ rhythmic inventiveness, youthful energy, and humor, amplifying the source material’s cathartic punch.
July 12 switches gears with The Jungle Book (A dzsungel könyve): Mowgli hunts for happiness beneath lush canopies in a heart-squeezing, heart-warming tale about friendship and love for kids and the forever young at heart.
On July 15, Jeanie Linders’ Menopause The Musical embraces the change with loud, honest, riotous humor. July 19 lines up a high-voltage Péter Geszti concert, layering Rapülők dance stunners, Jazz+Az funk, Gringó Sztár and Létvágy pop delicacies, with big staging, humor, and brutally frank lyrics.
Then a TV favorite takes the stage: You Rang, M’Lord? (Csengetett, Mylord?) makes its world premiere in Veresegyház on July 21 and 22, reviving beloved characters for a breezy, nostalgic summer night.
July 26 serves Steven Moffat’s The Unfriend (Rém Rendes Vendég), a two-act comedy: polite Brits Peter and Debbie befriend an American widow, Elsa, on a cruise, exchange addresses, and—against all odds—she actually visits. After Googling her, terror sets in. Add a nosy neighbor and a sergeant, and chaos blossoms. Fresh from a West End hit, Budapest’s Játékszín brings the frightfully lovely guest to town.
July 28 detonates Not Now, Darling! (Ne most, Drágám!), a farce of love triangles, mink coats, scantily clad women, and garments flying out of windows—pure mayhem in London’s poshest fur salon, engineered solely for laughter.
On July 31, American Comedy (Amerikai komédia) swings in: a musical based on Károly Aszlányi’s 1930s play, with a libretto and lyrics by Attila Lőrinczy and music by multi-award-winner Bálint Bársony. Directed by Károly Peller, it’s packed to the brim with humor, drive, and vintage swing, landing as an all-ages crowd-pleaser.
August: legends, mysteries, and musical crowd-pleasers
August 1 pays homage to a pop star who never fades: It Was Only a Dance (Csak egy tánc volt) – Pál Szécsi’s greatest hits arrive under the stars, performed by Zoltán Miller, Dénes Pál, Attila Serbán, and Sándor Nagy.
On August 5, Agatha Christie fans get The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Hercule Poirot retires to the drowsy English manor world of King’s Abbot, only for two inexplicable deaths to jolt him back into action. Artúr Kálid stars as Poirot, with P. Szilveszter Szabó as Dr. James Sheppard.
August 7 laughs and swoons with Lovers of Ancona (Anconai szerelmesek), a musical comedy that’s reigned on Hungarian stages for two decades, fusing Italian commedia traditions with homegrown humor and the most iconic Italian hits of the 1970s.
August 8 spotlights Quimby, one of the lineup’s headliner gigs, promising the band’s singular sound and iconic tracks for a signature open-air experience.
On August 11, the saga continues with Lovers of Ancona at Lake Balaton (Anconai szerelmesek a Balatonon). It’s 1989, and the whole Italian company—now older, softer around the middle, grayer at the temples, sometimes trailing teens—heads to Hungary in search of roots, rekindled love, and peace, aided by Békés, the comrade boss of a Balaton SZOT resort. Cue the bel canto: Azzurro, Bella Ciao, Sono l’italiano…
August 15 shifts to a candid biographical stand-up night: One Life (Egy életem) with Imre Csuja. He talks, as only he can—modest, funny, warm—about a childhood directed by his mother, early years on stage, days with four performances, lessons from old masters, meeting his wife four decades back, and tales from Glass Tiger (Üvegtigris) and A Kind of America (Valami Amerika), peppered with workshop secrets.
August 18 brings Over the Smudge-Hill? (Túl a Maszat-hegyen?), a musical comedy set in a world where mess is order and cleaning equals chaos. Andris Muhi sets off to rescue friends from the land of splats, dusters, and terrifying neat freaks. It’s colorful, magical, and irresistibly melodic for kids and adults—where even vacuums might pick the wrong side.
On August 22, The Sound of Music arrives: 1930s Austria, a free-spirited would-be nun becomes governess to the seven children of a stern naval captain. Maria brings song and sunshine until history intrudes and the family flees the Nazi occupation. The warmth, melody, and historical stakes make it a perfect family outing.
August 26 leans into retro joy with A Beautiful Summer Day (Szép nyári nap), the Neoton musical set in a 1970s youth work camp near the Yugoslav border. Irony, humor, and Neoton Família hits—still staples of any decent house party—turn nostalgia into a party. More than 30 years after the regime change, we can laugh at our past without a wince.
August 28 offers The Attic (A Padlás), half-fairytale, half-musical, for ages 9 to 99. In a mysterious attic, spirits and humans collide, swapping stories about friendship, faith, and chasing dreams, in a show that binds generations.
The finale on August 29 is Not a Ragged Life – Restitched (Nem rongyos élet – újravarrva), an operetta gala that ups the ante after last year’s hit. New faces join beloved favorites as theatre heavyweights and operetta stars prove that Hungarian operetta—proudly a national treasure—belongs to everyone.
