The Secret Library - After

Thoughts From the Afterglow of Opening Night

It all began on a quiet September afternoon. I remember telling my friend Tamás how incredible it would be to organise a concert inside a library — something intimate, magical, unexpected. He looked at me and said, almost casually: “Well… why not? ELTE has a beautiful University Library and Archives.”

I searched it up.And in seconds, I fell in love.

I could see it immediately — the candles, the strings, the atmosphere, the reverence of old books all around us. I knew, instinctively, that this was going to be a hit. A project that didn’t need convincing. A place that already carried the story within itself.

That same night I stayed up until the early hours of the morning, designing the full visual identity and the entire brand — despite the fact that we had not even spoken to the library yet, and had no idea whether such an event would be allowed at all.

“Why not?” — The doors open

The next morning, we wrote to them. A few days later came their answer:

“Alright. Why not?”

I will never forget the first time Fred— my co-founder — and I stepped into the grand reading room. We looked at each other and burst out laughing. We knew.Immediately. Perfect. No questions needed.

And because winter was coming, the choice felt obvious: our first concert would be Harry Potter-inspired, titled The Boy Who Lived.

We imagined the concert. We wrote the arrangements. We gathered the musicians, rehearsed, refined, redesigned, planned, and built —everything a dream like this demands.

And then… the tickets disappeared.

The tickets for the first performance sold out in about 14 minutes. The next five announced concerts sold out in as little as half a day.

But truthfully, we knew. There are moments in a creator’s life — in an event organiser’s life — when you feel instantly that something extraordinary is unfolding. When you know you’ve just imagined a once-in-a-decade experience, and every piece is already falling into place.

This was one of those moments.

A new chapter for SkyFall

The Secret Library became the perfect continuation of our Candle Lake journey —another world, another feeling, another universe brought to life under the new SkyFall Productions brand. And I’m proud. Proud that in barely six months, SkyFall has already created two brands people truly love, two worlds audiences step into with excitement, curiosity, and wonder.

A closing reflection

There is a special kind of magic in creating something that has never existed before —walking into an empty room and seeing, not its silence, but its potential. Imagining what could be. And then watching it all turn real:the lights, the music, the audience, the breathless moments, the shared emotions.

The Secret Library is more than a concert series. It is a reminder that some doors only open when you dare to knock. And when they do, they reveal worlds you didn’t even know you were capable of building.