Győr’s Richter Hall rolls out a packed slate of concerts, operettas, plays, and feel-good comedy nights for the 2025–2026 season, all under one striking roof. Home to the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (Győri Filharmonikus Zenekar) and named after world-famous, Győr-born conductor János Richter, the venue also boasts a modern, soundproofed, 1,076-square-foot rehearsal room on the second floor—with sleek lighting, air-conditioning, and a vibe that makes musicians want to linger long after rehearsal ends.
Symphonic Drama: Shadow Play
December 12, 2025, 19:00
The Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (Győri Filharmonikus Zenekar) dives into lush late-Romantic and 20th-century colors with violinist Ernő Kállai and conductor Sergey Neller. Program: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35 (33 minutes), Richard Strauss’s Symphonic Fantasy from Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), TrV 234a (15 minutes), and Maurice Ravel’s La valse (12 minutes). Expect high lyricism, dazzling virtuosity, and a whirl of orchestral decadence.
Act, With a Violin – Győr
December 15, 2025, 19:00
A titan of painting dies, leaving behind a masterpiece from his final period—Nude with Violin (Akt hegedűvel)—and a storm of questions. No will. A letter in the hands of a long-serving valet. Visitors who keep arriving uninvited. Bank vaults filled with sealed correspondence. Does the past grow murkier—or clearer? This drama balances art-world intrigue with family tensions and shifting loyalties. Running time: 120 minutes with one intermission.
Cast: Andrea Szulák (Anna Pavlikova), Szilveszter Szabó P. (Sebastian Lacreolle), Armand Kautzky (Jacob Sorodin), Ferenc Tarlós (Colin), Lilla Pánics (Jane), Enikő Nagy (Isabella Sorodin), Béla Oláh (Clinton Preminger). Directed by Armand Kautzky. Set and costume designer: Tamás Rákay. Composer: Dávid Fecske. Assistant director: Dóra Majláth. Lyrics: Árpád Marton.
Operetta Classic: Miska the Magnate (Mágnás Miska)
December 20, 2025, 15:00 and 19:00
First staged in February 1916 at the King Theatre (Király Színház), this smash-hit operetta by Albert Szirmai and Károly Bakonyi still charms. Miska, a stable boy, is dressed in tails by railway engineer István Baracs and introduced as Count Tasziló at the Korláthy family’s soirée to pay back a slight from the count, who rejected Baracs’s railway plan—hurting the village majority. Romantic chaos ensues when Baracs and the Korláthy daughter fall for each other at the village fair the night before. Incognito, love blossoms; in the castle, the class gap yawns. When the truth about “Tasziló” comes out, high society blushes, and Rolla chooses Baracs. Expect crowd-pleasers like Cymbaled, Wicked World (Cintányéros cudar világ), I’d So Like to Be Happy (Úgy szeretnék boldog lenni), and Hoppsza, Sári (Hoppsza Sári).
Nutcracker Selections
December 21, 2025, 17:18
The Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (Győri Filharmonikus Zenekar) serves Tchaikovsky’s finest holiday magic with selections from The Nutcracker (op. 71). Conductor: Ádám Baross.
Big Holiday Warm-Up: Christmas Concert
December 22, 2025, 19:00 and December 23, 2025, 15:00
Another helping of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker selections, followed by Christmas carols to lift the roof. Performers: Bartók Béla Singing and Music Primary School Children’s Choir (Bartók Béla Ének-zenei Általános Iskola) (choirmaster: Gabriella Molnár), Philharmonia Chor Wien (chorus master: Walter Zeh). Conductors: Ádám Baross and Norbert Pfafflmeyer.
Michael Cooney’s Look Who’s Here?! (Nicsak, ki lakik itt?!)
December 27, 2025, 19:00 and January 2, 2026, 19:00
The Bánfalvy Studio (Bánfalvy Stúdió) revives its 2018 runaway farce, updated for 2025, directed by Csaba Horváth. A Hungarian in London has had enough of “free money.” Róbert Szűcs has been living off unemployment, old-age pension, sick pay, child allowance, disability benefits, and free cow’s milk—not to mention a dodgy nursing-bra hustle that’s testing his wife’s patience. Fearing exposure, he tries to ditch the illicit benefits rather than his freedom or his marriage. Turns out shedding welfare is harder than getting it. Two-part mayhem ensues.
Cast highlights: Iza Varga/Zsófia Kondákor (Linda Szűcs-Swan), Ferenc Hujber (Róbert Szűcs), Imre Harmath/Ádám Gombás (Pawel Duda), Ádám Gombás/Zoli Kiss (Mr. George Jenkins), Ganxsta Zolee (Gyurka), Anna Bugár/Zsófia Kondákor (Sally Chessington), Péter Sándor/Levente Hajdu (Dr. Chapman), István Imre/Dávid Csányi (Mr. Fortbright), Orsolya György (Miss Cowper), Timi Stelczer (Magdalena Szmrczyk). Producers: HCS, Oliver W. Horvath. Translator/dramaturg: Albert Benedek; revised by Benedek, Oliver W. Horvath, HCS.
New Year’s Eve Aradi–Varga Show
December 30, 2025, 19:00
Comedy icons Tibor Aradi and József Ferenc Varga, both Karinthy-ring comedians, team up with their indispensable partner Erika Steinkohl for a retro cabaret-style New Year’s bash. The beloved Aradi–Varga Show brings unfiltered laughter to Richter Hall just in time for year’s end.
Ray Cooney’s Run for Your Wife
January 3, 2026, 19:00
Mary in Wimbledon and Barbara in Richmond both call the police because their husband, taxi driver John Smith, is late. Same man, two marriages, one rapidly collapsing double life. After an accident helping an elderly woman, John gives the wrong address at the hospital, triggering a police probe and a frantic cross-town shuttle between wives. Cast: Dénes Száraz (John), Ramóna Kiss/Anna Bugár (Mary), Léda Mezei (Barbara), Endre Beleznay (Stanley), Imre Harmath (Inspector Porterhouse), Dániel Suhajda (Inspector Troughton), Zoltán Kiss (Bobby Franklyn), Gábor Pintér (Photographer). Translator/dramaturg: Albert Benedek. Director: Csaba Horváth. Producers: HCS, Oliver W. Horvath. Set/costumes: Gabriella Győri. Assistant director: B. Diána Szikra. Choreographer: Gyula Antal Horváth.
Ray Cooney’s Out of Order
January 4, 2026, 19:00
The award-winning farce returns via the Bánfalvy Studio (Bánfalvy Stúdió). Young government minister Richard Willey plans a romantic night with opposition secretary Jane in a grand hotel, but they immediately discover a “corpse” in the window. Enter Richard’s jittery secretary George Pidgen, a hyper-attentive hotel manager, a crafty head waiter, Richard’s wife, a nurse caring for George’s mother, and Jane’s jealous husband. Chaos multiplies until dawn refuses to run out of surprises.
Cast: Tamás Vastag (Richard), Imre Harmath (Manager), Gábor Urmai (Head Waiter), Zsófia Kondákor (Jane), Gábor Pintér/Ádám Gombás (The Corpse), Ferenc Hujber (George), Ganxsta Zolee (Ronnie), Anna Bugár/Réka Léda Mezei (Pamela), Timea Stelczer (Nurse). Director: Csaba Horváth. Producers: HCS, Oliver W. Horvath. Choreography: Gyula Antal Horváth. Set/costumes: Gabriella Győri. English-to-Hungarian translation by Tamás Ungvári; dramaturg: Albert Benedek. The play won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 1992.
Fur Salon Frenzy
January 6, 2026, 19:00
Love triangles, mink coats, scantily clad women, flying garments, total bedlam—inside London’s chicest fur salon. Gilbert, the puffed-up co-owner, plans the conquest of his life while his wife’s away. From moody lovers and plummeting fur prices to a returning wife and a boozy frigate captain, everything derails the affair. Even the honorable partner Arnold can’t track the flings, the ladies in closets, or the husbands in pursuit. The testosterone spikes, London Transport inherits a parade of lingerie, and Gilbert doubles down on harebrained schemes until a riotous finale. Ray Cooney’s Not Now, Darling (Ne most, drágám!) runs 110 minutes.
Black-and-White Paths
January 15, 2026, 19:00
The Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (Győri Filharmonikus Zenekar) spotlights pianist Zoltán Fejérvári in an evening that promises refined contrasts and a crisp, modern edge to start the new year on a high note.
