A full year of big-stage thrills is brewing at the Richter János Concert and Conference Hall in Győr, at 9021 Győr, Aradi Vértanúk útja 16. Expect symphonies, operettas, theater, and laugh-out-loud nights—quality entertainment with a generous side of variety.
Mahler 4
Friday, March 6, 7:00 PM
The Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (Győri Filharmonikus Zenekar) dives into a heavyweight pairing: Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16 (30 minutes), followed by Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G major (54 minutes). Gábor Farkas takes the piano spotlight; soprano Veronika Rita Sipos brings the celestial finale of Mahler’s Fourth to life. Conductor: Zsolt Hamar.
Sieghart 75
Thursday, March 12, 7:00 PM
A salute to maestro Martin Sieghart at 75 with the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (Győri Filharmonikus Zenekar). Program: W. A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 (30 minutes), and Anton Bruckner’s monumental Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107 (64 minutes). Piano: Eloïse Bella Kohn. Conductor: Martin Sieghart.
Comedy in a Small-Town Salon
Saturday, March 14, 7:00 PM
A two-act comedy set in a small-town hair salon, where six women—fragile but unbreakable—trade appointments for confessions. They’re not heroes, but they can laugh through pain and make you laugh too. That’s their real power.
JazzKEDD /3 – Temesi Berci és barátai
Tuesday, March 24, 7:00 PM
Bass virtuoso Berci Temesi brings friends and groove to a fresh JazzKEDD night.
Tikk-takk Bumm! (tick, tick… BOOM!)
Wednesday, March 25, 7:00 PM
Jonathan Larson’s self-inspired musical, first staged Off-Broadway and later adapted into an award-winning 2021 Netflix film, lands with guitar-in-hand intimacy. As Jon approaches 30, the would-be composer interrogates career, calling, and timing—will the breakthrough come? Alongside Jon are Michael, the best friend who traded acting dreams for PR, and Susan, the dancer girlfriend still waiting for her shot. With Márk Ember channeling Jon in an acoustic, clubby, stand-up-tinged performance, three actors morph through multiple roles to map the anxieties of today’s thirtysomethings. No war, no hunger, no penny-pinching past—yet a deep fear of stepping into “real life.” Adult responsibility, irreversible choices, commitment jitters, and the fog of the future converge. The trio fights their way through it, sometimes failing, sometimes flying, always honest.
Baroque Mosaic
Saturday, March 28, 5:18 PM
The Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (Győri Filharmonikus Zenekar) crafts a time-travel sampler: Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs (4 minutes); Dieterich Buxtehude’s Passacaglia in C minor, BuxWV 161 (8 minutes, arr. Zoltán Bánfalvi); Francesco Durante’s Miserere in C minor (6 minutes); Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Symphony in D major, H. 663 Wq. 183/1 (11 minutes); and G. F. Handel’s Water Music – selections (10 minutes). Conductor: Tibor Bogányi.
Meztelen igazság (Bare Truth) – A Musical Comedy
Sunday, March 29, 7:00 PM
Six women from wildly different backgrounds sign up for the same confidence-boosting pole dance course—and soon reveal they’re there for much more than sultry moves. Friendships spark, secrets surface, and bodies are embraced as they are. A bold idea pushes them to shed their inhibitions—and their clothes—for charity. Witty, liberating, and all about self-acceptance and female solidarity, it proves that sometimes the bravest act is stripping down—emotionally and literally.
Cast: Paula Barbinek, Csilla Csomor, Anita Deutsch, Ágnes Gubik, Csekka Gyebnár, Petra Haumann. Written by Dave Simpson; Hungarian version/Dramaturg: Paula Barbinek; Set/Costume: Éva Gordos; Rehearsal pianist: Adrienn Fehér; Choreographer: Andrea Tallós; Sound: György Csomor; Lights: András “Szőke” Váradi; Music: International hits in new wraps; Lyrics: Csaba Csik/Dávid Péter Cseh; Pole training: Bernadett Tóth/Pole Heaven Pole Dance Studio (Pole Heaven Rúdtánc Stúdió); Assistant Director: Kriszta Kiss; Director: Rita Tallós; Producer: Krisztina Timár. Cast subject to change.
Anyatigrisek (Mum’s the Word) – Musical
Wednesday, April 8, 7:00 PM
Amy, due any minute, hosts a baby shower–turned–reality check when Barbara, the emotionally overclocked homemaker, Brooke, the workaholic attorney, and Tina, the approval-chasing divorcée, arrive to dispense “wisdom.” Amy’s rosy notions of motherhood won’t survive the night. This 90-minute riot of a musical strips away taboos with humor, speaking to black-belt moms and first-timers alike. A global smash for a decade across four continents, now roaring in Hungarian thanks to Liliom Produkció.
Cast: Katinka Cseke, Linda Fekete, Adrienn Fehér, Tímea Kecskés. Director: Rita Tallós.
Michael Cooney: Nicsak, ki lakik itt?!
Sunday, April 12, 3:00 PM; Thursday, June 11, 7:00 PM
A two-part madhouse from Bánfalvy Stúdió, revamped in 2025. Translator/Dramaturg: Albert Benedek; Revised by Albert Benedek, Oliver W. Horvath, HCS. Director: Csaba Horváth; Producers: HCS, Oliver W. Horvath.
A Hungarian in London has had it with free money. Róbert Szűcs is swimming in benefits—unemployment, pension, sick pay, family allowance, disability income, and yes, free cow’s milk—plus a sideline in nursing bras that makes his wife jealous. Afraid of getting caught, he’d rather ditch the illicit payments than his marriage or freedom. But shedding benefits isn’t easy. Cast includes: Iza Varga/Zsófia Kondákor, Ferenc Hujber, Imre Harmath/Ádám Gombás, Ádám Gombás/Zoli Kiss, Ganxsta Zolee, Anna Bugár/Zsófia Kondákor, Péter Sándor/Levente Hajdu, István Imre/Dávid Csányi, Orsolya György, Timi Stelczer.
Katica Illényi with the Győr Philharmonic
Monday, April 13, 7:00 PM
A sparkling concert starring Katica Illényi—singing, violin, dance, and the show’s secret spice: the theremin. With the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (Győri Filharmonikus Zenekar). Conductor: István Silló.
Szép nyári nap (Beautiful Summer Day)
Tuesday, April 22, 7:00 PM
Set in the 1970s at a youth construction camp near the Yugoslav border in Bácsszentmária, this musical threads humor and irony through politics and first love. Camp commander Antal Tóth runs the Soviet–Hungarian Friendship collective’s tomato-processing side hustle; his deputy, Russian teacher “Aunt” Panni (Panni néni), mothers the place. Her daughter Juli falls for fresh graduate Péter Varga, bound for sociology, whose father defected after ’56. Their crosswired upbringings raise eyebrows. Around them, Budapest teens do what teens do—work, party, clash, make up, fall in love—and belt out evergreen Neoton hits.
Randevú Párizsban, avagy Kellemes Húsvéti Ünnepeket!
Thursday, April 23, 7:00 PM
A two-part comedy set today in a posh Paris district. From the 1984 smash French film by Jean Poiret and Georges Lautner, starring Sophie Marceau and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Industrialist Stéphane Margelle lives with his beautiful wife Sophie—and a Casanova’s appetite. After dropping Sophie at the airport, he meets an 18-year-old and does the full tour: dinner, nightclub, apartment. Then chaos: Sophie’s flight is canceled and she walks in. Cornered, Stéphane blurts the ultimate cover: the girl is his daughter. Cast: Géza Egyházi (Stéphane), Bernadett Fogarassy (Sophie), Éva Czető Fritz (Julie), Sándor Várfi (Walter), Roland Czető (Frédéric), Ottília Borbáth (Marlene). Director: András Márton; Set: János Katona Koós; Translator: József Vinkó; Assistant Director: Erika Dobos.
Bartók & Brahms
Monday, April 27, 7:00 PM
The Győr Philharmonic Orchestra (Győri Filharmonikus Zenekar) pairs Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 (36 minutes) with Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 in E minor, op. 98 (39 minutes). Violin: Barnabás Kelemen. Conductor: Andreas Ottensamer.
Szavak nélkül (Without Words)
May 7
Details to be announced.
