Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy thriller, The 39 Steps, brilliantly and hilariously recreated as the smash hit Olivier Award Winning Best New Comedy. This blissfully funny show follows the incredible adventures of our handsome hero Richard Hannay, complete with stiff-upper-lip, British gung-ho and pencil moustache as he encounters dastardly murders, double-crossing secret agents, and, of course, devastatingly beautiful women.

This wonderfully inventive and gripping comedy thriller features four fearless actors, playing 139 roles in 100 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action.

With a score including such enduring musical numbers as "Let the Sunshine In," "Aquarius," "Hair" and "Good Morning Starshine," Hair depicts the the birth of a cultural movement in the 60's and 70's that changed America forever: the musical follows a group of hopeful, free-spirited young people who advocate a lifestyle of pacifism and free-love in a society riddled with intolerance and brutality during the Vietnam War. As they explore sexual identity, challenge racism, experiment with drugs and burn draft cards, the "tribe" in Hair creates an irresistible message of 'hope' that continues to resonate with audiences 40 years later.

May be inappropriate for 13 and under due to nudity and subject matter. Children under the age of 4 are not permitted in the theatre.

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, based on the play Turandot by Carlo Gozzi. It was left unfinished by Puccini at his death, and completed by Franco Alfano. The first performance, at the Teatro alla Scala, in Milan, on 25 April 1926, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, included only Puccini's music and not Alfano's additions. Later performances were of the completed score.

Turandot is a Persian word and name meaning "the daughter of Turan", Turan being the region of Central Asia which used to be a part of Persian Empire.

It is an oriental fairytale of disguised identities, riddles, ritual executions and of course powerful, triumphant love. Besides its great tenor aria Nessun dorma, the music ranges from the exotic and portentous as the moon rises at the start, through the grandeur and mysticism of Turandots riddles, to the tragic beauty of the servant girl Lis appeals to and final sacrifice for her beloved master, Prince Calaf.

Performance Info

26th June 2009 @ 9.15pm

10th, 17th & 29th July 2009 @ 9.15pm

4th August 2009 @ 9pm

Customers must exchange their voucher on the day of the performance between 6pm an 8pm in "Ristorante IPPOPOTAMO", Piazza Bra Nr. 26 (first floor) in Verona.

Die Csardas Furstin (1915 Johann Strauss)

The Csardasfrstin ", 1915 in the First World War, is as peppy as involved love story between the Prince Edwin and celebrated chansonette Sylva varescu.

Because it is a operetta, despite everything patentanwlte differences a happy end to expect, and until it is the audience to immortal tunes like "without women, the chose not" and "make WIRs the petrels.

Budapest and Vienna shortly before the out break of the First World War. At a Budapest music hall the young Count Edwin falls in love with the famous cafe singer Syiva Varoscu but a relationship is unthinkable for reasons of social position until it is discovered that Edwin's own marriage and Edwins father must drop his objection to their Union. Arguably Kaimans most successful work. Sung in German with English surtitles.

Performance Info

22nd & 23rd November 2008 @ 7pm

2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th December @ 7pm

Customers must exchange their voucher at the box office at least 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Sylvester Lvay's and Michael Kunze's genuine, hysterical, brilliant musical has arrived to Budapest after tours in Vienna and Hamburg - and expectations have been more than fulfilled! A hit! A huge hit!

The Mozart boom at the end of the 20th century, which discovered the composer's remarkable, eccentric, unpredictable and rebellious personality, has produced several great works of art. The best of these are the film and the stage versions of Amadeus, and Levay's Mozart!

The story is based on a completely novel approach to the hero, presenting him almost as a young man of today. He cannot tolerate his father's dominance, the archbishop's terror, the city's intrigues, and the bourgeois plots, and while struggling with the external world, there is no peace inside him either as his genius is torturing him, nearly putting him in the stocks.

It is an interesting, animated, very modern and very human story about a young man who cannot and will not adapt to the world's boring schemes, and who is called Mozart!

Performance Info

19th & 21st November 2008 @ 7pm

20th November @ 6pm

16th & 17th December 2008 @ 7pm

Running Time: 3 hours 5 minutes with 1 interval

Customers must exchange their voucher at the box office at least 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Premiere of the world's very first klezmer musical in the Operetta Theatre! To the best of our knowledge this is the first klezmer musical ever produced.

It is set in a Romanian-Hungarian-Jewish village in Transylvania. Andrs Brny, son of a well-to-do farmer, is holding his bachelor's party before marrying the poor but beautiful Rzsi Patks. However, it turns out that the orphaned Rzsi does not possess the documents required for the marriage ceremony.

At the suggestion of old Mrs.Majzik, local notary Comsa turns to the Kolozsvr Orphans home for more information. Here it transpires that Rzsi is not in fact the Patks' daughter by birth but was adopted by them. Her real father is the late mill owner Salamon Blum, her mother Regina Weisz who was seduced by Blum and died soon after giving birth. In short, Rzsi, who until now was believed to be Christian, is in fact Jewish!

Shunned by her former friends, the despondent Rzsi is taken in by the philosophically-minded Jewish innkeeper Uncle Herskovics. There she finds a new home and starts studying her new faith.

Performance Info

17th November 2008 @ 5pm

18th January 2009 @ 7pm

Running Time: 2 hours 50 minutes with 1 interval.

Customers must exchange their voucher at the box office at least 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Bajor - Oszvald - Verebes! What more could you ask for?! These three are the rock solid guarantee of marvellous theatrical entertainment for all.

Being one of the most successful Hungarian operettas, Mike the Magnate is time and again played both in music and drama theatres. Its popularity is partly due to the satirical and amusing story, and partly to the superb evergreen songs written by Albert Szirmai and Andor Gbor. Who knows a woman's heart", I wish to be happy" and What a nasty world" have certainly become operetta hits.

The operetta was originally written for Mrton Rtkai and Sri Fedk, a legendary Hungarian duo of stage artists. Therefore, theatres should only come out with a new production if the roles of Miska and Marcsa are played by absolute celebrities. It is perhaps the only operetta that has a comical character in the leading role. Miska, a quick-witted stable-boy with a heavy non-U accent, turns into a sophisticated aristocrat in a matter of minutes. His hefty partner, Marcsa becomes a Frenchy" dame, who is introduced to the upper-class world as Countess Mary.

All this happens because the standoffish family would not allow Baracs, a farm bailiff to marry their daughter Countess Rolla. Thank goodness that a kleptomaniac grandmother, not caring about such prejudices, takes side with the young couple, and the story unfolds into a merry finale.

Performance Info

10th & 11th January 2009 @ 7pm

Running Time: 3 hours with 1 interval.

Customers must exchange their voucher at the box office at least 30 minutes prior to the performance.

The first world musical at the Budapest Operetta Theatre. Szakcsi, MP Szimi and KERO's A Midsummer Night's Dream is about the encounter of the spirit world, humans, horizontal and vertical worlds - an encounter we are all keen on, based on Shakespeare's classic naturally.

The idea for the musical adaptation of one of the world's best known plays was born at the Budapest Operetta Theatre. The director Gbor Mikls Kernyi wrote the book with the lyrics writer Pter Mller Szimi to be joined by one of the most outstanding artists of Hungarian jazz, Bla Szakcsi Lakatos. The Kossuth and Liszt Award winning pianist is at home in jazz, classical music and world music - which was the basis for him to create this genre-setting piece with his co-authors.

The Szeged Open Air Festival is co-producer of the world premiere, which creates a new genre, world musical. The original work is a piece of world theatre, so it was only logical for Bla Szakcsi Lakatos to include music of all nations from all around the world. A Midsummer Night's Dream mixes jazz and classical music, as well as music from Spain, Turkey, Romania, India and gypsy music - with very contemporary texts indeed.

In the center of the piece are the well-known characters.The play is set in the forest of dreams and love and on the opening with humans and invisible spirits destined to meet here. This is where they are all preparing for the big wedding of Theseus, the wealthy supplier, the Great Barrow, who picked this place for his daughter and the Police Chief's only son, Demetrius to get married on midsummer night. This is where the invisible fairies and their great king Oberon and his quarrelling wife Titania come with their servant Puck and his pals...

There in the shadow of the crying-music playing moon is here and so are the butterflies raising their wings, the flaming fires, the fiery flowers, the flying sticks and wedding pans and ass heads, the threads are mixed, the real lovers elope and Puck drops magical potion to the eyes of fairies and humans, and only he can entangle the chaos again Beyond the lovers' mixup and the fights for power in KERO's production the cataclysms of our planet's going under also flares up. Nevertheless, by the end of the show Titania and Oberon, king and queen of the spirits face an interesting choice of how to go on with their lives.

Performance Info

13th, 14th & 15th November 2008 @ 7pm

9th, 10th & 11th December 2008 @ 7pm

2nd, 3rd & 4th January 2009 @ 7pm

Running Time: 3 hours with 1 interval

Customers must exchange their voucher at the box office at least 30 minutes prior to the performance.

One of the biggest successes of last seasons remains on the programme! If you want to see this fantastically spectacular performance, it would be worth thinking about booking well in advance!

Refined French taste has always set the trend in gastronomy, fashion and design, as well as in culture and the arts. In recent years this influence has reached musical theatre too. The musical has been enriched with new colours and tastes in the studios of Paris. The cult of beauty, playfulness and sentimentality has imbued and brought new life to the stagnat-ing Anglo-Saxon genre; in place of a special treat for a narrow, theatre-going stratum it has been transformed into a commu-nity event.

The musicals Notre Dame de Paris and more recently Romeo and Juliet have been seen by great numbers in long production runs in the Palais des Sports seating thousands or the Palais des Congrs. Everyone is familiar with the story of the musical based on Shakespeare's play.

In the words of Gerard Presgurvic, the composer and librettist: "Romeo is the most romantic and most tragic play in world literature. It would be hard to find a better subject for a good musical. It has everything: hate, love,misunderstanding, death, wedding, freedom. Besides all this I have attempted to use Romeo and Juliet to discover many new and timely feelings in myself."

Performance Info

27th, 28th, 29th & 30th December 2008 @ 7pm

20th, 21st, 22nd 23rd & 24th January 2009 @ 7pm

Running Time: 2 hours 45 minutes with 1 interval.

Customers must exchange their voucher at the box office at least 30 minutes prior to the performance.

What does one need for an operetta apart from great melodies, an exciting story and loads of love? If there is a piece of Franz Lehr's on the programme, all of the above are granted. Especially with The Merry Widow, many of whose world-famous songs frame this painfully beautiful love story.

Hanna Glavari, a wealthy widowmeets her old flame, Danilo Danilovich after many years. They both have changed and she is now suspicious and tough, while he has become cynical and a partygoer. Failures of the past and insults in the present stop these two people meant for each to find their way to each other. Theirs is a story which takes long to be born and re-born and in whose background a small Southern-European country's politicians are struggling for their own and their homeland's survival in the times of economical crisis.

The Merry Widow's music and story are filled with passion suppressed, then exploding. This might be the reason why it has such an elementary effect on players and spectators alike.

The operetta was first presented in Vienna in 1905 and in Budapest in 1906- both times with great success. Then it started to conquer the world and it continues to be played everywhere on operetta and opera stages alike. They say there is no evening without The Merry Widow somewhere on programme...

After a few years interval The Merry Widow is presented again in Budapest in a new production with a new cast and ever soyoung. Give her a hearty welcome.

Performance Info

25th January 2009 @ 7pm

26th January 2009 @ 5pm

Running Time: 2 hours 55 minutes with 1 interval.

Customers must exchange their voucher at the box office at least 30 minutes prior to the performance.