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Cultural adventures

High-quality artistic life

There is an extremely lively and high-quality art life in the Hungarian State Ballet Institute in 1979. It was very

Győr-Moson-Sopron County. The theatrical life is based special both in the life of Hungarian dance and in the cul-

on old traditions in both towns of county rank, in Győr tural history of the city of Győr. The ensemble raises the ar-
and in Sopron. tistic standard with its constantly renewed repertoire year

Th e first stone theatre was built in Győr in 1798, on today’s by year, opening an ever-widening horizon to its audience.
Radó Island. The current new theatre, with its characteris- The Philharmonic Orchestra of Győr, a city orchestra

tic shape, was opened in 1978. Two sides of the building founded in 1894, is now a professional orchestra. Highly
are decorated with Victor Vasarely’s ceramic work of art. successful performances have been staged in almost every
From 1992, the institution has been called the Győr Na- country in Europe, and also on the most important mu-
tional Th eatre. The building of the theatre of Sopron was sic stages in Asia. In addition to its performances in Győr,

constructed in the early 1800s and underwent complete re- the orchestra awaits its audience on the stage of the Hang-
novation several times. Th e Petőfi Theatre of Sopron was villa in Veszprém, in the Vértes Agora in Tatabánya, in the

formed in 1991. Both institutions await their audiences ProKultura in Sopron, in the Flesch Center in Mosonma-
with great performances and colourful programmes. gyaróvár, and in the Benedek Csaplár City Cultural Cent-
The Ballet of Győr was founded by the graduating class of re in Dunajská Streda.

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