An English-language website where you can buy tickets for almost every event in town - theatre, ballet, Chinese acrobats, Peking opera and more. They bring the tickets to you, and you pay on delivery. Good for those who don't speak Chinese.

www.piao.com.cn

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Tetro Colon is an exquisite theatre gracing the widest avenue in the world, la Avenida 9 de Julio. The interior is stunning and is one of the oldest European theatres in South America. Splash out on a ticket for an opera, ballet or play or alternatively take a guided tour. The 5 peso standing only tickets are a bargain, if not a little straining on the legs, especially though a three act opera. Enquire at the box office.

The Teatro Colon is situated on the Avenida 9 de Julio, just past the Obelisk.

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If you cannot afford full price for an opera or ballet, queue for one of the 600 standing places – which will set you back two or four euros.

Opernring; www.staatsoper.at/Content.Node2/en/index.php

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Built in the late 19th-century in Renaissance style, the glorious State Opera House is a wonderful example of the mania for historicist architecture in Budapest. A must for opera or ballet fans, and well worth a visit for the stunning frescoes and dazzling gilded interior for everyone else. Tickets are inexpensive by London standards and can be booked online before your visit.

22 Andrássy Street, VI. Budapest; nearest metro: Opera; www.opera.hu/

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It is fun to go see and opera or ballet performance in this glorious old Opera House. Top price tickets are usually about £28 ($50) with lots of lower prices. Website has an easy to use online booking system in English. Productions can be a bit hit and miss but it just rather fun to be in a Grand Opera House - treat yourself to a box and you'll feel very grand indeed!

www.opera.hu/

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A very posh, old-fashioned eating experience up in the old castle area, this is worth saving the forints for. The food is very rich and traditional and the wines are expensive but superb. But it's the operatic and ballet-based entertainment that sets the place apart. There is hardly room to swing a cat but two dancers and a string quartet somehow find space to perform.

There is the largest hammered dulcimer (called a cimbalom) I have ever seen and two short chubby opera singers belt out recognisable favourites with great panache. Go on. Spoil yourself!

Kiraly Etterem (Kings Restaurant)
1014 Budapest, Táncsics Mihály Utca 25.
Tel: +36 1 212 8565
www.kiralyrestaurant.hu

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If you want to see the opera, ballet or a play it is all housed here. Behind it there are other museums, including DB Museum - Verkehrsmuseum Nürnberg (museum for trains and traffic) and Museum für Post und Kommunikation (museum for mail and communication).

Richard-Wagner Platz 2-10;
Tel: 0911 - 231 3575;
www.staatstheater-nuernberg.de

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Since the fall of Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolution many travel guide books were published and there is a plenty of info on the internet as well. But an insider's input, starting with where to look for that good, neat, reasonably prices B&B in Prague's Old Town, an opera and ballet offering's specifis, safety etc. etc. that for one reason or another do or can appear in the publications I fould an invaluable service from the former manager of a popular, Washington, DC-based, Golden Prague Travel and Czech & Slovak Service, Mr. Rovbert Milller, now in CT at 203-244-4256.

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