What to do this weekend

At a loose end? BR brings you the best of Bucharest’s cultural highlights for the weekend ahead.

GEORGE ENESCU FESTIVAL

Friday, September 6

Business Review recommends: Otello by Giuseppe Verdi

ORCHESTRA and CHOIR of the BUCHAREST NATIONAL OPERA

Bucharest National Opera, 19.00

“OTELLO” by Giuseppe Verdi

Conductor : KERI-LYNN WILSON
Director : VERA NEMIROVA
Sets : VIORICA PETROVICI
Conductor of the choir : STELIAN OLARIU
Assistant director : IRINA MACOVEI

More details about this event, here.

Saturday, September 7

Business Review recommends: La Venexiana Ensemble

“LA VENEXIANA” Ensemble

Romanian Atheneum, 22.30

Conductor : CLAUDIO CAVINA

“PRELUDIU” Chamber Choir of The National Art Centre “Tinerimea Română”

Conductor of the choir : VOICU ENĂCHESCU

Sunday, September 8

Business Review recommends: Romanian Youth Orchestra

Palace Grand Hall, 19.30
Conductor : LAWRENCE FOSTER

Programme :
D. Dediu – Frenesia for orchestra op. 84 (2000)
J. Brahms – The Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra in a minor op. 102
Soloists : PINCHAS ZUKERMAN – violin
AMANDA FORSYTH – cello
M. Ravel – Rapsodie espagnole
M. Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte
M. Ravel – Alborada del Gracioso
M. Ravel – Bolero

OUTDOOR

Caragiale’s Bucharest Festival

Until September 15

Old City, Children’s World Park, Conu’ Iancu’s restaurant

Until September 15, the State Jewish Theater, Tandarica Theater, Comedy Theater, Metropolis Theater, Masca Theater, Nottara Theater, National University of Theater and Film and Hyperion University presents the second edition of Caragiale’s Bucharest Festival. The event will include comedy, classical, modern theater and music hall performances, but also various-genre music, which can be seen in Old City, Children’s World Park and Conu’ Iancu’s restaurant at Hala Traian.

In terms of music, the festival’s organizers prepared fanfare music, Romanian traditional folk music sung by the famous Maria Tanase, operreta and opera music.

The admission is free of charge. The entire program of the festival can be seen here, in Romanian language only.

DISCOVER BUCHAREST

Architectural tour in Domenii quarter, Bucharest

September 7, 10.30 – 13.00

Reservations: v.mandache@gmail.com / 0040 (0)728.323.272

Tour available in Romanian and English, RON 35

The tour offers a guide through a quite special section of Bucharest, in the past housing a part of city’s elite, composed mainly from medium and high ranking government workers from the inter-war Ministry of Agriculture and State Domains, hence the name “Domains” (Domenii in Romanian) for this quarter. The area has been developed between the early 1920s and the late 1940s. The beauty of the architecture found in this corner of Bucharest, a large part of it built during the years of the political turmoil of the 1930s, wartime and the dawn of the Stalinist regime, is a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit in the course of those adverse upheavals.

Architectural tour in Piata Victoriei

September 8, 10.30-14.30

Reservations: v.mandache@gmail.com / 0040 (0)728.323.272

Tour available in Romanian and English, RON 35

The tour offers a guide through a remarkably rich and architecturally varied area of central Bucharest, where famous public buildings often stand side by side with quaint Little Paris, Neo-Romanian or Art Deco style private houses. The character of the local built landscape has been in large part determined by the architecture embellishing two important boulevards that cross the area: Calea Victoriei, the oldest thoroughfare of Romania’s capital, and Lascar Catargiu, an artery opened in the late c19th as a showpiece of the then modern urban planning and architecture, roads that meet in the great square Piata Victoriei that hosts Romania’s government’s headquarters.

EXHIBITION

Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/ Intellectuals

America 24/7

The National Library

The American Bucharest Corner was inaugurated on June 20 at the National Library and two exhibitions take place: “Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/ Intellectuals.” which shows Native American contributions as scholars, professors, museum curators, and writers as well as makers of traditional fine arts, video and photography to document their cultural heritage and their struggle for sovereignty and a second poster exhibit, “America 24/7”, accompanied by a book, the result of a project by American author and publisher, David Elliot Cohen, and American photographer, Rick Smolan. More than 25,000 digital photographers across the U.S. – including 36 Pulitzer Prize winners – responded to the invitation to take pictures of their towns, families, neighbors and friends for 24 hours a day for seven days. The best photos capturing the diverse authentic America were included in the exhibit. More details, here.

Q.E.D. by Mircea Cantor

The National Museum of Contemporary Art

Until April 2014

More than 1,200 people have attended the opening of the first local solo exhibition of one of the most important young artists to emerge on the international scene over the last decade: Mircea Cantor, winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp Award 2011. The QED exhibition, the largest survey of the artist’s works to date, comprises 30 pieces. More details here.

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