What to do this weekend

BR brings you the best of Bucharest’s cultural highlights for the weekend ahead.

PERFORMANCE

Rigoletto Premiere (in picture)

Bucharest National Opera

February 21, 22, 23, from 19.00

After 60 years of the same setup, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Rigoletto will be staged at the Bucharest National Opera (ONB) in a new production of this opera, signed by the famous Australian director Stephen Barlow and by Greek artist and stage designer Yannis Thavoris. The play conducted by Cristian Sandu will present on stage a cast including artists from the U.S., Italy, Russia, ONB soloists and guests from other Romanian cities. The new stage of Rigoletto presents the Duke as Al Capone, while Rigoletto is a private entertainer of the Duke, who is involved in the business of funeral rites. More about this event, here.

like CNDB #1

National Dance Centre Bucharest

9 – 28 February

The National Dance Centre in Bucharest organizes the “like CNDB #1″ festival which presents the best contemporary dance pieces of the last few years. Performances start every night from 9 until 28 February at 7:30 pm. Prices start at RON 15 for a single performance ticket or RON 70 for a festival subscription.

DISCOVER BUCHAREST

Art in Bucharest tour

February 21, from 13.00

Reservations: art@artinbucharest.com / 0726 008 152.

Tour available in Romanian and English, RON 80

Meeting point: Aviatorilor metro exit, direction Romanian Television

During three hours we’ll explore three artists’ studios in Pangratti area where we can find one of the highest number of artists’ studios in Bucharest. First artist we announce is Silvia Radu, sculptor, potter, and painter, and her Garden of Angels. More details, here.

FILM PREMIERE

From February 21

3 Days to Kill

Director: McG

Starring: Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld

A dying Secret Service Agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment.

Like Father, Like Son

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Yoko Maki

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth, he must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

Pompeii 3D

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Starring: Kit Harington, Emily Browning

A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.

Prince Avalanche

Director: David Gordon Green

Starring: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch

Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.

EXHIBITION

Contemporary Norwegian Architecture

The National Museum of Contemporary Art

Until March 22

The “Contemporary Norwegian Architecture # 7” Exhibition travels around the world starting with 2011, being so far hosted by Brazil, Cuba, Poland, Croatia, the Czech republic, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Greece, Cyprus, Germany and Bulgaria. In 2014, with the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Romania, in partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Art and Zeppelin Association, it comes to Bucharest. More about this exhibition, 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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