BR brings you the best of Bucharest Opera’s cultural highlights for the month ahead.
Aida, Giuseppe Verdi (in Italian with Romanian translation)
April 11-12, from 19.00
On the stage of National Opera Bucharest, Iurie Florea, the conductor, will lead one of the most famous operas, Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. Daniel Magdal will play the role of Radames, a military commander, who struggles to choose between his love for Aida, an Ethiopian princess captured and brought into slavery in Egypt, and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. The four-act opera is based on a libretto written by Antonio Ghislanzoni.
Anna Karenina, Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski
Neoclassical ballet in two parts on a musical collage made by Ioan Tugearu and Alexandru Istrate from the works of composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is staged with a libretto by Liana Tugearu after the novel by Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is played by the ballet dancer Corina Dumitrescu, and Alexei Karenin is interpreted by Bogdan Plopeanu.
Othello, Giuseppe Verdi (in Italian with Romanian translation)
Based on Shakespeare’s play “Othello”, the opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi is presented in a performance directed by Vera Nemirova and conducted by Adrian Morar, with Otello played by Daniel Magdaland Desdemona played by Iulia Isaev.
Le corsaire, Adolphe Charles Adam
Le Corsaire is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a libretto originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges loosely based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron. Under the wand of Ciprian Teodorașcu, Cristina Dijmaru (Medora) and Robert Enache (Konrad) are interpreting the performance.
Petipa’s La Bayadère (meaning The Temple Dancer or The Temple Maiden) tells the story of the bayadère Nikiya (Oana Babușka) and the warrior Solor (Ovidiu Matei Iancu), who have sworn eternal fidelity to one another. The High Brahmin (Tiberiu Almosnino), however, is also in love with Nikiya and learns of her relationship with Solor. Moreover, the Rajah Dugmanta of Golconda (Mihai Babușka) has selected Solor to be the fiancé of his daughter Gamzatti (Marina Minoiu), and Nikiya, unaware of the arrangement, agrees to dance at the couple’s betrothal celebrations. On the Bucharest National Opera, everything happens under the wand of Iurie Florea.
Photos courtesy of Bucharest National Opera
Oana Vasiliu