Don’t miss international performances in Bucharest in November

Music

SoNoRo

November 1-19

Ticket prices: RON 50-370 (full pass)

Bucharest, Cluj and Iasi will host the eighth SoNoRo chamber music festival. The opening concert will be held at CotroceniPalace and will be followed by another eight shows in Bucharest.

Pianists Diana Ketler and Konstantin Lifschitz, violinists Alexander Sitkovetsky, Erik Schumann, Andrej Bielow, violist Christian Naș, trumpeter Olivier Darbellay, and cellists Adrian Brendel and Monika Leskovar will entertain the public with their works, joined by some debutants, such as violinists Ilya Gringolts and Alissa Margulis, violist Maxim Rysanov, cellists Sonia Wieder Atherton and Marcin Sieniawski, the Paris Niguna Assembly and the Oslo Engegard Quartet.

The Bucharest concerts will be held in several locations: CotroceniPalace, BragadiruPalace, the Palace of the National Military Circle, the Romanian Athenaeum, ArCuB, the National Museum of Art of Romania, St. Iosif’s Cathedral and the National Bank of Romania.

Billy Ocean

November 27, Sala Palatului, 19.00

Ticket prices: RON 180-340

Billy Ocean, Britain’s best-selling black recording artist of all time, who has sold over 30 million records, is coming to Bucharest to promote his latest album, Here You Are.

The ten-track album features songs that have influenced Ocean over his musical career, including tracks such as No Woman, No Cry by legendary singer Bob Marley, You Send Me by Otis Reading and It Was A Very Good Year by Frank Sinatra.

Ocean’s reggae-infused, soulful voice is as strong and distinctive as it was when he rose to worldwide fame back in the 1970s. The singer’s break came when he signed to GTO records, for which his second single was the Motown-inspired Love Really Hurts Without You, which reached No. 2 in the UK charts and No. 12 in the US. Two top twenty singles followed; Love on Delivery, and Stop Me, then Red Light Spells Danger became a smash in both the UK and the US.

Performances

Life is Beautiful Festival

November 7-17

Bucharest National Opera

Ticket prices: RON 7-107

This year’s event will include operetta, music-hall and ballet performances, concerts, exhibitions and shows for kids.

The festival will kick off with a concert by Spanish singer Buika. The artists and ensembles featured on the program include Carmen, performed by the Tbilisi Musical Theatre, the ballet Baiadera, chorographical theatre performance Mozart Steps, a concert by Sonia Theodoridou, The Japanese Tale, performed by the Radu Stanca Theatre, Count of Luxembourg, by the State Theatre of Musical Comedy, Russia, an Alexandra Coman concert, Bloody Wedding, by the Klaipeda State Music Theatre, Lithuania, and an Alfredo Pascu concert.

Remember the Time? A show to remember Michael Jackson with Mike Terrana

November 13, Sala Palatului, 19.00

Ticket prices: RON 60- 280

In commemoration of iconic artist Michael Jackson, this ambitious performance will feature an innovative choreography concept, video projections and lights, all spiced up by the Symphonic Evolution Tempo Orchestra, under the baton of Andrew Tudor.

The highlight will be the exciting drum rhythms of Mike Terrana, known to Romanian audiences for his collaborations with soprano Tarja Turunen, Axel Rudi Pell, Yngwie Malmsteen and many others.

Moreover, Dadans, led by choreographer Judith State, will depict through dance the King of Pop’s story life story, set to immortal songs such as Billie Jean, Thriller, Dirty Diana and We Are the World.

Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili (in picture)

November 20, Sala Palatului, 20.00

Ticket prices: RON 50-250

After more than 10,000 performances on 90 stages worldwide, including the Albert Hall in London, La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera and Madison Square Gardens in New York, Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili arrives in Romania on its latest European tour.

For two hours, more than 70 dancers will take the stage and dance to traditional Georgian music, performed live by the National Orchestra of Georgia. The more than 1,000 extraordinary costumes created especially for the dancers will complete a compelling picture of stories about combat, courage and heroism.

Known worldwide as “Georgian’s flyers” because of the extremely high acrobatics and jumps during the performance, the dancers will entertain their Romanian audience with a thrilling show full of grace and complex choreography. The dance flow is emphasized by costumes and headdresses as well as numerous braids down to the waist.

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