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The Ministry of Culture and National Identity stated for News.ro that it has refunded almost the entire amount received through the State Treasury under the donation campaign for the state acquisition of the sculpture “Wisdom of the Earth”, and Valer Daniel Breaz is analyzing the report of the mission of…

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The Embassy of Denmark in Romania marks the Christmas season with an appeal to support the charity MagiCAMP. MagiCAMP helps children with cancer to restore confidence, to gain the power to fight the illness and to motivate them to move on. Since 2017, the MagiCAMP project MagicHOME has hosted children…

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The Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Romania, in partnership with KMG International, brings three art movies of the Kazakh film industry to the Romanian film lovers, at the 4th edition of the Kazakh Film Festival. The event is one of the largest events of its kind in the…

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On Friday, December 7 (at 7.00 PM), the first concert held by the National Radio Orchestra after the extraordinary performance under the International Festival of Radio Orchestras – RadiRo, is an event of the same high artistic level! On the stage of the Radio Hall, the ensemble will perform under…

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World star André Rieu is undoubtedly one of the most popular international musicians of the moment. Known as “King of Waltz” from Mexico to Australia, André Rieu holds concerts in front of more than 600,000 every year, exceeding the number of spectators attending the concerts of the international superstars like Bruno Mars, AC/DC or Rihanna. André Rieu comes for the first time at BT ARENA from Cluj-Napoca, on April 5, 2019, starting at 8.00 PM, in a new memorable concert under the 2019 world tour. “Music and waltz are a very important part of my life”, André Rieu says. “If a song touches my soul, it will touch yours too, for sure. This music allows me to bring excitement and joy in people’s hearts, everywhere in the world. Everything is allowed at my concerts: to laugh, to cry, to dance, to sing. Emotions are the secret of my success.” Tickets are available starting from Thursday, November 29, and they can be purchased both online at www.eventim.ro or www.andrerieu.com, and in the EVENTIM partner stores all over the country: , Vodafone, Germanos, Carturesti and Humanitas Bookstores, Carrefour shopping centers and OMV gas stations, at the Iulius Mall ticket office, at prices starting from 200 RON, depending on the seat category. André Rieu’s concerts are like a firework of emotions. With more than 100 concerts every year, André Rieu delivers total entertainment to the audience, with famous romantic songs, filled with many surprises, humor and first-class international soloists. Together with the 60 musicians, members of his Johann Strauss Orchestra, the largest private orchestra in the world, the charismatic Dutch artist performs tours all over the world for more than 30 years. In September, the world tour took the great artist on the great stages of United States and Canada, in October he was in Argentina, in November he performed in Australia, while in December he will conquer the British audience. To manage the transport routes of the huge production between continents, 4 fabulous identical structures have been created, containing 4 sets of costumes, instruments and technical equipment. Over 40 million CDs and DVDs sold, number 1 in the international rankings for 30 times, and 500 platinum discs, are making André Rieu a real “Maestro of the Masses”,  New York Times headlines ecstatically. The videos published on his YouTube account have so far reached one billion views, and more than 3.7 million fans are watching the King of Waltz on Facebook.   This July, André Rieu held his annual fantastic concerts outdoor, in his hometown in the Netherlands, Maastricht. For the first time, for 13 evenings, more than 15,000 fans from over 80 countries attended his extraordinary concerts at Vrijthof. André Rieu has been married for more than 40 years and he and his wife are living in a romantic castle built in 1452 in his hometown, Maastricht, in the Netherlands. They have two sons and five nephews.  

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On Friday, November 30 (at 7.00 PM), the Radio Hall will be the host of an extraordinary concert dedicated to Romania’s Centenary. Under the baton of the appreciated conductor HORIA ANDREESCU, the National Radio Orchestra will perform a 100% Romanian program, especially selected for the centennial event. The evening will start with the score of Suite roumaine signed by George Enescu; you will further listen to the “Sapte cantece” (e.n. – “Seven Songs”), also signed by the great composer, lyrics by Clement Marot (orchestra: Th. Grigoriu) – with the participation of soprano IRINA IORDACHESCU. Accustomed to the two famous rhapsodies signed by Enescu, the audience will have the opportunity to listen to a beautiful score at the Radio Hall, which is rarely performed on the concert stages: the Romanian Rhapsody signed by Ciprian Porumbescu, which reflects with in a highly touching way the specificity of the Romanian spirit. The program of the extraordinary concert also includes fragments of the soundtrack of the movie “Mihai Viteazul” (1971, directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu), a suite signed by Tiberiu Olah, and “Trei dansuri romanesti” (e.n. – “Three Romanian Dances”), a creation of composer Theodor Rogalski. The event will include the participation of the Radio Academic Choir (conductor: CIPRIAN TUTU). During the break of the event, the Casa Radio Publishing House will mark the celebration of the Centenary of the Great Union by launching two music albums: – Romania Centenar – a CD that includes recordings of the Radio Romania Record Library, a representative selection for this editorial concept, under the brand of Radio Romania Muzical; – Cantecele Unirii – an album with Romanian patriotic songs, such as “Ce-ti doresc eu tie, dulce Romanie!”, “Pe-al nostru steag e scris Unire” sau „Treceti, batalioane romane, Carpatii!” – recently recorded by the Radio Academic Choir (conductor: CIPRIAN TUTU). The event will be attended by the Manager of Radio Romania Muzical, Cristina Comandasu. The Centennial Concert ends, at the Radio Hall, one month of extraordinary events, opened on November 1 by the concert celebrating 90 years of existence of Radio Romania, and continued by the events held under the RadiRo Festival (the 4th edition), the only festival in the world dedicated to the radio orchestras. HORIA ANDREESCU is the leading conductor of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, and for more than 18 years, he was the artistic director and the leading conductor of the Radio Romania Orchestras and Choirs. In ‘80s and ‘90s, he was a permanent guest of some important German ensembles: the Berlin Radio Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, and the State Chapel of Schwerin. Over the time, he conducted outstanding ensembles, such as the State Chapel of Berlin, the Comic Opera of Berlin, the London Symphonic Orchestra, the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the BBC Scotland Symphonic Orchestra, the symphonic orchestras of Vienna, Jerusalem, Reykjavik, Alabama and Taipei, the radio orchestras of Vienna, Leipzig, Hamburg, Köln, Copenhagen, Madrid and others. One of his special initiatives is printing the full catalogue of Enescu’s symphonic works, a world premier that took place at Olympia in ‘90s and re-edited by Electrecord in 2015. IRINA IORDACHESCU, the daughter of the great baritone Dan Iordachescu, is a soloist of the Bucharest National Opera since 2005, but she has been remarked since 2001 as a guest of Teatro alla Scala – Milano, where she held two vocal-symphonic concerts under the baton of Riccardo Muti. Also, she collaborated with other foreign musical institutions, such as the Mulhouse Symphonic Orchestra (France), L’Estro Armonico of Luxemburg, the Ciudad de Murcia Classical Orchestra (Spain), the Thessaloniki State Philharmonic Orchestra (Greece), the Veneta Philharmonic Orchestra (Italy) and the BRabants Orchestra from the Netherlands. She held concerts along with Gheorghe Zamfir at Carnegie Hall in New York, in Chicago, in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. IN 2012, Irina Iordachescu was invited to sing Musetta from „La Bohème” by Giacomo Puccini, at the Glyndebourne Festival (UK).  

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The National Museum of Romanian History (MNIR) informs that it will host the ‘Semper United. The Centenary of the Accomplishment of National Unity’ exhibition dedicated to the celebration of one century since the Great Union of 1918. The exhibition will be inaugurated on Thursday, November 29, at 4 p.m., in a solemn event at the headquarters of the Museum, on Victoriei Boulevard 12, District 3, Bucharest, in the presence of Romanian high-level officials and representatives of the Diplomatic Corps. The exhibition is made in partnership with several museums and cultural institutes from the country and from the Republic of Moldova, but also in partnership with private collectors, and will present the moments and personalities that made the Union possible, via documents but also objects that are representative for this crucial historical moment. The first part of the exhibition focuses on the most important stages of the “journey” that started with the Union of 1600, followed by the Union of the Principalities, the War of Independence, the First World War which culminated with the Great Union. The relations between Romanians who were living in the Kingdom and those who were living on territories that were part of neighbouring empires is given a special place. An important part of the exhibition is dedicated to the war for national unity and to the events of 1918. Each moment – the union with Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transylvania – has a nucleus in the exhibition, presenting the stages and personalities that contributed to the completion of national unity. Presented are the personal objects of leaders such as Pantelimon Halippa, Stefan Cicio Pop, and of institutions or organisations such as national guards, of delegates who took part in the National Assembly in Alba Iulia, the flag of the people of Lupsa, the Resolution of the Great National Assembly, the mandates of the Romanian delegates to the Great Assembly, etc. The iconographical and documentary material is very rich. On this occasion, the ‘Golden Book of the Centenary of the Great Union’ documentary film will be previewed as part of the event. The documentary film is based on the book with the same title, edited by historian Bogdan Bucur, Reader at the Political Science Faculty of the SNSPA, a best-seller on the Centenary of the Great Union, published by the RAO Publishing House. The film, directed by Titus Scurt and produced by the Bucharest Multicultural Centre, is an exceptional achievement that presents the story of the Great Union, with the participation of some of the most important contemporary Romanian historians: Ioan-Aurel Pop, president of the Romanian Academy; Razvan Theodorescu, vice president of the Romanian Academy; Prof. Ph.D. Bogdan Murgescu, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest; Reader Ph.D. Adrian Niculescu, Political Science Faculty, SNSPA Bucharest. The exhibition will open for the public on November 30, and can be visited from Wednesday to Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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112 years have passed since, based on the Royal Decree no.2777 of July 13, 1906, signed by King Carol I and Mihail Vladescu, the inspirational Minister of Cults of that time, Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcas is appointed as the Director of the Museum of Ethnography, National Art, Decorative Art and Industrial Art, known to the Bucharest people as The Road Museum. Since then, the Museum has gone to many challenges, with the roller of the history of the 20th century. Transformed, relocated, with its collection scattered, simply dismantled and reestablished in 1990 under the name creatively suggested by the team consisting of Horia Bernea and Irina Nicolau, namely The Romanian Peasant Museum. Today, the Romanian Peasant National Museum is still in a redevelopment process; the neo-Romanian building was subject to consolidation and restoration works, and at present, the objects from the permanent exhibition are gathered and housed in warehouses. The temporary exhibition halls are still open: Tancred Banateanu Hall, the Foyer Hall and the Aquarium Hall, as well as the Peasant Art Gallery – a good place to admire and buy old and new peasant objects. In addition, movie lovers are awaited with many art movies and documentaries at the Peasant Museum Cinema. The Peasant Museum redefines traditions by a dynamic and contemporary manner, inviting both the specialists and the general public to participate actively and creatively through the actions and events it organizes. “On the occasion of the Centenary, the Romanian Peasant National Museum thanks you for visiting it every year and continues to wait for you with temporary exhibitions, fairs, conferences, book launches, creative workshops, concerts and movie screenings”, reads a press release issued by the institution.      

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The International Festival of Contemporary Animation Theater ImPuls brings to the Tandarica Theater of Bucharest animation and visual arts performances from 13 countries, between November 19 and 28. The International Festival of Contemporary Animation Theater ImPuls, which has reached its 14th edition, is addressed to all ages and aims at bringing to the Romanian public’s attention various styles of contemporary animation and visual theater in the world. There are over 70 events scheduled under the festival, which includes animation shows, interactive workshops, book launches and the Tandarica Urban Camp at the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucharest, on November 21. ImPuls presents to the Bucharest public performances from China, Chile, Russia, Spain, UK, Italy, Latvia, Japan, South Africa, USA, Denmark, Sweden and Romania, which are extremely different in style, combining contemporary and innovative visual and animation theater techniques. Along with the international spectrum, the national participation is also significant, the best productions of the current season of this kind of theaters in Romania being selected”, according to the organizers. Under this edition, there will be held the international conference “The importance of animation: key values in and beyond contemporary theater for children”, an even co-organized for the first time by three professional associations of the theater world: the International Association of the Theater Critics (AICT), THE International Association of Theater for Children and Youth (ASSITEJ), and the International Puppetry Association (UNIMA). On November 23 and 24, specialists from Romania and from abroad will have a critical debate on topical themes of the animation theater, in a series of presentations and debates moderated by Octavian Saiu, who is a professor, researcher and theater critic. The Manager of Tandarica Theater, Calin Mocanu, described the event as follows: “A festival certainly is an opportunity for communication, a platform for collaboration and dialogue. In fact, that’s what me and my colleagues agreed at our previous meetings. Communication between us, the theaters and institutions in the field of animation and visual arts, partnerships that bring together artistic and cultural energies, and concrete exchange of experience: theater directors and scenographers working together, two or more theaters collaborating for a single project. Contemporary art needs communication and international exposure, dialogue, exchange of experience, the possibility to be selected in festivals”. ImPuls is a professional contest festival dedicated to the audience of all ages, were the contemporary trends of the visual and animation theater from Romania and abroad are strengthened and promoted. The festival is attended by outstanding world-class personalities who speak about the latest animation techniques and researches, presenting their own projects as an example. The festival has a platform that generates cultural exchanges, communication between artists and specialized institutions, partnerships, and the opportunity of national, international and intercontinental co-productions.

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The National History Museum of Romania will launch this week the “Virtual Museum of the Union”, a digital project dedicated to the Centennial of the Greater Union, featuring images, documents and other original testimonies from public and private collections, related to the event occurred 100 years ago. “The project contains photos and documents of the testimonies kept in the partner institutions, as well as in private collections, such as the archive of Eugenia Cadariu Bormioli, the great granddaughter of Transylvanian leader Stefan Cicio-Pop, thus building a valuable database available online. The tokens of the Union are varied, many of these are little known by the general public: newspapers, photos, letters, books, journals, cameras, flags, furniture and clothing, personal items of the participants in this great historical event such as watches, rings, stamps, painting, decorations, licenses, medals, maps that give contour to the histories of the union to Romania of Bessarabia (27 March, 1918), Bukovina (15/28 November 1918), Transylvania, Banat, Crisana and Maramures, on 1 December, 1918, in Alba Iulia,” according to a press release of the National History Museum of Romania and issued on Monday to AGERPRES. The website further presents, through texts and pictures, the histories of the Union’s cities – Chisinau, Cernauti and Alba Iulia – presenting the leaders of the Union from all the historical regions of the country, but also their tragic destiny after 1945 when they were exterminated, having “the guilt” of making the Greater Romania. “The Virtual Museum of the Union has united, through stories and images, the cultural institutions in Romania in the Year of the Centennial and will be available at www.mvu.ro starting with its launch date, 21 November, respectively,” reads the press release. The project was funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Identity through the Centennial Program and was developed in partnership with the National Archives of Romania, the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives, the National History Museum of Moldova (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova), the Cotroceni National Museum, as well as several museums of history, ethnography and art in the country.

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