Tenor Jose Carreras on Saturday was awarded the Cluj-Napoca-based Gheorghe Dima Music Academy's Doctor Honoris Causa title, in acknowledgement of his artistic activity. "We have the privilege and honour to award the Doctor Honoris Causa title to master Jose Carreras, as a sign of acknowledgement for his international artistic activity. Tenor Jose Carreras is a great person, a great people lover, an altruist, who can be taken as a model. All the young people in the world will follow him, because he has managed in the art he makes," Gheorghe Dima Music Academy rector Vasile Jucan said during the ceremony. In his turn, Jose Carreras said he is honoured by the title awarded to him. "It is a great honour to receive this title from the Music Academy of Cluj, one of the most active music institutions of Romania. My connection with Romania has been established a long time ago and I am glad that my music is appreciated by the Romanian public, who respects my work. Music is my vocation since I was a child, it is my life," Jose Carreras said. Attending the ceremony, among others, were Cluj Prefect Gheorghe Vuscan, Mayor Emil Boc, Babes Bolyai University rector, Academician Ioan Aurel Pop. Tenor Jose Carreras held his first concert in Cluj-Napoca at the Polyvalent Hall, on Sunday, at 19,00hrs.
The National Bank of Romania (BNR) ended 2024 with a profit of roughly RON 3.8 billion (EUR 760 million), a 58% increase compared to the previous year, despite the operations it performed to maintain the national currency's stability. The figures, published in a report on Monday, June 23, show that operating costs for 2024 were […]
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Bucharest is facing growing environmental challenges, with traffic-related air pollution, shrinking green spaces, and worsening climate impacts threatening the health and well-being of its residents, according to the latest “State of the Environment in Bucharest” report released by the Bucharest Community Foundation through the Environmental Platform for Bucharest. For example, air pollution has already reached […]
