Violinist Sarah Nemtanu and Polish conductor Jacek Rogala are set to open the 2024 Royal Season with an extraordinary concert at the Romanian Athenaeum, on November 3.According to a press release sent on Monday, the opening of the 12th Royal Season, which became a traditional event in Bucharest, takes place under the auspices of the Romania-Poland Cultural Season 2024-2025, a bilateral programme aimed at strengthening cultural relations between the two countries and promoting artistic exchanges.The concert will offer a unique opportunity to explore Polish music through the overture to the opera "Jadwiga, Queen of Poland" by Karol Kurpinski - for the first time programmed in Romania by the Royal Chamber, but also to rediscover masterpieces such as the "Violin Concerto" by Jean Sibelius, performed by French violinist of Romanian origin Sarah Nemtanu, and the well-known "Symphony VI in F major op.68 'Pastoral'" by Ludwig van Beethoven.Over the years, the Royal Season presented exceptional concerts of the Royal Camerata with renowned conductors such as Horia Andreescu, Cristian Mandeal, Tito Ceccherini, Constantin Grigore, Sabin Pautza, Jin Wang, Kah Chun Wong, Tiberiu Soare or Leo Hussain, and also with great soloists such as violinists Shlomo Mintz, Alexandra Conunova, Remus Azoitei, Gabriel, Florin and Simina Crotioru, Alexandru Tomescu, Cristina Anghelescu, pianist Alexandra Dariescu, sopranos Nelly Miricioiu, Cellia Costea, Valentina Nafornita, Irina Iordachescu, mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose, tenors Teodor Ilincai, Florin Guzga.The "Royal Season" is a series of concerts performed at the Romanian Athenaeum, under the High Patronage of His Royal Highness, Prince Radu.The concert is organized with the support of the Romanian Ministry of Culture and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Poland, under the auspices of the Romania-Poland Cultural Season 2024-2025.
The 16th edition of Les Films de Cannes, the festival showcasing productions awarded or selected at the Cannes film festival, returns this fall to Bucharest and four other cities in the country. The winner of this year's Palme d'Or, Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident, will be screened at the event, as will be […]
Răsvan Angheluţă Natural Sciences Museum in Galaţi is scheduled to reopen on September 20, after the completion of modernization works worth over 15.1 million lei (approximately EUR 3 million) carried out by the County Council through the recovery and resilience facility PNRR. The building hosts an Aquarium, an Astronomical Observatory, a Planetarium, and temporary exhibitions. […]
A team of Romanian paramedics won first place at the World Rescue Challenge 2025, a competition that sees first responders and trauma teams from around the world develop new skills and share knowledge. This year, the competition took place in Karlovac, Croatia, and was attended by two Romanian paramedics from Bucharest who have been working […]
Artmark, one of Romania’s leading auction houses, registered record sales of over EUR 15 million despite economic instability, showing the growth potential of the national art market, according to the company’s 2024-2025 market report. Overall, auction sales totaled EUR 11 million, up 8.2% compared to the previous year, while sales through the “Dependent de Artă” […]
Cybersecurity has become a major global priority, impacting individual users, companies, organizations, and public institutions. Social engineering, deepfakes, digital manipulation, and coordinated geopolitical attacks are fundamentally reshaping how we view the digital future. In this context, DefCamp, the largest cybersecurity and hacking conference in Central and Eastern Europe, reaffirms its role as a strategic hub […]
Romanian airline AnimaWings has received its fifth Airbus aircraft, an A220-300, as part of an ambitious expansion plan to build a fleet of 18 planes by the end of 2027, valued at over USD 1 billion. The A220-300 is the airline’s third of this type and will serve both domestic and international routes. Configured with […]
