The George Enescu International Festival marks 150 years since Ravel’s birth and 70 years since Enescu’s passing.

The last tickets for the Festival’s concerts are still available online via Eventim.ro, in physical format at Cărturești bookstores, and at the concert hall entrance.

At 4:30 PM, the Romanian Athenaeum will host a special concert dedicated to Maurice Ravel. The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Charles Dutoit, together with the renowned pianist Martha Argerich, will perform some of the most beloved works of the French composer. The program includes the orchestral suite Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose), the Piano Concerto in G major – with its jazz echoes – and the elegant Valses nobles et sentimentales.

The evening will conclude with Claude Debussy’s La Mer, an orchestral transfiguration inspired by the Japanese woodblock print The Great Wave. Together, these works invite the audience on a captivating journey into French impressionism.

At 7:00 PM, the stage of the Bucharest National Opera House will be taken over by George Enescu’s monumental masterpiece “Oedipe”, a work that consumed the composer completely and which he considered the fulfillment of his artistic destiny. Under the baton of conductor Tiberiu Soare, the Orchestra and Choir of the Bucharest National Opera, joined by the Children’s Choir of the National Opera (coordinated by Smaranda Morgovan), will present a production signed by renowned director and stage designer Stefano Poda, with Paolo Giani as associate director.

The performance brings together an impressive cast, assembled especially for the Enescu Festival:

• baritone Ionuț Pascu as Oedip
• mezzo-sopranos Ruxandra Donose as Jocasta and Ramona Zaharia as the Sphinx
• bass-baritone Adrian Sâmpetrean as Creon
• tenor Paul Curievici as Laius
• bass Vazgen Gazaryan as the High Priest
• bass Alexei Botnarciuc as Tiresias
• soprano Kaarin Cecilia Phelps (winner of the Grand Prix Enesco at the Georges Enesco International Singing Competition in Paris) as Antigone.
  
  Written by News.ro | 15 septembrie 2025, 12:11