Winter Fair at the Village Museum
Christmas fair and live performances, various surprises await the public as of this weekend, in the Village Museum Florile Dalbe winter custom festival. On the lanes of the Village Museum, groups of children come to sing, wishing you a happy Christmas and for the New Year. Starting Saturday, December 12, the traditional fair will also bring together folk artists performing outside the display houses. Among the artistic programme’s highlights, visitors will be able to listen to old-time carols “Colinde, melinde” with Pilisterlu group, Nataly group. On Sunday December 13, there will be a parade of the winter celebration featuring The Goat Play with Cununita group from Ilva Mare, Bistrita Nasaud, Masks Play with Drumul baltagului group from Borca, Neamt, „The Deer” from Sticlaria, Scobinti, Iasi, as well as Vasilca, with Dunarica group, Nasturelu, Teleorman.
Panait Istrati exhibition at the National Museum of Literature
A comprehensive documentary photo exhibition that celebrates 125 years since the birth of Romanian writer Panait Istrati, opened Friday at the Round Hall of the National Museum of Romanian Literature (MNLR). Under the title ‘Panait Istrati – Nikos Kazantzakis: A friendship’s odyssey’ the exhibition puts on display photographs and documents from the archive of the Panait Istrati Memorial House in Braila, some of them in premiere, such as Istrati’s restored birth certificate and manuscripts by the author. Under a different form, the exhibition was also opened in October this year, in Greece, in the writer’s father hometown. The events dedicated to Panait Istrati, who was born in August 125 years ago, began Thursday in his natal town of Braila, with the exhibition ‘Panait Istrati – photos from Soviet Russia (1927-1929).’ Panait Istrati (1884-1935) was born in Braila, as the illegitimate son of a washerwoman – Joita Istrate – and a Greek smuggler. His first literary attempts date back from 1907, when the writer committed himself to the Romanian socialist press. Between 1910-1912, he publishes his first stories: ‘The savior,’ ‘The white horse,’ ‘Our family,’ ‘1st of May.’ He collaborates with the newspapers ‘Viata Sociala,’ ‘Dimineata,’ ‘Adevarul’ and moves closer to socialist circles. In 1927 he tours Moscow and Kiev, in Russia, where he meets Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis. In 1929 he once again travels to Soviet Russia and gets the inspiration for his work entitled ‘Vers l’autre flamme – Confession pour vaincus’ (translated in English as ‘The Confession of a Loser’), which denounces the abuses of the communist regime.
at Bucharest Operetta
The company “A theatre like all the others” brings at “Ion Dacian” National Operetta Theatre (TNO) from Bucharest a coupe show, whose first take” by Gian Carlo Menotti, with Mediana Vlad and Constantin Cocris, and “The Bear” by William Walton, (after the play with the same name by A.P. Cehov), with Alina Bottez, Jean-Kristof Bouton (Canada) and Claudiu Sola, set up for the first time in Romania. The production is signed by Marcel Stanciucu. The two titles are one-act operas, masterpieces of the repertoire of the 20th century, representative for the American and British spaces. The small extent of the scores and the small number of characters (two in “The Phone” and three in “The Bear”) place them in the category of the chamber opera.
Winter Fair at the Village Museum