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The opera company gave its first performance in this theatre on 9 January 1954, Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades. On the next night, the first ballet performance of the company took place at the same theatre, of Coppélia. [1] The building of the Romanian Opera in Bucharest is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments. [2]
It was founded as the Teatrul cel Mare din București ("Grand Theatre of Bucharest") in 1852, its first director being Costache Caragiale.It became a national institution in 1864 by a decree of Prime Minister Mihail Kogălniceanu, and was officially named as the National Theatre in 1875; it is now administered by the Romanian Ministry of Culture.
The old building of the National Theatre in Bucharest, home to many opera performances in the city until its destruction by German bombardment in 1944. The history of opera in Romania dates back to the 18th century when French, Italian, and German touring companies began performing the standard European repertoire of the day in the main cities of Romania.
In 2006 debuted in Rome, presenting a Bartok/Enescu/Beethoven program with the Orchestra di Roma e del Lazio. After 1989, Conta repeatedly returned to Romania, including a dual role as a pianist and conductor leading the George Enescu Philharmonic in an all-Beethoven program (3d Symphony and the Fantasy in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra).
Romanian National Opera may refer to a number of national opera and ballet companies in Romania: Romanian National Opera, Bucharest; Romanian National Opera, Cluj-Napoca;
While the local university moved to Sibiu, the Romanian Opera moved to Timișoara and became Cluj-Napoca Romanian State Opera at Timișoara (Romanian: Opera Româna de Stat din Cluj la Timișoara). In December 1945, at the end of World War II, as Cluj became again part of Romania, the Opera returns to Cluj and restarted its activity.
In May 2022 he made his debut at SemperOper Dresden with Opera Madama Butterfly conducted by Gaetano Espinosa. [50] Pop also sang Rigoletto at Opera Nationala Iasi, Tosca at Opera Nationala Romana Cluj Napoca, he made his debut as Riccardo in Un ballo in Maschera at Opera Nationala Romana Iasi [51] and La Boheme at Opera Nationala Bucuresti. [52]
Œdipe (Oedipe) is an opera in four acts by the Romanian composer George Enescu, set to a French libretto by Edmond Fleg. It is based on the mythological tale of Oedipus, as told by Sophocles in Oedipus the King. Enescu had the idea to compose an Oedipus-inspired opera even before finding a libretto and began to sketch music for it in 1910.