George Enescu International Festival is offering free, online access to concerts that were part of the festival or of the associated competition. The classical music concerts can be viewed on the festival’s website and will be available for four days each.
The concerts can be viewed for free as an invitation to the public to donate to doctors, nurses, hospitals and NGOs instead of purchasing tickets.
The first concert was Verdi’s Requiem, performed by the Orchestra and Choir Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conducted by Fabio Luisi. It was chosen to honor the people of Italy, and the country’s people and artists, as it is currently the European nation hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
Other performances that will be available online this month are from the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster; Orchestre National de France, conducted by Ion Marin; St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Badea; and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal De Liège conducted by Gergely Madaras, and having violinist Renaud Capuçon as soloist, among others. British composer Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes, performed by the Romanian National Radio Orchestra & Radio Academic Choir conducted by Paul Daniel, will also be available. The full program is available here.
The Romanian National Opera in Cluj Napoca is streaming online several of its past performances. The selected performances are Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth and La Traviata. The performances are available on the opera’s website and will be available for 20 hours after posting. The program is available here.
The National Opera in Iași has started streaming its performances online with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. The performances can be watched free of charge on the opera’s website.
Paul Constantinescu Philharmonic in Ploiești has decided to stream some of its past symphonic, jazz and folkloric concerts online. The concerts are streamed on the institution’s Facebook page and updates about the program are posted here.
Meanwhile, the artists of the Brașov Opera have held a short performance online. The artists performed together, each from their home, a fragment from Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco.
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