Culture Minister Vlad Alexandrescu went to the Bucharest National Opera (ONB) on Thursday, where ONB employees had been protesting since Wednesday against the decision to rehire former ad-interim director George Calin and ballet dance Johan Kobborg. After listening for about two hours to the grievances of the protesters, the minister said he would give a lot of serious thought to everything he was informed on.
He pointed out that the information presented to him allows him to truly deal with the ongoing issues at ONB. "I hope, for the sake of the National Opera of Bucharest and for the sake of its future, that Mr Vlad Alexandrescu makes the wisest decision," former ONB acting director Tiberiu Soare said at the end of the talks. The protesters said they would wait for the culture minister's decision on the ONB management. The protesters gathered on Wednesday in the ONB's big hall, where they expected Minister Alexandrescu to come for talks. As he didn't show up, the employees cancelled the scheduled show.
Tiberiu Soare invited the spectators to the Opera's big hall and warned them that, instead of a show, they would attend a protest. At the request of the attending spectators, ONB artists in the building's big hall joined the ad-hoc protest in singing the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves by Giuseppe Verdi.
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