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The 13th edition of the PROPATRIA International Festival will take place between October 1 - 30 in six countries - Italy, the Republic of Moldova, Germany, France, Israel and Romania, the organizers announced in a release.
The event will open on October 1 in Rome's Piazza di Spagna with a folklore show by the Professional Folklore Ensemble "Tara Vrancei", organized in partnership with the Romanian Embassy in Italy and the Rome City Hall, with the support of the Department for Romanians Everywhere, agerpres reports.
The festival's Moldovan section will see the music and poetry show "Applause for the Poet" taking place in the Organ Hall in Chisinau with actors Rodica Mandache and Eduard Pauna, and pianist Catalin Raducanu.
The cultural long-range program will continue in Berlin, at the premises of the Romanian Embassy in Germany, with the concert given by pianist Cristian Niculescu and cellist Radu Nagy.
Paris is next with the concert performed by violinist Irina Muresanu (based in the U.S.) and pianist Dana Ciocarlie (France) in collaboration with the George Enescu International Singing Competition in Paris.
The festival will continue in Israel with the recital of Bucharest-born pianist Michael Abramovich (who currently lives in Germany) at the Tel Aviv Conservatory, in collaboration with the Association of Romanian Language Israeli Writers.
The PROPATRIA International Festival will close in Romania on October 30 with the PROPATRIA 13 Extraordinary Opera Gala staged at the Bucharest National Opera, with soprano Letitia Vitelaru (Italy) and baritone Sorin Coliban (Austria) as soloists, accompanied by the Bucharest Metropolitan Orchestra, with Maestro Daniel Jinga at the conductor's desk.
"The PROPATRIA Festival will reward Romanian excellence in all the host countries, bringing to the attention of the public and Romanians everywhere the young up-and-coming Romanian values, offering concerts and remarkable performances to the public from Italy, Germany, Israel, France, the Republic of Moldova and Romania," the organizers said.
The project is carried out by the PROPATRIA Romanian-Italian cultural association in Rome, under the artistic direction of Mara Dobrescu, in partnership and under the patronage of the Romanian Embassy in Italy, the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Romania, the Embassy of the Italian Republic in Romania, the Romanian Embassy in France, the Romanian Embassy in Germany, the Romanian Embassy in Israel, the Romanian Embassy in the Republic of Moldova, in partnership with Accademia di Romania in Rome, ICR Bucharest, ICR Paris, ICR Tel-Aviv, ICR Chisinau, the Santa Cecilia Music Conservatory in Rome, the Bucharest National Opera, the Rome Municipality, the George Enescu International Singing Competition in Paris, the West University of Timisoara, the George Enescu National Music Museum, the George Enescu National University of Arts in Iasi, the Bucharest Association for Music, Art and Culture, the PropatriaVOX Association in Focsani, Hubart Agency, the Pro Contemporania Association, the "Dinu Lipatti" Youth International Music Competition, the Association of Romanian Language Israeli Writers.
AGERPRES National News Agency is media partner of the event.
