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Event hosted by the National Theatre from Bucharest. The responsibility for the quality and content of this event lies solely with the organizer!

In my childhood days, all stories began with once upon a time... And because what's next will be a story, I'll tell you: Once upon a time, a long time ago, a young man just stepping into life.

And he kept walking until the road brought him to the great city of Bucharest where he discovered and discovered himself. And what came out was what came out. Since then, fifty winters have fallen upon my head, since I first stepped onto the stage. Now when I realize how much time has passed I don't know whether to be cheerful or sullen, proud or modest, enthusiastic or melancholic. I have no nostalgia and no regrets. I feel fulfilled and that's all.

I think with joy that out of fifty winters, the last ten have been spent with these wonderful people who are with me today in this particularly beautiful winter tale. Beautiful and fragile like an old porcelain. Thank you, Razvan, Mihai, Lyuben, Adrian. I am grateful for all that you have given me and allowed me to undertake with you.

Why A Winter's Tale? Because this winter I bring you this gift, FragileBand. Something that will seem to come from a whole other dimension. From where beautiful stories are born.

With true kindness, with the magic dust of selflessness, with the magical scent of the tree, with the beauty of children's eyes watching him adorned. And, of course, with sadness for those fragile souls who don't have all this.

50 years or 10 years is not a lot, but it's not a little. Thank God for all these years, thank God for smiling on me and allowing me to do what I liked and thank you for being there for me. In concert halls, on stage and in my heart.

Fragile, as an artistic construction, was conceived as a multicultural project, a gentle, sweet show. We put together living, acoustic instruments, vibrating with emotion, like the lively fibers from which they were born, with poetry that delicately or vigorously erupts in feelings, love stories, feelings, fears, encounters, separations, like our existence.

What came out of this convoluted alchemy? A music in various rhythms and languages, a journey from fado to rock, on whispers of Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Aromanian poetry, a symbolic elixir of life, which I hope you will enjoy!

So let's step into the world of stories, the magic of the stage, into a corner of my soul,

Santa Niculae Alifantis.

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu