The Show is presented in partnership with the I.L. Caragiale National Theater in Bucharest

A performance that makes you laugh… and before you know it, you find yourself moved.

Poems that are sometimes funny, sometimes tender, delivered exactly as they’re felt—and the piano isn’t just background music; it’s a stage partner, an accomplice to every emotion.

A whirlwind of emotions you enter smiling and leave… changed.

If you’re in the mood to feel, not just to listen—this is the place for you.

Love! This feeling we all experience inspired us to select the poems and musical excerpts that make up the performance “Adam and the Piano” We thus explored the many facets of love: purity, passion, and a mother’s love. The result is a winning formula that we present below:

Take Madalina Pasol, an internationally renowned concert pianist who has performed in Berlin, Rome, Paris, at the George Enescu Festival, the Romanian Athenaeum, the National Opera, and many other venues across the country—and pair her with Eduard Adam, an actor at the National Theater in Bucharest, with an innate talent for recitation, honed under the guidance of Ion Caramitru—himself a good friend of the muse Calliope. What comes out of this? Well, a poetic performance.

A performance born of the need for beauty in a world fraught with crises. An oasis of normality, simplicity, and raw emotion. A simple yet profound artistic act, touching on the essential points here and there. And with humor, as both artists believe that humor is part of life and, therefore, of any form of artistic expression.

The performance lacks something, however: pathos. It has none at all, the poetry simply flowing to the delicate chords of the piano.

So the recipe is simple. You don’t even need to add salt and pepper. It has plenty of its own.

Adam and the Piano

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu