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The National Theatre from Bucharest lights the most beautiful Christmas stars:

Ion Caramitru and Horaţiu Mălăele - winter stories on Adrian Naidin's extraordinary music

Around Christmas, Ion Caramitru and Horaţiu Mălăele will continue their dialogues on the Great Stage of the National Theatre from Bucharest, so that they can tell winter stories to the ones who were close to them in one year. We await you with good thoughts and a decorated Christmas tree, with verses whispered by two talented actors and old Romanian carols, played by the extraordinary cellist Adrian Naidin. Verses and songs bring joy to an elegant evening with a representation performed during the entire year in a fully booked hall, in the applause of theatre lovers from Bucharest and the country. Tears and bursts of laughter, emotions of every kind in an improvisation show...because improvisation is, actually, an actor's state of grace, as Horaţiu Mălăele said. Volcanic and inspired by personalities who enlighten souls, from Sorescu to Nichita, Mălăele challenges Ion Caramitru with verses, and Caramitru recites stirred up, evoking Shakespeare, Eminescu or Sorescu only to bring closer the sweet joy of the winter holidays.

On a cello that reaches notes of a rare beauty and perfection, Adrian Naidin gathers the tears and the laughs of others, which he transforms into chant, sang with his absolutely incredible voice: an exceptional ambitus, a timbre specific to the type of Romanian ballads that touch your soul, a gradation and a control which are heard only at the great opera singers. Caramitru - Mălăele, spinning a yarn collects a few rounds of laughter, in an acrobat-dialogue sliding to profound themes and moments of poetry, to theatre and the personal experiences of the two discussion partners.

Seductive, with irresistible humour and depth that made them legends, Ion Caramitru and Horaţiu Mălăele face each other once more at the National Theatre, accompanied by Adrian Naidin's extraordinary cello.

Saturday, 22^nd December 2012, at 17.00 and 20:00

The Great Hall, NTB

Ticket price:

Category 1: 100 lei
Category 2: 80 lei
Category 3: 60 lei
Category 4: 30 lei   

The tickets can be purchased at the NTB's Ticket Agency and on www.bilete.ro

Translated by: Izabella Feher