Events

On the occasion of the celebration of the 95th anniversary of Radio Romania in 2023, Radio Romania Cultural brings an emblematic event to the stage of the National Theatre in Bucharest: The Nocturnes, initiated by Miriam Raducanu.

On Monday, September 11, 2023, at 7 pm, at the Studio Hall of the National Theatre in Bucharest, the performance Radio-Nocturn will take place. "Gigi Caciuleanu / Confessions".

The choreographies of Miriam Raducanu and Gigi Caciuleanu will bring back to the stage the atmosphere of the famous Nocturne that fascinated the audience of the Tandarica Theatre since the end of the 60s.

Also, Gigi Caciuleanu's confessions accompanied by unpublished images with Miriam Raducanu, The Enchanted, will recount touching moments, some never before heard, from the creative laboratory or from the backstage of these unique events of the time.

At the first Nocturn 9 ½, the actor Virgil Ogasanu was the special guest, who gladly accepted to return on stage this time too.

At Gigi Caciuleanu's invitation, the actor Lari Giorgescu, the choreographer Lelia Marcu-Vladu, the actress Alina Petrica and the soprano Oana Berbec will also perform.

Public access will be free of charge, on the basis of invitations that can be obtained through bilet.ro.

"Nocturnes, performances initiated by Miriam Raducanu at the equally courageous proposal of Margareta Niculescu, the emblematic director of the Tandarica puppet theatre in Bucharest, were for us, the artists, as well as for the audience, moments and opportunities to escape.

Those Nocturnes, perhaps even more than a series of cult performances, are a metaphor, if not of freedom, at least of liberation.

I was lucky enough to be with Miriam from the first Nocturne to the sixth.

I was not dancing with a dancer or choreographer, let alone a teacher, I was dancing with an idea, with a METAPHOR, in the Brancusi sense, with the Enchanted, Miriam Raducanu", confesses Gigi Caciuleanu.

The event will also mark the debut of Radio Romania Cultural's autumn season, entitled Memories. The recording will be available to listen to on air and to watch online on November 1, the day Radio Romania turns 95.

"The first choreographies "on my own", I can say, even if this may sound a bit strange, that I did them on the radio... It was before the Nocturne. Miriam had gone to the US for a while, and I had stayed... on my own! And then I had the opportunity to participate in some recitals. To dance. Which I did. "All out". To lines by great poets, spoken by great actors... In a series of poetry events staged at the Radio Hall by Elena Negreanu. It was then that I got my first taste, in a "professional" way, of what freedom is. A freedom of creation which, on top of that, was also super-well received by an extremely special audience." (Gigi Caciuleanu)

Producer: Radio Romania Cultural 
Co-producers: National Theatre of Bucharest/ArtProduction Foundation
With the support of: JTI 

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu