Events

Performance in partnership with the National Theatre in Bucharest.

On December 13, 2023, at 7 pm, we invite you to the Atelier Hall of NTB for an exceptional recital of music and poetry, in which the 11 eleven elegies of the great poet Nichita Stanescu, masterpieces of Romanian poetry, are highlighted on stage by the unmistakable personality of the artist Sergiu Cioiu.

A performance that will delight Nichita's lovers and also the young people who now have the chance to meet him. The music of the performance is played live by violinist and musician Sabin Penea, in harmony with Nichita's spirit and Sergiu Cioiu's inspiration.

Nichita invites us to rediscover ourselves through his 11 elegies: "The poet's poetry stirs the intimate poetry of each of us. A poet is all the greater when those who read him discover not him, but themselves". (Self-Portrait, 1982)

About the great artist Sergiu Cioiu, Nichita Stanescu said that "he becomes himself a spectacle. The joy of his interpretation opens our eyelids with a rising star." ("La o adică", 1982)

"Sergiu Cioiu established himself in the 60s and 70s of the last century in the elite of Romanian promoters of quality pop music with a predominantly poetic substrate. Soloist employed between 1964 and 1967 at the Constantin Tănase Revival Theatre in Bucharest; present in August 1965 on the stage of the famous Olympia Theatre in Paris, selected by none other than Bruno Coquatrix and compared to Yves Montand; then, embracing an activity of "freelancer", revealed on prestigious podiums in Romania, France, USSR, Poland, Belgium, Holland, Israel; between 1972 and 1975, he became an actor at the Ion Dacian Operetta Theatre in Bucharest; then, between 1975 and 1982, he became an acting teacher. These are the main milestones of a career that consecrated Sergiu Cioiu as an outstanding artist-intellectual and gave him a great reputation." (Florian Lungu, critic and radio journalist)

Violinist Sabin Penea, born in Tulcea, graduated from the National University of Music, then studied in Graz, Austria, with violinist Silvia Marcovici, and in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, under the guidance of violinist Sebastian Hamann, where he also obtained his second master's degree in music. He is the winner of the first prize at the Kreutzer competition in Liege, Belgium, the special jury prize at the Marie Cantagrill competition in Saint-Girons, France, the silver medal and the Dvořák special prize at the Plovdiv International Chamber Music Competition, Bulgaria.

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu