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From July 7 to September 8, 2025, the NTB Amphitheater and the Summer Nights up on the Theatre program, organized by the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theater in Bucharest, presented the public with an attractive and relaxing cultural offering, combining genres and styles. The summer that just ended brought dozens of performances to the NTB Amphitheatre, presented in partnership with independent theatres, meetings with young artists, but also with established names in theatre: Oana Pellea, Maia Morgenstern, Richard Bovnoczki, Marian Ralea, Marius Manole, Ada Milea, Raluca Aprodu, Ofelia Popii, Lari Giorgescu, Cezar Antal, and many others.

For the second year running, Rooftop Season, organized in collaboration with Overground Music, continued its series of exciting and energizing concerts: Byron, Luiza Zan & Jazzpar Trio, Dimitri's Bats, Coma, The Mono Jacks, Toulouse Lautrec & Rana, Valeria Stoica, Paul Tihan & Andra Andriuca.

The open-air amphitheater is a unique venue in Romania, offering a welcoming space for artists and audiences alike, located on the National Theater, 24 meters above University Square. Under the open sky, guest artists and over 8,000 spectators enjoyed unique evenings and a variety of performances this summer.

Oana Pellea: What happens at NTB, under the name Amphitheater, has become a phenomenon! Summer evenings at the NTB Amphitheater are a joy for both the audience and the actors. I enjoy every time I perform at the Amphitheatre, up there. Performing "The Little Prince" under the starry sky was a truly wonderful experience. Thank you, NTB Amphitheatre! Thank you to the person who organizes this little miracle every year: Cristiana Gavrila!

Maia Morgenstern: I appreciate and am grateful for your dedication and determination to host, in the best possible sense, meaning to provide space, time, place, and energy! I was welcomed with warmth and interest, everything was adapted, and it was not easy, in record time... For everything you have done this summer, for all the shows and for the large number of spectators, I would say it is a SUCCESS!

Lari Giorescu: The NTB Amphitheater is a place where theater breathes directly from the sky and the city. Ever since 2018, when Ion Caramitru opened this space with an event that I had the pleasure of being part of, I have felt it to be a unique place. There, acting becomes confession, and the audience seems closer to the heart than to the stage. In the open air, magic is born simply and inevitably, like an encounter between dream and reality.

Ada Milea: Because "human being makes the place holy," I believe that the human being also makes the roof holy. At sunset. Right under the sky, in the Amphitheater, the technical and organizational team of the NTB in the Amphitheater manages to create a fantastic connection between the audience and the artists. I don't know how... These wonderful people ended up in that gorgeous place and it just so happened that they called us to sing and...

Marius Manole: The summer season at the National Theater is like a festival, a big festival that takes place during the summer, a period when artists are usually free and don't have much work, and audiences are deprived of performances. And now, the season at the National Theater in Bucharest brings benefits to both the public and the artists. This year's season was wonderful, and we hope that this summer season will become a habit and a tradition.

Richard Bovnoczki: The NTB Amphitheater... a place where the audience embraces the stage! Where the intimate space is open to the sky. The performances held there have a special energy. Everything is much more demanding at that height... but the satisfaction is just as great. See you next year!

Ofelia Popii: A superb, wonderful space. This year, I played there for the first time and felt everything much more intensely. The city was buzzing, and that made me feel like our story belongs to everyone, that it could belong to those I could feel and hear living their lives.

Valeria Stoica: The concert at NTB felt like a perfect soundtrack, a journey through many different moods, complemented by the extraordinary location on the theater's roof, under the open sky. The wind created a special atmosphere, heralding rain that never came. I am very grateful to be able to perform in such locations, with such a beautiful and encouraging audience.

Dan Byron: The NTB Amphitheater is one of the places where we feel closest to the audience. This year's Rooftop Season concert was one of the top three concerts of our entire career, and I can't wait to go back there.

Nicu Alifantis: Everything that happens here, on the roof, is lost in the sky, passing under Uncle Iancu's nose the fine aromas of what he loved so much. Theater, Music, Poetry. The open-air amphitheater, during the summer season, lifts you even closer to the heavens where dreams become reality or reality turns into dreams, only to later become a memory that, like cigarette smoke, lasts a season, a year, a lifetime...

And whenever I pass by, all I can do is look up at the hat of the great Caragiale, greet him with boundless respect, take off my hat, and thank everyone who made this open-air altar possible. Autumn has arrived, farewell Uncle Iancu, we will see each other again in the summer, in the evening.!

Since 2019, the NTB Amphitheater has been a project supported by PPC Romania.

Program developed with the support of Huawei Romania, Aqua Carpatica, Eisberg, Jidvei.

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu