Bucharest Opera Festival, Fourth Edition, June 15–24, on the Stage of the Bucharest National Opera

The Bucharest National Opera presents the fourth edition of the Bucharest Opera Festival, which will take place between June 15 and 24, 2025. Tickets are already on sale.

The festival program is available at this link: https://operanb.ro/calendar/?luna=06&anul=2025

Tickets can be purchased at http://tickets.operanb.ro/ and at the Bucharest National Opera House Ticket Office.

Now in its fourth edition, the Bucharest Opera Festival will feature, over the course of 10 evenings, a variety of performances including opera, ballet, operetta, rock musical-opera, and opera in concert, with 10 different companies, including two international guests: the Maria Bieșu National Opera and Ballet Theatre from Chișinău and the Ruse Opera from Bulgaria. Joining the Bucharest National Opera on the festival’s lineup are the Romanian National Opera Iași, the Romanian National Opera Timișoara, the Hungarian Opera of Cluj-Napoca, the Brașov Opera, the “Nae Leonard” Opera and Ballet Theatre from Galați, and the Radio Chamber Orchestra.

As in previous years, all the directors of Romania’s lyric theaters have succeeded in inspiring their artistic and technical teams to participate in this festival, contributing to transforming Bucharest into a premier cultural tourism destination.

Over 1,500 musicians, dancers, artistic and technical staff will take the stage, the orchestra pit, and the backstage at Bucharest Opera Festival 2025, as they do every June, on the same stage of the Bucharest National Opera House.

Bucharest Opera Festival is a ten-day event that brings the most important opera and ballet theaters from Romania — and beyond — to Bucharest, offering the public the opportunity to embark on diverse cultural journeys.

Launched in April 2025 with promotional events in London and New York to attract an international audience, the Bucharest Opera Festival last year welcomed British critic Peter Quantrill, who reflected on the event from a Western perspective:

“Imagine ten different opera companies from Italy agreeing to perform on the same stage — imagine coordinating all the singers, musicians, technical, and support teams so that an entire production can be installed overnight, rehearsed during the day, performed in the evening, and then dismantled immediately, making room for another production and another company. Impossible! But Daniel Jinga and his colleagues at the Bucharest National Opera have been making the impossible happen for three years now. This year, instead of focusing on a single figure, the June festival offers a representative overview of Romania’s lyrical culture. There are four fully staged operas, three ballets, one operetta, one musical, and one opera in concert. Companies from two neighboring countries — Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova — will also participate, with the rest of the program generated by lyric theaters and operas from across Romania. Thus, although you will be able to see Nabucco, Cinderella, Gounod’s Faust, and Jesus Christ Superstar, the main theme of the 2025 Festival is the vibrant lyrical life of Romania.”