{"id":3226,"date":"2025-01-09T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2025-01-09T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T06:00:16","slug":"weekend-calendar-johann-strauss-festival-new-year-concert-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3226","title":{"rendered":"Weekend calendar: Johann Strauss Festival, New Year concert, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Events are slowly picking up as the holiday season has ended and the Bucharest offer this weekend includes several concerts and exhibitions.<\/h4>\n<p><strong>In Bucharest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra &#8211; 100 Gypsy Violins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>January 11<\/p>\n<p>Sala Palatului is set to become the \u201cplayground\u201d for this ensemble bringing together \u201cvirtuosity and an infectious zest for life\u201d to deliver an extensive repertoire. More details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertix.ro\/evenimente\/19955\/budapest-gypsy-symphony-orchestra-100-gypsy-violins-11-ianuarie-2025-sala-palatului-bucuresti.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Johann Strauss Festival<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>January 11<\/p>\n<p>George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Constantin Grigore, celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss II with a concert at the Romanian Athenaeum. More details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventim.ro\/ro\/bilete\/festivalul-johann-strauss-bucuresti-ateneul-roman-554921\/event.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>New Year concert<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>January 12<\/p>\n<p>Paul Constantinescu Philharmonic in Ploie\u015fti delivers this concert hosted by the Romanian Athenaeum. The program includes works by Johann Strauss II, Franz Leh\u00e1r, Jacques Offenbach, and Johann Strauss I. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fge.org.ro\/calendar\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Garden of Lights: Beauty and the Beast<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Until March 2<\/p>\n<p>The Botanical Garden hosts another edition of the Garden of Lights event, this time with the theme of Beauty and the Beast. More details\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenoflights.com\/ro\/bucharest\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mnemonics [back to the future] <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Until February 8<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition, occasioned by GAEP\u2019s 10th anniversary, brings together new works by all the 14 artists that the gallery represents or collaborates with on a long-term basis. More details\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/570527425461787\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the country:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Lights of Caravaggio. The Beginning of Modernity in European Painting, Masterpieces from the Roberto Longhi Collection<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Until February 28<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition, which aims to highlight Caravaggio&#8217;s influence among his contemporaries and his contribution to European Baroque, includes one painting by Caravaggio, alongside works by artists such as Lorenzo Lotto, Juseppe Ribera, Gian Battista Caracciolo, Dirck van Baburen, Mattia Preti, Gerrit Van Honthorst. More details\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mnart.museum\/expozitia-luminile-lui-caravaggio\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UnWorlding<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Until March 1<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition by artistic duo Anca Benera and Arnold Estef\u00e1n, the Romanian artists based in Vienna, is open at the Art Encounters Foundation in Timi\u0219oara. More\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/artencounters.ro\/en\/unworlding-a-rare-opportunity-to-explore-recent-works-by-the-artistic-duo-anca-benera-and-arnold-estefan\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/stelianpavalache_info\">Pavalache Stelian<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/stock-photos\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>editor@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events are slowly picking up as the holiday season has ended and the Bucharest offer this weekend includes several concerts and exhibitions. In Bucharest: Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra &#8211; 100 Gypsy Violins January 11 Sala Palatului is set to become the \u201cplayground\u201d for this ensemble bringing together \u201cvirtuosity and an infectious zest for life\u201d to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}