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OPERA APERTA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2026

The International Opera Aperta Festival 2026 opens on Sunday, 21 June, with a sunrise concert held at Wonderland Resort in Feleac. The event proposes a special format, in which both the time of day and the natural setting become part of the concert concept. The opening of the festival is thus built around the idea of beginning, light, and the direct encounter between music and space.

The concert will be performed by the “Camerata Academica” Orchestra of the “Gheorghe Dima” National Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, conducted by guest conductor Rafał Janiak. The invited soloist will be violinist Kamila Wasik-Janiak.

The programme brings together works from the European symphonic repertoire, in a sequence that begins with lyrical and contemplative pages and gradually moves towards pieces with a more pronounced rhythmic and orchestral profile. The audience will hear the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, selections from Gabriel Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Après un rêve, the celebrated Largo from Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”, Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, as well as two works by Maurice Ravel: Tzigane, for violin and orchestra, and Boléro.

Through this concert, the anniversary edition of Opera Aperta 2026 begins its programme in a setting outside the traditional concert hall, continuing the festival’s direction of bringing music into diverse urban and natural contexts, accessible to a wide audience.

The event has no interval and is expected to end around 7:00 AM.

Admission is free.

Recommended age: 12+

The International Opera Aperta Festival is organised with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Cluj-Napoca City Hall, the Cluj-Napoca Local Council, the Cluj County Council, and the “Opera 2 You” Association.