Good news for those who have tried and failed to get hold of tickets for the George Enescu Festival in September: Grand Cinema Digiplex will be broadcasting some concerts live in the Baneasa Shopping City cinema. It will be the first time concerts in the festival have been broadcast in cinemas.

“Considering that tickets for most performances have already sold out, I wanted to open the festival up to a larger number of viewers than just those who have tickets for the concerts,” said Oana Marinescu, communications director of the George Enescu Festival, quoted by local news agency Mediafax. Tickets for the orchestral music festival in memory of the great Romanian composer George Enescu have proved enormously popular. Both the festival passes, which went on sale on January 15, and concert tickets, available from April 15, virtually sold out within hours of going on sale.

Tickets for cinema screenings of concerts went on sale on April 29 and are available June 23. Standard tickets cost RON 45, while premium tickets are RON 50 and both are available on the Grand Cinema Digiplex website.

Over 150 events are scheduled to take place from September 1 to 28 for the 2013 George Enescu Festival, in Bucharest and several other cities – Arad, Bacau, Brasov, Cluj, Iasi, Oradea, Sibiu and Timisoara.

The festival will again celebrate Enescu’s compositions alongside performances of works by other great composers, such as Giuseppe Verdi and Benjamin Britten, Schoenberg, Mahler and Beethoven.

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