The 2013 edition of the George Enescu festival, the event that celebrates the work of the Romanian composer and brings some of the world’s finest orchestral musicians to the country, continues to attract thousands of foreign tourists to Romania.

“Around 20,000 tickets and subscriptions were sold to foreigners,” said Valentin Vasiloiu, Eventim.ro executive manager, quoted by local business publication Zf.ro. He also added that a total of 40,000 individual tickets were put up for sale for this year’s edition of the festival, and that only 7,000 tickets are still available.

Romania’s George Enescu festival is organized once every two years and celebrates the work of the Romanian composer. 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.

One of the most charismatic American actors, John Malkovich, two times nominated for Academy Award, will come for the first time in Romania in September this year, when he will play the role of a serial killer in The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer. The event is part of the George Enescu festival program, which also includes Vortice Dance Company’s Dracula show and Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung (Der Ring des Nibelungen) tetralogy perfomance.

More about the festival and the entire program here.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com