The George Enescu festival which will be organized next year in September will include 150 events and will have a budget of EUR 9 million, already approved by Romania's Government. This will be the 21st edition of the festival, organized in Romania's capital every two years. Financing will come from Romania's Culture Ministry. The festival will take place between September 1 and 28 in 2013.

As many as 14 large orchestras, 21 ensembles will hold 28 concerts, four opera show, two ballet shows, as well as 48 concerts within the international competition of the Festival. Information about where concerts will be held was not released yet. The Bucharest Mayor recently said he was planing to start work on a new concert hall on the esplanada of the current Bucharest National Library, and which could be ready for the next edition of the Enescu festival.

Last year, as many as 16,000 people attended around 100 concerts in the festival. For 2013, already confirmed are Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Maris Jansons, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Orchestra dell'Accademia Santa Cecilia di Roma, Antonio Pappano, Orchestre de Paris, Name Jarvi - London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Radio Berlin, Marek Janowski, among others.

Romania philharmonic orchestras from Cluj – Napoca, Iasi and Timisoara, as well as the National Bucharest Orchestra. Awarded prizes will go up to EUR 30,000.

Subscriptions for the festival will go on sale on January 15, 2013, and tickets in April 2013. The George Enescu festival is organized by Artexim, an institution under the Romania's Culture Ministry umbrella, and with the support of the Bucharest City Hall via Arcub, in collaboration with the Art production foundation.

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(photo source: Enescu festival website)