100 years since the establishment of the Chisinau National Theater Cover Image

100 de ani de la înființarea Teatrului Național din Chișinău
100 years since the establishment of the Chisinau National Theater

Author(s): Aliona Grati, Petru Hadarca
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, History of Art
Published by: ArtPoligraf SRL
Keywords: history; Chișinău National Theater; interwar; performances in Romanian; “Mihai Eminescu” National Theater;

Summary/Abstract: The dialogue with Petru Hadârcă, director of the “Mihai Eminescu” Chișinău National Theater,but also a scientific researcher whose works include the doctoral thesis in the study of arts on the History of theRomanian Chișinău National Theater (memoirs of Romanian theater – places, performances, actors), has as itstheme the history of the Chișinău National Theater. The discussions were held both on the history of the institution (establishment, founders, repertoire, personalities: actors, art critics and historians), and on the buildingsin Chișinău where theater was made (in Romanian and Russian language) still from the tsarist period. Soviethistoriography covered several aspects with prohibitions and even instrumented some data through which itessentially modified the information about the past of the Chișinău Romanian-language theater. Arguments areput forward in favor of the fact that the history of the Chișinău National Theater, the first Romanian-languagetheater, but the first permanent, repertory theater, financed from public money from the east of the Prut, it beganon 6 October, 1921, thanks to the support of senior officials, Victor Eftimiu and Octavian Goga, the Minister ofCults and Arts of Romania.

  • Issue Year: III/2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 6-19
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian