Oedipus – the US premiere, a film by Mihai Cosma

Produced by Senso TV, Mihai Cosma’s documentary (associate professor and director of the Research Department at the Conservatory in Bucharest) records the success of the Enescu mini-festival at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2005, an event authored by viruoso violinist and academic Sherban Lupu, which hosted the US premiere of Oedipe, Enescu’s masterpiece opera.

The documentary was widely acclaimed by critics in Romania. The film screening will be followed by a mini-conference by Mihai Cosma and a short recital by young pianist Irina Vasilescu. Mr. Gabriel Banat will be the guest of honor for the evening and he will comment the film and discuss Enescu’s eprsonality alongside whom he concerted both in Romania and the United States. Mr. Banat is a distinguished musician, a concert violinist with a long career in the New York Philharmonic, an academic and the author of several music monographs, the latest of which, The Chevalier de Saint-Georges – Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow, has been published this year by Pendragon Press.