On Friday, May 9th, 2025, a press conference was held at the initiative of the management team of the Ion Dacian National Operetta and Musical Theatre, during which the main artistic directions and the events of the 2025-2026 season were presented. Ioana Țintea attended the event.

The Ion Dacian National Operetta and Musical Theatre in Bucharest officially announced the 2025-2026 season during a press meeting held on Friday, May 9th, 2025, in the theatre's foyer.

Radu Petrovici, the theatre's general manager, presented the artistic directions and his ambitious vision for his mandate: transforming the theatre, by 2028, into the most important institution of its kind in Romania and a model of best practices in musical theatre. He also introduced the management team that will accompany him in this endeavour: tenor AlexandruBadea as Artistic Director, Marina Minoiu as Head of the Ballet Department, and AlexandruPătrașcu as Deputy General Manager, responsible for strategy and the implementation of the management project. The special guest was composer Josef Kappl, founding member of the band Phoenix.

Regarding the general outline of the upcoming season at the Ion Dacian National Operetta and Musical Theatre, officially announced during the press conference, the institution's manager, Radu Petrovici, stated:

"The 2025-2026 season features major titles. We arereferring to the choreographic musical Dance Ballerina Dance, having its premiere on November 28th. We want to bring back Die Fledermaus, premiering on December 21st. And we aim to celebrate the bicentennial of Johann Strauss the son with the concert-performance Viennese Blood on October 18th. These are the most important events of the autumn season, and they will also include a few collaborative performances. This means the revue show I Love You, I Want You, But You Change and the musical Next to Normal, which will enter our repertoire.

This year, we also launched a project dedicated to young audiences, aiming to bring them closer to us and to the world of musical theatre. It's called The Human Voice. We inaugurated it with the mono-opera by Francis Poulenc, and we invite you next month, on June 18th, for a restage of this opera in a double feature with Le Bel Indifférent, a play by Jean Cocteau.

In the autumn, we will continue with the youth program: the production Operetta - Birth Certificate, which includes Pergolesi's opera buffa La servapadrona and two secular cantatas by Bach: thePeasant Cantata and the Coffee Cantata. Through this project, we aim to keep young artists closer to us. We hope to bring back this type of project every year.

For next year, given the unpredictability of the budget, we don't have exact dates to share at this time, but I would like to bring operetta back to our audience, as it has been somewhat lacking - the repertoire is currently a bit unbalanced. We're referring to the operetta Silvia, which will be directed by KERO.

Most likely in June 2026, we will present a truly exceptional musical premiere. We aim to uphold the standards of best practices in the field. This will not be a franchised production from Broadway or the West End, but an entirely original creation by the Ion Dacian National Operetta and Musical Theatre. It is a musical based on the double album Cantafabule by the legendary band Phoenix, considered by music critics to be the greatest Romanian rock album of all time.