The TES summer season at Casa Eliad brings culture into the centre of Bucharest with a series of open-air performances, concerts and events. It is a celebration of urban art, meant to bring public space back to life and to draw the community together through theatre and music. Dedicated to the people of Bucharest and to cultural diversity, the TES summer season at Casa Eliad offers a varied programme, from concerts to open-air theatre.
Through June 2026, TES will present 5 performances at Casa Eliad (5 Mircea Vodă Boulevard), on Fridays and Sundays, as follows:
Sunday 7 June, 19.30
Friday, 19 June, 19.00
Pearls on the Cobblestones
A concert of traditional Jewish music
Language: Yiddish
Running time: 70 minutes
Jewish folk music - a priceless treasure of the world's cultural heritage - has always been a reference point in the Jewish theatre repertoire. The cultural crucible of Eastern Europe is where the best loved and most original creations of traditional Jewish music were born: Jewish instrumental music, known as klezmer. The modal character of Jewish melodies has won the hearts of many generations of audiences, and its distinctive themes and tonalities carry the art ever upward. We warmly invite you to discover the magic of traditional Jewish music.
Cast: Roxana Guttman, Geni Brenda Vexler, Arabela Neazi, Viorica Predica, Katia Pascariu, Lorena Luchian, Monia Pricopi, Alina Tomi, Isadora Băltățeanu, Carla Lifșin, Nae Călugărița, Mihai Ciucă, Andrei Miercure, Mihai Prejban, George Remeș, Filip Popescu
With the Orchestra of the State Jewish Theatre
Musical direction: Bogdan Lifșin
Details about the production here.
Friday 12 June, 19.00
Sunday 14 June, 20.00
Sunday, 21 June, 19.00
A Song, a Joke and a Drop in the Glass!
A musical production
Language: Romanian
Running time: 80 minutes
"A Song, a Joke and a Drop in the Glass" is a cabaret piece that revives, in contemporary form, the subtle, ironic spirit of interwar Jewish cabaret.
Built on the texts of Jewish cabaret artists from the first half of the twentieth century and enriched with the songs that defined the genre, the production offers a staged excursion into the world of a culture in which humour and melancholy coexist in a delicate balance.
Structured as a mosaic of performed moments - monologues, dialogues, live musical interventions - the work explores, with delicacy and depth, themes that never lose their currency: identity, love, exile, the fragility of the human condition and, of course, the mechanisms of survival through art. The irony and self-irony proper to this tradition are woven together into a piece at once intimate and expressive. The performers take on a plurality of guises - actors, singers, storytellers - establishing a direct and nuanced relationship with the audience, in an atmosphere that recalls the effervescence of Yiddish culture. The live music is essential to the unity of the whole, in which cultural memory is reconsidered and enriched with contemporary meaning.
More than an exercise in evocation, "A Song, a Joke and a Drop in the Glass" becomes an act of reflection on the regenerative force of humour and on the capacity of Jewish art to preserve and pass on identity. The production thus stands as a tribute to the human spirit, expressed with elegance and offered in the spirit of a symbolic toast to life.
Cast: Geni Brenda Vexler, Arabela Neazi, Mirela Nicolau, Iolanda Covaci, Darius Daradici, Andrei Miercure, Mihai Nițu, Vlad Nicolici, Filip Popescu
With the Orchestra of the State Jewish Theatre
Details about the production here.
Dear audience, we invite you to the TES Summer Season at Casa Eliad, to enjoy together musical performances of real quality, in a format that celebrates the creative energy of the city.
The TES Summer Season at Casa Eliad is an event held in partnership with Bucharest City Hall and ARCUB - the Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Bucharest, as principal partner (host of the event).
Admission is free, subject to available seating.