The year 2023 has been declared by law the Year of Ciprian Porumbescu and, on this occasion, the National Museum of Bukovina organized an itinerant exhibition dedicated to the great composer, which will be presented in April, in the Large Square in Sibiu.
Created in an attractive format for the public, the exhibition includes panels with information, testimonies and evocations on various aspects of Ciprian Porumbescu's life: childhood and the first school years in Ilișești; the time when he was a student in Suceava, the "Academy" of violinists from Stupca –authentic music school; The Putna celebration from 1871; the time when he studied theology and philosophy in Chernivtsi; "Arboroasa" student society and the Habsburg prison; Berta - an impossible love; the time when he studied in Vienna, when he was a music teacher in Brașov; the premiere of the Operetta "Crai Nou", "Italie! Italie!".
The exhibition also includes the sections "The tragic end of an immortal artist", "In memory of posterity", as well as images from the Ciprian Porumbescu Memorial House and Museum.
With this exhibition, Ciprian Porumbescu will be present, throughout the whole year, at the Brașov History Museum, the National Museum of the Union (Alba Iulia), the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, the Banat Museum and the Chernivtsi Regional Museum.