“Matilda, The Musical”, directed by Emil Pantelimon, received the prize for best children at the Uniter Awards Gala last night. With 41 representations seen by over 16,000 spectators, a favorite and at the vote of the public with almost 2,500 votes, the performance of the Comic Opera for Children raised the trophy on the stage of the National Theater “Marin Sorescu” in Craiova at the Uniter 2025 Awards Gala.
Felicia Filip, the manager of the Comic Opera for Children, together with Emil Pantelimon, the director of the show, thanked on behalf of a dedicated and united team, who now enjoys both the public’s appreciation and the guild recognition.
The XXXIII edition of the Uniter Awards Gala was held on May 26, 2025, being housed in Craiova, in the “Amza Pellea” hall of the National Theater “Marin Sorescu” and broadcast live by Romanian Television. In the category The best theater performance of animation / theater for children Productions of consecrated theaters such as the “Ion Creangă” Bucharest theater or the Gong Sibiu Theater, but also of the independent institutions, such as the Bucharest Theater and the Synchret Theater Theater Iași have been nominated.
For the entire team, Felicia Filip and Emil Pantelimon – a team made up of hundreds of people, each contributing with responsibility and passion to the success of this production. It also includes over 60 children enrolled in the School of Musical Program of the Comic Opera for Children, who treat art with seriousness and dedication, participating weekly in the intensive courses of the program.
“I thank the over 60 children in School of Musical, who repeat and learn 12 hours weekly, to play on the stage of the Comic Opera for Children. They are exceptional and have an energy that encourages us – For Matilda, but also for many of the shows, and especially for the future of the musical in Romania, we must thank them! ”said Emil Pantelimon on the stage of the event, the director of the winning show.
Entries for new groups within the School of Musical Program are opened on the Opecomica.ro website until June 10!
Musical again on the large stage of the comic work for children – a must see!
“School of Rock” returns to the stage, a musical whose director is also signed by Emil Pantelimon and whose distribution are the same exceptional children registered in the School of Musical Program. 16 representations are scheduled in June, and the last tickets are available on opecomica.ro!
The theater critic Monica Andronescu stated in a chronicle of the premiere of 2021 that “the musical School of Rock staged at the comic work for children is, beyond sensational music, a story about broken dreams and fulfilled dreams. And … in our period obsessed with parenting, a magnificent parenting lesson … to mount such production in such a complicated period as the one we have crossed is in itself an act of courage. But to succeed in Romania, where the history of the musical is quite thin, and the conditions for such mega-production are far from extraordinary, to make a show as School of Rockis a performance.
Nearly 20 children on stage, singing live, a huge energy, a joy to play and sing as I have never seen on a Bucharest stage, a gorgeous story about a little sad, with a child’s soul, who dreams up to the white canvas to sing … and to teach others, To a musical I would say almost necessary during this ugly, gray, sad period, in which children and adults alike were forced to stay away from each other. The joy of a rediscovered “together” is School of Rockafter months of “socializing” online. “
The comic work for children is a public culture institution under the subordination of the Capital City Hall and the General Council of Bucharest, headed since 2014 by Soprano Felicia Filip. Unique in the world through the public segment to which it is addressed, the comic work for children approaches the little ones of art and culture, both through quality shows-opera, ballet, musical, concerts, operetta, musical theater-as well as through various innovative projects such as summer and winter festivals, “Little Artist”, “Little Artist” Curtain “,” Birthday parties “,” Park Adventure “,” Subscriptions “or” Volunteer “.
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