More than 60 local wine producers from Protected Geographical Indication regions will participate in the 17th edition of the National Wine Day. The event will be held under the generic “Wine from the soul of Moldova”, on 6-7 October this year.

For the first time, the holiday will expand its geographical area, taking place in Snagov, Romania, where 20 wine-makers from the Republic of Moldova will gather together under a country brand.

For two days, people of Chisinau will enjoy wine producers’ exhibitions, the wine school, a painting area, an area devoted to public catering, wine tours, and improvised peasant courts.

The prime minister Pavel Filip accentuated that this holiday is a good opportunity to promote our country as a wine tourism destination.

On Friday evening, in Chisinau, the opening of the International Festival of Opera and Ballet “Maria Biesu” reached its 26th edition. This year, the festival started with the famous opera in four acts “Macbeth” by Giuseppe Verdi, and the masterpiece of the world lyric, directed by Andreea Battistini (Italy), lead by conductor Nicolae Dohotaru.

Traditionally, the event brings to the stage of the National Opera and Ballet Theater some of the world’s most valuable artists, but also the most notable artistic forces in the country.

The 20th edition of the International Opera and Ballet Festival “Maria Biesu” takes place between September 7-16 and will end with a grand gala concert with the famous names in the international lyrical world: the legendary Tenor Peruvian – Juan Diego Florez; our great soprano – Valentina Naforniţă; Andrei Jilihovschi; Mihail Dogotaru; Igor Turcanu, etc., who will turn an ordinary Sunday evening into a memorable one.

12 May 2018- The Moldovan band DoReDos got on the 10th place in the Eurovision Song Contest, held in 2018 in Lisbon. The song ‘My Lucky Day’ got 209 points in the voting session.

DoReDoS is a Moldovan folk-pop trio formed in 2011, they got their name from the first two notes of the musical scale. The trio is made up of Marina Djundiet, Eugeniu Andrianov, and Sergiu Mîța. They met in their hometown and decided to form a band together.

In 2017, DoReDoS won the contest New Wave in Sochi, Russia and there they caught the attention of Russian singer, songwriter, and 1995 Russian participant Philipp Kirkorov, who composed the song My Lucky Day for DoReDoS’ entry for the Moldovan national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, O melodie pentru Europa 2018. The band is controversially viewed in Moldova because of its origin in the separatist Transnistrian region. In several instances, the three singers were seen waving the separatist flag of the “Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic”.