Nicolae Bretan

Nicolae Bretan (Hungarian: Bretán Miklós; 25 March 1887 – 1 December 1968)[1] was a Romanian opera composer, baritone, conductor, and music critic.

[7] As a director, Bretan staged works by fellow Romanian composers—Brediceanu, Drăgoi, Monţia, Negrea—as well as by members of the European canon further afield: Mozart, Gluck, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, others.

Biographer Hartmut Gagelmann attributes Bretan's lack of wider recognition to censorship by the Communist Party of Romania,[16] though this claim has been disputed by contemporary scholars.

Bretan primarily chose poetic texts in Romanian, Hungarian, and German, occasionally penning his own translation of the source material into another of the three languages.

[22][23] In October 2013, another bust, also the work of the sculptor Ana Rus, was unveiled at the central alley of "Simion Barnuțiu" Park in Cluj, being donated to the city by the composer's daughter.