Until the age of 16, Ioana Bentoy, a teacher of soprano, singing and opera in Lausanne, lived with her parents (composer Pascal Bentoy and writer Annie Bentoy) in a house on Julius Fuchsik street, today Tomas Masaryk. In the house number 6.

The house where soprano Ioana Bentoi grew up, on Julius Fuchika street, now Tomas Masaryk no. 6.Photo: casedemuzicieni.ro, Opus Association

In 1948, the Bento family was evicted from the residence (Amzei entrance no. 2), and Ioana Bento’s paternal grandfather, Aureliano Bento, a lawyer and liberal politician, was thrown into prison. He will die in Jilava on June 27, 1962 after years of hard imprisonment.

The family was assigned to live in a nationalized house. Although she shared a bathroom and kitchen with several residents, Ioana Bentu remembers the place as a cathedral full of magic, with rooms 4 meters high, a fairy-tale bridge filled with treasures and a wonderful terrace from which you could see sky. full of stars over Bucharest since then.

About the house from a repeated dream and about the fate of a family of intellectuals and artists in an interview with soprano Ioana Benta on B365.ro.