Gyorgy Ligeti

Ljubljana – A new festival of contemporary classical music got under way in virtual format on Tuesday, continuing the 20-year tradition of the Slowind Festival. The New Music Forum, a project of the newly founded society Uho, will feature four concerts in December and two in April and aim to create a platform for outstanding Slovenian musicians.

The Goethe Institute in Sofia will steam live concerts of the Berlin Philharmonic, sources of the Institute said.

Out of hundreds of Goethe Institutes all over the planet, the one in Sofia is one of the very few, which is permitted to take part in this program.

A new work by Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis goes on stage at the Rex Theater's Kotopouli Stage in downtown Athens for a series of shows running November 3-27. Jointly produced by the Greek National Ballet and the Greek National Theater, "Galaxy" explores the universe's creation and evolution through movement and music penned by Gyorgy Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis and Julien Tarride.

BELGRADE - The ballet The Picture of Dorian Gray, inspired by the 1891 Oscar Wilde novel of the same title, will premiere at the National Theatre in Belgrade on March 30.

Through the story about Dorian Gray, the famous Irish writer criticises the hypocrisy and immorality of his immediate environment, and choreographer Vladimir Logunov says that the story is very current even today.