Classical music

The 42nd Istanbul Music Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), opened June 1 with a ceremony at the Lütfi Kırdar Congress and Exhibition Hall. For the opening, the Borusan Children’s Choir, under the baton of Gürsen Yavuzkal, performed a short concert. İKSV President Bülent Eczacıbaşı presented the contributors to the festival with plaques.

Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra will perform for the first time in the public area of Terminal 2 of Sofia Airport on the occasion of Europe Day on 9 May.

BELGRADE - The opera concert entitled 'From Rossini to Mascagni' will take place in the National Theatre in Belgrade on Saturday, May 10, the Theatre announced on Wednesday.

A rising international opera star will be interpreting two landmark works by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis in Athens on Thursday, March 27.

With European and local authority elections looming, the political exchanges between co-ruling New Democracy and the main leftist opposition SYRIZA have intensified even as a new party casting itself as anti-establishment appears to be drawing support from both parties, according to opinion polls.

BELGRADE - The participants of the 4th international Belgrade Baroque Academy, dedicated to "Scenes from operas by Handel and Monteverdi", which took place last week, will give the final public performance on Saturday evening at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Jane Glover, conductor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, will conduct the Belgrade Philharmonic performing a concert within On High Heels cycle at the Kolarac Endowment on February 14.

After almost two decades, Lady Glover will again lead the Belgrade Philharmonic in a new concert cycle presenting outstanding female conductors, the Philharmonic announced.