Ljubljana Summer Festival 2006 is to open on Monday with the famous New York Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductor Lorin Maazel. The concert will honour Mozart by playing his Symphony No. 41 in C-Major, KV 551 "Jupiter" and Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D-Minor.
The festival, which closes on 31 August, will host 109 events with 3,500 performers from 20 different countries.
Alongside the central Summer Festival with morethan 80 different events, the name Ljubljana Festival 2006 also covers the Slovenian Days of Music, a fine arts workshop, a series of Latin-American concerts and other events.
This year's festival will be more varied, will have more quality and will offer several novelties, the honorary patron of the festival, Mayor of Ljubljana Danica Simsic pointed out at a presentation last month.
Simsic particularly mentioned the performance of the Sechuan Opera, explaining that she arranged its visit during her stay in China last year. The ensemble comes from Chengdu, a city which has been twined with Ljubljana for 25 years.
The manager and artistic director of the festival Darko Brlek said this year they had succeeded in attracting all the important cultural institutions in the country as well as some foreigners who live in Slovenia and Slovenian artists who work abroad.
The total cost of all events covered by Festival Ljubljana 2006 is expected to amount to around SIT 400m (EUR 1.67m). The main supporter, the City of Ljubljana, will contribute SIT 162m (EUR 676,000).
Also highlighted by the organisers was the Vienna State Ballet, which will perform the ballet "Giselle" under the leadership of conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. Together with the city of Vienna, Ljubljana Castle will host a Viennese festival of Mozart's musical film.
Other major productions include the Architecture of Silence, a dance-and-music-based project by Edward Clug; the premiere of "Tesla" by theatre director Tomaz Pandur; the musical "Aida" by the Zagreb Komedija, various performances by the Maribor Opera House, and Mozart's "Requiem" to be played by the Slovenian Philharmonic.
The Ljubljana Opera and Ballet will play the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" as well as the operas "The Rhine Nymphs" and "The Love for Three Oranges". The festival's events can also be found on the website www.ljubljanafestival.si.
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