Each year, series of festivals in Lebanon announce the beginning of the beautiful season: Beiteddine art Festival, Baalbeck festival, Jounieh festival, Zouk festival… that host the cream of the world of spectacle to offer the Lebanese an array of artistic events, where the public is enchanted to select according to his taste.
This year the Beiteddine Art Festival, for its 30th anniversary will begin with a classical night, with international tenor Juan Diego Florez accompanied by Lebanese Soprano Joyce El Khoury and will end on September 4th, with Amal Maher singing Um Kulthum.
July Wednesday 29
World tenor Juan Diego Florez
Guest Soprano Joyce El Khoury
Filarmonica Gioacchino Rossini Orchestra
The leading Bel Canto Tenor, Juan Diego Florez, has sang in major international theatres, such as La Scala of Milan, Covent Garden in London, the Salzburg festival, to name a few. Joyce El Khoury is the Lebanese rising star of world opera.
August Saturday 8
Requiem by Tigran Mansurian
Concert Dedicated to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide with the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra & the State Chamber Choir of Armenia and Hover State Chamber Choir
Conductor: Eduard Topchjan
Soloists: Irina Zakyan and Gurgen Baveyan
August Thursday 20, Friday 21 & Saturday 22
Bar Farouk
Musical comedy directed by Hisham Jaber
بار فاروق – مسرحية غنائية، إخراج هشام جابر
Bar Farouk revives the artistic scene of Beirut from the 30s to the 70s, from popular theatre to cabaret music and dance, through the works of icons such as Chouchou, Sabah, Ferial Karim and the poet Omar El Zeenni.
August Thursday 27
Anna Netrebko- The reigning diva of the 21st century
Guest tenor Yusuf Eyvazov
Filarmonica Gioacchino Rossini Orchestra
One of the most acclaimed classical singers in the world today! Hailed by the Associated Press as “the reigning diva of the early 21st century”, she became the first classical musician to be selected as one of the Time 100 most influential people in the world. Since her triumphant Salzburg Festival debut in 2002, she has gone on to appear with nearly all the world’s great opera companies.
September Friday 4
Amal Maher sings Umm Kulthum
الفنانة أمال ماهر تغني أم كلثوم
Photo Exhibition
Original paintings and manuscripts of Gibran Khalil Gibran
From the Gibran Museum in Becharre in collaboration with Gibran National Committee
