Baalbeck International Festival

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The Baalbeck International Festival or Le Festival International de Baalbeck is the oldest and most known cultural event in the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean. Since 1955, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have flocked to the city of Baalbeck in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon to attend the annual festival, which has become a major world cultural event. Classical music, dance, theatre, opera, and jazz as well as modern world music from all continents are performed each July and August in the ancient Roman Acropolis, one of the largest Roman temples ever built and among the best preserved all over the world.[1]

Ballet

  • Australian Ballet
  • The Royal Ballet
  • Ballet de l'Opéra de Stuttgart

Dance

  • Paul Taylor Dance Company
  • The Dance Theatre of Alwin Nikolais
  • The Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theatre

Orchestra

  • Chambre Orchestra of Moscow
  • Chambre Orchestra of Stuttgart
  • English Chambre Orchestra
  • Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra
  • The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Orchestre Santa Cecilia-Acedémie de Rome
  • The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Singers

  • Miles Davis
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Fairuz
  • Sabah
  • Nina Simone
  • Sting
  • Um Kalthoum
  • Warda

Theatre

  • La Comédie Français
  • Théâtre National de Belgique
  • Fairuz, the Rahbani Brothers and the Lebanese popular troupe

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