Details this minifestival held within the Salzburg Festival that included music by modern composer Alexander Mullenbach, his "An die Koenigin der Nacht."
Festival in the city associated with Mozart is described, in particular the one for the year in which Olivier Messiaen's opera "Saint Frangois d'Assise" was premiered.
Dedicated to performers from youth orchestras, bands, dance, and theater groups around the globe, this fest includes a program for the disabled.
Biennial festival sponsored by the Ensemble Intercontemporain brings students from across Europe to Paris to perform modern masterpieces.
Grachtenfestival puts on five days of concerts each year, culminating in the Prinsengracht concert on a floating stage near the Hotel Pulitzer.
Contemporary classical music festival in Brussels, principally at the Palais des Beaux Arts and Theatre de la Monnaie. Get contact details.
See a photo of the Odeion of Herodes Atticus, the amphitheater at the foot of the Acropolis where this festival is held. Scroll for details.
Read about this Catalan festival of theater, dance, and music, popularly known as the "Grec Festival" and symbolized by a long-eared faun.
Musique en Cote Basque festival performs at the churches of St-Jean-de-Luz, Ciboure, and Ascain, and the cathedral cloisters of Bayonne.
Provides the first week's programming of the Proms, including premieres by Colin Matthews, Sally Beamish, Christopher Rouse, and James MacMillan.
Yearly summer festival of music held in London and founded in 1895 by Sir Henry Wood. Find a sampling of the lineup for the coming season.
Read the history of the self-described world's greatest music festival and view the concert calendar. Ticket ordering instructions are included.
French village church hosts this week-long series of concerts each August that focuses on a particular string instrument. Find a contact number.
Music, dance, and theater with a Norwegian spin are presented at this festival each spring. Follow a link to the festival's site.
French festival in the Franche Comte features a conductors' competition. Connect to the French Tourism site or get contact information.
Read how this festival got started and satisfied starving cultural mavens while the Royal Opera House was closed for repairs.
Austrian festival provides open-air opera and theater at the lakeside Seebuehne as well as productions at the Festspielhaus. See contact details.
Venues for this festival of classical music, pop, and jazz include the Grand Place, Palais des Beaux-Arts, and Hotel de Ville, and Parc Leopold.
Compiles details on a number of festivals, including the Budapest Spring Festival and the Budapest Fair.
Festival culminates in a celebration of St. Stephen's Day, which commemorates the coronation of Hungary's first king in the 11th century.
Carinthia Music Festival maintains an accent on contemporary music. In German and English.
Each October sees this Mexican arts festival, held in Guanajuato, at the Teatro Juarez and other venues, that presents dance, music, and theater.
UNESCO world-heritage city and birthplace of Egon Schiele. Its yearly festival takes in place in such venues as the Castle's Masked Hall.
Festival at Notre Dame de Chartres highlights sacred music performed in the basilica. Connect to the festival's site, in French and English.
Yearly festival takes place in venues, some not normally open to the general public, throughout the city. Provides a sample of upcoming events.
Fest takes place each April in France's Val d'Isere, a ski resort, with concerts at the St-Bernard de Menthon Church and Congress Centre.
Summer-long series of open-air concerts at Casina delle Civette in Villa Torlonia, in Rome. Includes a contact telephone number.
Week-long Spanish festival of classical, electric, and flamenco guitar playing. Learn a little about the city of Cordova or get contact details.
Irish fest that starts on the second Monday of every November includes readings and film screenings as well as jazz and classical concerts.
Organized by the German city's Centre for Contemporary Music, this fall festival features experimental music, electronica, jazz, and multimedia.
Yearly fest in the eastern part of Germany offers dance and film as well as opera, classical and contemporary, world music, and jazz.
Each February, Dresden hosts this festival of musical and light opera. Connect to the Schauspielhaus.
Music and drama festival is held in the city of Dubrovnik. View the photo gallery or the program.
Dusseldorf Autumn Festival features contemporary music and performance. Learn what's on at the upcoming festival by calling the contact number.
Yearly series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions concentrates on the small harp, or clarsach, used throughout Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
Presents some of the highlights of the upcoming installment of the festival held in Scotland every August. Scroll down to find contact details.
France's equivalent of the Edinburgh Festival hosts musical, theatrical, and dance performers and groups from Europe and around the globe.
String quartet festival celebrated each autumn in Provencal villages, such as Callian and Seillans, in the foothills of the Alps. Make contact.
Read about this Languedoc-Roussillon fest that includes orchestral performances, opera. recitals by young soloists, and jazz. Make contact.
Music festival centered around Peralada Castle in northeastern Spain. English version available.
Supplies details on the Granada Festival of Music and Dance in southern Spain. English version available.
Details on this festival of the arts in northern Spain, presented in both Spanish and English.
Learn about this International piano festival. In French, with English translation available.
Puy-de-Dome region in France's Massif Central invites visitors to this arts festival held each autumn. Scroll down for contact details.
Three Parisian churches host this fest of sacred music, from early and baroque to Russian orthodox, spirituals, and gospel songs. Make contact.
Inspired by a French TV program, this festival is devoted to opera and song. Events take place at Chantier Naval-Opera - a boatyard by day.
Learn about this series of summer concerts played in Romanesque abbeys and churches in this region of France. Includes contact details.
French fest presented in Dax each fall sponsors performances of religious music by orchestras, choirs, soloists, and organists.
Yearly fall fest includes concerts, conferences, and exhibitions in and around the Benedictine abbey of Ambronay in Ile-de-France.
Classical music festival held each summer in Brussels celebrate Walloon culture and historical monuments, including the Theatre de la Monnaie.
Describes the Bergen International Festival, a wide-ranging music festival held in Bergen on the west coast of Norway. English version available.
Ireland hosts two weeks of dancing, street spectacle, art shows, literary and children's events, a film festival, and concerts. Make contact.
Yearly Irish festival of medieval, Renaissance, and baroque music offers its main concerts at the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas.
Festival celebrates literature, music, art and performance, with important concerts of classical music and a major art exhibition.
Autumn touring arm of the Glyndebourne summer festival presents its program and itinerary for the coming season. Scroll down for contact details.
Once an annual competition for local Andalusian flamenco musicians and dancers, this festival now hosts performers from across Europe.
Swiss ski resort hosts this autumn festival each year. Connect to related sites or find contact details.
Hungarian town of Gyula hosts a summer festival of music, theater, and dance, using the only brick castle that survives in Europe.
Abbey ruins in the Cotswolds of England is the venue for this festival organized by Bernard Partridge, a veteran of the Aldeburgh Festival.
Badenese State Theatre of Karlsruhe, in this yearly festival held each February, presents work by and about the German composer.
Fest held each August in Finland features classical music, film, dance, theater, a Children's Festival, and youthful pastimes in the Huvila Tent.
Ten days of early music, including concerts of choral, devotional, and chamber music, are performed each August in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Festival on the Greek island of Ios held in honor of the poet said to be buried there offers folk dancing and foot races as well as music.
Midsummer concert series in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, features chamber ensembles performing in churches, squares, and colonial houses.
Prague festival held each fall has in the past included such ensembles as the National Experimental Chinese Orchestra. Link to related events.
Dutch festival is sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary Music and performed by the Noord-Hollands Philharmonic Orchestra and other ensembles.
Provides concerts of blues and rock as well as classical, country, jazz, and flamenco guitar, as well as classes and workshops. Make contact.
Festival in Eisenstadt devoted to the music of Franz Joseph Haydn is centered in the Haydn Hall, at the Esterhazy Palace. Get contact details.
Festival events take place in St. Irene's Church, the Hagia Eirene Museum, and the Ataturk Cultural Centre. Scroll down for contact details.
Late-spring festival of opera, dance, and classical as well as contemporary, jazz, and world music is held each year in Jerusalem.
Festival in the adopted city of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, on Lake Tuusulanjarvi, offers a yearly festival devoted to the master's work.
Ireland's medieval capital plays host to this August festival performed at St Canice Cathedral and Kilkenny Castle. Link to the festival's site.
Series of 15 concerts performed in September in the Haute Marne region of Champagne-Ardennes, including Joinville, Langres, and Saint Dizier.
Auvergne town hosts a festival of chamber music from the baroque period and devotional and religious music. Link to the festival site, in French.
Learn about this festival of French art, performance, film, and music mounted each year in Hong Kong. Scroll down for contact details.
Festival appealing to children, families, and nonspecialists includes workshops, a family day, and a junior performance competition.
Festival founded in 1860 in the Provencal city of Orange and performed in the city's Roman amphitheater presents its upcoming season.
French festival in Lyon offers concerts plus certain rehearsals and master classes that are open to the public. Find contact details.
Welsh festival of concerts, poetry readings, and art exhibits takes place each October at a large seaside resort near Snowdonia National Park.
Festival, founded in 1987, determines the winner of four international choral competitions, for Mixed, Female, Male and Chamber Choirs.
Church of St. George's, in Hanover Square, hosts this yearly spring festival of the music of Handel and his contemporaries. Get contact details.
Shropshire festival of opera, popular classics, and dramatic events centers each season on a production of one of Shakespeare's plays.
Learn about this annual British festival performed in Westminster Abbey, St. James's Church, Piccadilly, and St. John's, Smith Square.
Dresden festival celebrates music for the family of lute instruments, from European pavanes and galliards to the gnawa of Morocco.
Late autumn choral festival and contest held each year on the Mediterranean island. Includes links to the Malta Tourism Authority.
Find concerts, theatrical events, and examples of creative anachronism performed at the walled city of Carcassone, France, each August.
Offers chamber music in churches and symphonic performances in a festival tent in the Swiss Alpine resort of Gstaad. Read upcoming highlights.
Classical music festival is held in the spa town of Merano in northern Italy. Order tickets by mail.
Yearly fest offers performances of opera, operetta, and orchestral and chamber work by students of Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest.
Learn about this festival held each year in Switzerland. Inlcudes a link to buy tickets.
Czech festival of young musicians at the Villa Betramka, in Simchov. Find venue and contact details further down the page.
Festival mounted at the Gasteig promotes new music from emerging composers. Scroll down for contact details and links to related sites.
Series of concerts of classical and traditional Spanish music, performed in halls, churches, and chateaux in France's Normandy region.
English musical group performs a week of arrangements of the Mass and Gradualia each summer as part of the services at Tewkesbury Abbey.
Ski resort of Courchevel 1850 in Trois Vallees, France, presents a late-winter festival of classical music each year at the Jardin Alpin.
Chamber music festival held at Emperi castle in the Cote d'Azur region of France focuses on lesser-known composers, such as Florent Schmitt.
Concerts are performed in the gardens of Noirlac Abbey, between Bourges and Clermont-Ferrand, France, each weekend during this August festival.
Offers a comprehensive list of Norwegian arts festivals. In English and Norwegian.
Series of outdoor concerts held in July on the hill of Suquet, which dominates the French Riviera city of Cannes from the west. Get contacts.
Festival Classique au Vert in Paris' Parc Floral takes place each weekend in August. Read a lineup or link to the festival's site, in French.
Each summer, this French festival gathers approximately 800 young musicians and conductors worldwide for concerts and workshops in Limousin.
Provides details on this annual Utrecht festival of early music. An English version is available.
Easter festival of music and performance in Vienna includes the Easter Night Concert at St. Stephen's Cathedral. Contact details are included.
Autumn musical festival in Ostrobothnia, Finland, centered in concerts of classical music, also showcases jazz, folk music, and children's music.
French chamber music festival performs in the Abbaye Saint-Michel de Cuxa and other churches in and near Prades. Get contact details.
Harbor of Pafos on the west coast of Cyprus plays host to these musical festivities. Lists sample concerts and provides contact details.
Hosted at a small fishing town on the southwestern shore of Crete, not far from the longest gorge in Europe, the Farangi Samarias. Make contact.
Read about this round of musical events, established in 1984, that concentrates on music from the time Chopin lived in the City of Light.
Month-long fest kicks off each Bastille Day using all Paris as its venue, including the Arenes de Lutece, Tuilleries, and Jardins des Luxembourg.
Learn about this celebration of music and theater, crafts and poetry and food, held each summer at Cabbage Hall, Tweed Green, Peebles, England.
Medieval monastery, called Les Jacobins, in Toulouse hosts this festival of piano music each year, featuring the likes of Murray Perahia.
Features the program for the annual event. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Chamber music concerts are presented at Queen's Hall every morning except Sundays throughout the Edinburgh Festival. Check out sample performers.
Read a sample of the ensembles visiting the Amsterdam Concertgebouw to perform in this festival dedicated to attracting younger audiences.
Explore this summer season of concerts held in a Cistercian abbey outside Paris and sponsored by the Royaumont Foundation. With contact details.
Castletownshend in the Republic of Ireland hosts this festival of solo and group performances held each Thursday for a summer month.
French music festival takes place in various venues, from the Basilica of St. Denis to the Stade de France. See contact details.
Summer performances each year of two classic operas are given in the French region of the Dordogne by the company Opera-eclate. Get details.
Adjunct to the summer festival, this smaller event for period instruments takes place over Whitsun weekend. Get contact details.
Classic festival in the city associated with Mozart centers on his work, with performances by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and others.
Sandstone and Music festival of chamber, brass, and orchestral concerts in the countryside near Dresden runs each year from spring into the fall.
Olavinlinna Castle, in Finland, provides the theater for this festival of the nation's opera companies. Scroll down for contact details.
Festival covering venues in eastern Germany and the Czech Republic showcases the Thomanerchor Leipzig and the Prague Symphony Orchestra.
Festival in Torino Music Festival offers a database of all concerts since 1978.
Chamber music event in Italy is designed around a theme. View an events calendar or listen to Winamp files from festival archives.
Portuguese festival of chamber music and ballet hosts such ensembles as the Lisbon Gulbenkian Orchestra and Philharmonic de Chambre de Paris.
Festival in St. Moritz presents concerts in venues at Corvatsch and Corviglia and the Grand Hotels of Sils and Pontresina.
Provides an English December's wintry dark with candlelit concerts at Christ Church Spitalfield, of Greater London. Get the contact phone number.
Held each year around midsummer in the Orkney Islands, off the north coast of Scotland, the festival attracts artists of international stature.
Festival includes exhibitions and lectures as well as concerts in many of Prague's churches and synagogues. Scroll down for contact details.
Concerts, either free or inexpensive, of classical, flamenco, and jazz music are offered each year, compliments of the Spanish government.
Malaga, Spain, has the Festival de Verano, of music, dance, and theater, in July, as well as a feria in August. Teatro Cervantes hosts concerts.
Long-established music festival, held annually in either Worcester, Hereford or Gloucester.
Yearly summer festival held in Viitasaari, Finland, concentrates on contemporary music. Find contact details.
Oslo fest of major Norwegian musical institutions, including educational events, brings together national artists, composers, and performers.
Presents European and international theater, music, and dance at the Musikverein and Vienna Konzerthaus as well as throughout the city.
Contains a program and ticket prices for the series of classical concerts in Austria, in which the performers dress in period costumes and wigs.
Concert series performed at Wallington House, in Morpeth, UK, a "Palladian pile" rife with baroque ornaments and nestled in an elaborate park.
Series of July concerts at St David's Hall is part of the Cardiff Festival. Read a sample lineup of performers and concerts.
Irish festival dedicated to neglected works in the operatic repertoire presents each year three new productions at the Theatre Royal.
Irish fest in the town of Boyle, at the base of the Curlew Hills, presents classical, traditional Irish music, and jazz. Make contact.
Davos International Music Festival promotes young talent, with an emphasis on 20th-century and contemporary music. See contact details.
Read about this festival of opera, dance, and classical music, featuring outstanding artists working in Switzerland. Lists venues and contacts.