2013

The face of the 22nd edition of the International Music Festival was the Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča, who opened the festival with opera arias and songs by Russian or French classics of the previous century. Other stars were the South Korean piano virtuoso Kun Woo Paik, our successful bass-baritone Adam Plachetka, or the Bulgarian violinist Albena Danailova, the first lady as a concertmaster in the history of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. The congratulatory concert on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Čechomor group or the concert of The Queen Symphony, which was postponed last year, was also among the big events.