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The festival through history
The roots of the Ljubljana summer festival stretch back to 1952, when the Tourist Society of Ljubljana organised the first Tourist Week, followed by the first Ljubljana Festival in 1953. Since then, the festival has showcased a number of cultural, economic, folklore, tourism and sports events.

Ljubljana continued to host Summer Festivals from 1953 on, animating stages in the capital with performances by domestic and foreign musicians, actors, dancers and visual artists, including orchestras, such as the Vienna Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, La Scala Philarmonic, The State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from London, La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre of Boris Eifman; conductors, such as Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Zubin Mehta, Ennio Morricone, Riccardo Muti, Charles Dutoit, Fabio Luisi, Mstislav Rostropovich, En Shao; soloists such as Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Riccardo Zanellato, Yuri Bashmet, Denis Macujev, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Julian Rachlin, Vadim Repin, Alexander Rudin, Mojca Zlobko, Dubravka Tomšič; vocal soloists including Paata Burchuladze, Joseph Calleja, Jose Carreras, Marjana Fink, Marjana Lipovšek, Ramón Vargas and more.

Through the years we have seen the Festival evolve, grow and come to play an important, influential role in the cultural life of the country. In the past few years alone, the Summer Festival has staged between 70 and 80 events of different genres, attracting some 80,000 domestic and foreign visitors. This illustrates just how successful and important the festival has become and encourages us, the organisers, to continue producing festivals of the very highest quality in the years to come.

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Riccardo Muti, dirigent / conductorMladinski orkester Luigi Cherubini / Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra---Več / More: https://ljubljanafestival.si/en/event/l...

Riccardo Muti & Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini - 19. July 2022, Ljubljana

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Začetki Ljubljanskega poletnega festivala segajo v leto 1952, ko je Turistično društvo Ljubljana priredilo prvi Turistični teden, v letu 1953 pa je bil organiziran prvi Ljubljanski festival. Na njem se je zvrstilo mnogo kulturnih, gospodarskih, folklornih, turističnih in športnih prireditev.

Po letu 1953 je bila Ljubljana vsako leto prizorišče Poletnih festivalov, vsako poletje so odri v prestolnici oživeli s stvaritvami domačih in tujih glasbenikov, igralcev, plesalcev, likovnikov. Med najslavnejšimi gosti Festivala Ljubljana lahko omenimo Dubravko Tomšič, Marjano Lipovšek, Anno Netrebko, Jonasa Kaufmanna, Katio Ricciarelli, Grace Bumbry, lorda Jehudija Menuhina, Mstislava Rostropoviča, Joséja Carrerasa, Slida Hamptona, Pierra Amoyala, Jurija Bašmeta, Mišo Majskega, Shloma Mintza, Krzysztofa Pendereckega, Riccarda Mutija, Charlesa Dutoita, Fabia Luisija, Gidona Kremerja, Valerija Gergijeva, Vladimirja Aškenazija, Juliana Rachlina, Angelo Gheorghiu, Macea Parkerja, Celie Cruz, Gilberta Gila, Wyntona Marsalisa, Aleksandra Vedernikova, Marcela Alvareza, Bernardo Fink in Mojco Zlobko Vajgl, Vadima Repina, Zubina Mehto, sir Andrewa Davisa, Midori, Ennia Morrconeja, Manhattan Transfer ter številne druge. Gostili smo največje svetovne simfonične orkestre, med njimi tudi izvrstne Newyorško in Izraelsko filharmonijo, Kraljevi filharmonični orkester iz Londona, Orkester Marijinskega gledališča iz St. Peterburga ter nekatere operne hiše, med katerimi najbolj izstopata slavni Akademski Bolšoj teater iz Moskve in milanska Scala.

Festival se je z leti razvijal, spreminjal, rasel in pomembno vplival na kulturno življenje v Sloveniji. V zadnjih letih je na poletnem festivalu predstavljenih med 70 in 80 dogodkov različnih zvrsti, ki si jih ogleda približno 80.000 domačih in tujih obiskovalcev. To kaže, da gre za velik in izjemno pomemben festival, organizatorji pa si bomo tudi v prihodnje prizadevali pripravljati festivale na najvišji umetniški ravni.

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