Lyrical artists from across the Middle East came together to celebrate music and prose in an event called Hekayah, staged at the New York University in Abu Dhabi on December 5th.

Blessing of the animals and new details revealed for annual Radio City Christmas Spectacular

The second edition of the Bahrain Jazz Festival, held on October 26th in the capital Manama, brought together musicians and jazz fans from across the region to celebrate the 100-year-old American music genre.

The festival continues to grow in stature with another rich crop of famous names and names to watch.

This edition includes: Swarming bees close off a New York street, while unlikely friendships are being made at a Beijing Zoo.

The Karelian State Philharmonic Orchestra performed on-board a boat at an abandoned marble quarry.

Claudio Monterverdi's Baroque masterpiece L'incoronazione di Poppea explores sexual politics and naked ambition, starring soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role and Kate Lindsey as Emperor Nero, at the Salzburg Festival.

A member of one the most celebrated families on the Middle East’s cultural scene, Oussama Rahbani, has composed countless scores and chart-topping songs. His family has played a major role in the development of the region's theatrical scene since the 1950’s.

The Baalbeck International Festival, one of Lebanon’s most popular and acclaimed cultural events, kicked off on July 8th and will run until August 18th.

Over 300 people were injured, five seriously, when a section of wooden platform collapsed at "O Marisquiño" festival of sport and urban culture in Vigo, northwestern Spain.

A dark story full of secrets: "The American composer Samuel Barber won for his first opera "Vanessa" the Pulitzer Prize. The masterpiece from the 1950s is now on stage at the Glyndebourne Festival.

Acclaimed British director Keith Warner finally fulfills a life-long ambition to stage "Vanessa" by Samuel Barber, an opera with which he has a personal connection.

Euronews speaks to some of the star performers at the traditional music festival, marking its 10th anniversary, taking place in the Caucasus Mountains.

The impressive group dazzled audiences at the Gabala Music Festival in Azerbaijan, which has been celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Tomorrowland, an electronic dance music festival that started in Europe thirteen years ago, attracted fans from around the world to Abu Dhabi on Saturday, July 28th.

Three European festivals to visit this year are the Globaltica World Cultures Festival in Poland, the Salzburg Festival in Austria and the Boom festival in Portugal highlighting diverse music and drama from around the world

Electronic music fans were in for a treat when they went to watch Kraftwerk perform at the Jazz Festival in Stuttgart. When they performed their 1978 song " Spacelab" a German astronaut dropped in from space, on a live feed

Mittelfest is all about Central Europe and the Balkans and this year it's hosted by the town of Cividale in the extreme north east of Italy.

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