During the Lent festival, for 16 days and 16 nights, Maribor turns into a happy, lively, colorful, sociable and relaxed city, which pulses in the spirit of music, dance, street theater, comedy and creative experiences.
Culture
In summer, the best stage is the street. The international festival of street theater Ana Desetnica is going to ten Slovenian cities this summer.
As part of this year's 20th international tour, the California Youth Symphony is coming to the Ljubljana Opera.
The sexy exhibition Funland: Pleasures & Perils of the Erotic Fairground at the Museum of Sex in New York is an ideal choice for all mischievous young and young at heart.
Óbuda Island or Freedom Island, which hosts the Sziget Festival, will once again be the wild heart of Budapest, dictating the pulse of the city and flowing through its veins (read streets) between August 11 and 18 the sounds of names such as Queens of the Stone Age, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Calvin Harris, OutKast, The Prodigy, Deadmau5, Blink 182, Placebo, Skrillex, Cee Lo Gren, Manic Street Preachers and Lily Allen.
September is the time for EXPONTO. This year it continues with the theme "New Bridges", and in the future they want to open new geographical, aesthetic, social and political fields.
As part of the 62nd Ljubljana Festival, the well-known work Flowers in the Autumn will be performed on the stage of the Ljubljana Križanka for five consecutive evenings from September 17 to 21 - but in a slightly different way. The creators promise us an original Slovenian musical, and the role of Meta will be played by two Slovenian beauties: actress Maja Martina Merljak and singer Nina Pušlar.
The International Puppet Festival, Puppets 2014 brings a selection of domestic and foreign puppet productions for the twelfth time.
Autumn in Vienna will be artistic. In the coming months, many new exhibitions of works by world-renowned artists will be on display, many of which have never been exhibited in Austria. From Velazquez, Monet, Miro, Giacometti to Rainer. Nach Wien!
On the third of October, the opera The Magic Flute, undoubtedly one of Mozart's greatest masterpieces, will be premiered on the stage of the Slovenian National Theater in Maribor. The renowned singer Marcos Fink will perform in one of the main roles, and the master of extravagance Alan Hranitelj will take care of the costume design.
On September 24, Cankarjev dom will be the venue for a top musical event. The magnificent Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra from Moscow will play in the Gallus Hall under the baton of the charismatic conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev.
Tin Vodopivec is certainly one of the main names in Slovenian stand-up comedy, which is also successfully establishing itself abroad. On October 6, with the play DESERT, he will perform for the first time in the Štih hall of Cankarjev dom and will provide us with an evening full of laughter. Because you know: just like there is always room for dessert in the stomach, there is always time for laughter.