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Summer Festivals in Slovenia
In summer 2013 various cities in Slovenia feature numerous festivals of classical, ethno, jazz and popular music, offering a variety of genres as well as more focused music and cultural events. While the Ljubljana Festival will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of composers Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi with performances by world-renowned classical musicians, such as Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly with the Gewandhaus Orchestra from Leipzig, the Brežice and Radovljica Festivals will focus on medieval and baroque chamber music. Peter Brötzmann, the legendary German wind musician was the guest of the 54th Ljubljana Jazz Festival.
