Featured event
Prelude: Markovska Plays Schubert
Off-season 'Prelude' series · piano recital
- Date
- Saturday, October 24, 2026, 19:30
- Venue
- Grigor Prlichev Cultural Centre
- Tickets
- from 600 MKD Tickets available
67. edition — “Horizons”
Ohrid SummerOhrid Summer Festival
Forty summer evenings of music, theatre and dance in an ancient theatre, an eleventh-century cathedral and the streets of a town on one of Europe’s oldest lakes.
Since 4 August 1961
About the festival
The first concert was a single voice and a piano in St. Sophia. Sixty-six summers later, the whole town is the stage.
Ohrid Summer is the largest festival of the performing arts in North Macedonia and a member of the European Festivals Association since 1994.
Read about the festival1961year of the first concert
67editions
6stages
22upcoming events
46events last summer
24countries represented
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Upcoming events
Prelude: Songs of Ohrid
Byzantine and Old Church Slavonic chant
Prelude: The Festival on Film
Archival screenings and talk
New Year's Concert
Ohrid Festival Orchestra · Viennese waltzes and operetta
Opening Gala: Beethoven's Ninth
67th Ohrid Summer · Antique Theatre
Elena Markovska: Chopin and Skalovski
Piano recital at St. Sophia
Night Vigil: Byzantion
Early music · Byzantine chant
The people on stage
Featured artists
From the festival office
Latest news
Tickets on sale — La traviata already sold out
Huge demand for the opera evening sold out La traviata within the first days of sales.
Read moreProgramme of the 67th Ohrid Summer announced
Seventeen evenings, six stages and ten countries: the festival has presented its programme for summer 2027.
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Summers we remember
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