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Culture of Macedonia


03/08/2019

Macedonia has a rich cultural heritage in art, architecture, poetry, and music. It has many ancient, protected religious sites.


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Poetry, cinema, and music festivals are held annually. Macedonian music styles developed under the strong influence of Byzantine church music.

Macedonia has a significant number of preserved Byzantine fresco paintings, mainly from the period between the 11th and 16th centuries.

There are several thousands square metres of fresco painting preserved, the major part of which is in very good condition and represent masterworks of the Macedonian School of ecclesiastical painting.

The most important cultural events in the country are the Ohrid Summer festival of classical music and drama, the Struga Poetry Evenings which gather poets from more than 50 countries in the world, International Camera Festival in Bitola, Open Youth Theatre and Skopje Jazz Festival in Skopje etc.

The Macedonian Opera opened in 1947 with a performance of Cavalleria rusticana under the direction of Branko Pomorisac. Every year, the May Opera Evenings are held in Skopje for around 20 nights. The first May Opera performance was that of Kiril Makedonski's Tsar Samuil in May 1972.[124]