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Opera singer Plácido Domingo to have concert tonight in Skopje

Skopje, 14 March 2025 (MIA) – Spanish opera singer and conductor Plácido Domingo will give a concert Friday at Skopje’s Boris Trajkovski Arena. He will perform alongside María José Siri, a world-renowned soprano. The concert, performed by the Macedonian Opera…

Macedonian Cultural and Information Center in Sofia mounts Marta Patlidzhankovska exhibit

Skopje, 13 March 2025 (MIA) — An exhibition of large-scale paintings by young Macedonian artist Marta Patlidzhankovska (b. 1999, Skopje) will open at the Macedonian Cultural and Information Center in Sofia. Аccording to organizers in a press release, “Moments” showcases works…

Swedish singer-songwriter Jay-Jay Johanson to give concert at Philharmonic

Skopje, 12 March 2025 (MIA) — Swedish jazz and trip-hop electronica artist Jay-Jay Johanson will give a concert Wednesday evening at the Philharmonic. The concert will feature music from his 14 albums, including his latest single, “Finally,” based on Brahms’s Symphony…

Skopje’s Centar to finance local World Poetry Day music acts

Skopje, 11 March 2025 (MIA) — Skopje’s Municipality of Centar has issued an open call for local artists interested in setting Macedonian poetry to music for an event marking World Poetry Day, March 21. According to a Centar Municipality press release,…

Faculty of Philosophy hosts Philosophical Society of Macedonia celebration

Skopje, 10 March 2025 (MIA) — To celebrate the Day of the Philosophical Society of Macedonia, the state university’s Faculty of Philosphy will host an event that will include presenting the Constantine the Philosopher annual award for the best book of…

Kocho Racin Cultural Center mounts exhibit, hosts poetry reading dedicated to women

Skopje, 7 March 2025 (MIA) — Ahead of International Women’s Day, March 8, a multimedia exhibition titled “Women Throughout World History” will open at the Ko-Ra gallery as part of its “Woman: Symbol and Inspiration” series of events, organizers said….

Anna Kondratenko to lead Philharmonic in ‘Fairytale’ concert

Skopje, 6 March 2025 (MIA) — The Philharmonic’s concertmaster Anna Kondratenko will lead the orchestra in an 8 pm “Fairytale” concert Thursday featuring Georgian composer Giya Kancheli’s “Letters to Friends” (2019) cycle for violin and string orchestra and Russian composer…

Cultural and Information Center mounts Anita Ognjanovska show

Skopje, 5 March 2025 (MIA) — The ninth solo exhibition by Macedonian painter Anita Ognjanovska, “At Peace,” will open at the Cultural and Information Center, showcasing 40 of her latest abstract paintings. In her works, Ognjanovska explores personal emotions and…

Macedonian theater actor Samoil Stojanovski dies

According to Jordan Hadzhi Konstantinov Dzhinot Theater, where Stojanovski had been employed since 2003, the actor had his last appearance on the stage in December. Born on Nov. 3, 1970, in Skopje, Stojanovski played parts in numerous theater plays, film…

Eight novels make 2024 Novel of the Year shortlist

Skopje, 3 March 2025 (MIA) — The latest novels by Igor Angjelkov, Rumena Buzharovska, Vlado Janevski, Vladimir Jankovski, Simona Jovanoska, Kica Kolbe, Kalina Maleska, and Ognena Nikuljski have made the shortlist for the 26th Novel of the Year award, contest organizers…

Ohrid Municipality releases Ohrid Literary Heritage e-books

Ohrid, 26 February 2025 (MIA) — The Municipality of Ohrid has released the digital editions of the books published as part of its Ohrid Literary Heritage project run by Dimitar Pandev, Slave Gjorgjo Dimoski and Mitre Veljanoski. The digital books are…

Exhibit of works by 42 artists to mark Rodoljub Anastasov’s 90th birthday

Skopje, 25 February 2025 (MIA) — An exhibition of works by 42 artists who were Rodoljub Anastasov’s students will open Tuesday evening at the Museum of the City of Skopje to mark the 90th birthday of the important Macedonian painter. Titled…