Baalbeck International Festival
Cultural event in Lebanon
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The Baalbeck International Festival is a cultural event in Lebanon. Since 1955, people from around the world have gone to the city of Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon to attend the annual festival. Classical music, dance, theater, opera, and jazz as well as modern world music are performed each July and August in the ancient Roman Acropolis.
The presidents of the festival have been as follows:
Aimée Kettaneh from 1956 to 1968,
Salwa es-Said from 1969 to 1972,
May Arida from 1973 to 2010 and
Nayla de Freige from 2011 to present.
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