pt;margin-left:
0cm;line-height:14.4pt;background:white">May Opera Evenings is a
festival that has occurred annually in Skopje since 1972 and is dedicated to
promoting opera among the general public. Over the years, it has evolved into a
stage on which artists from some 50 countries have performed. Another opera
festival, the Open Youth Theatre Festival, was established in May 1976 by a
group of young opera enthusiasts. More
than 250 theatrical performances have been presented at this festival so far,
most of them being alternative, experimental
theatre groups engaging young
writers and actors. Recently, the festival became a member of the Brussels
Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM). Within the framework of the Open
Youth Theatre, a Macedonian National Centre of the International Theatre
Institute (ITI) was established, and at the 25th ITI World Congress in Munich
in 1993, it became a regular member of the theatre association. The festival is
now an international one representing groups from the former Yugoslavia, the
United States, France, the former Soviet Union, Spain, Japan, Poland, Italy,
the United Kingdom, India and other countries.
