The Korkyra Baroque Festival is a high profile cultural event founded in 2012 with an aim of promoting local and international musical and cultural heritage. The Festival has built a reputation with both audiences and performers as an outstanding cultural event that combines magical music with beautiful surroundings. The churches, atriums, squares, and hidden courtyards combined with the natural beauty of Korčula and the Pelješac Peninsula provide perfect settings for beautiful music.

This year’s Festival brings eleven thematically different programs with performers from all over Europe. In addition to the town of Korčula, festival programs can also be heard on the island of Badija, in Vela Luka, Pupnat, Lumbarda, Račišće, Orebić and Viganj. The highlight of this year’s festival is the performance of John Blow’s opera/mask: Venus & Adonis. Croatian Baroque Ensemble will join forces with the Spanish vocal ensemble „Cantoria“, soloists and chamber choir. With traditional sword dance Moreška at the very opening of the festival, we take you further through the colorful programs. Baroque music will conquer the island in the late summer, and sounds echo in the churches, atriums, squares and through the windows of the town of Korčula!

We believe that, as always, the diversity and richness of the festival programs will attract a large audience, providing them with the opportunity to experience the inexhaustible treasure of Baroque scores and the magic of sounds brought by this inspiring music and live performances.