The festival has become a meeting point for various artistic disciplines and also features drama and dance. The towns of Pedrafita do Cebreiro, Triacastela, Samos, Sarria, Paradela, Portomarín, Monterroso, Fonsagrada, Lugo, Foz, Lourenzá, Mondoñedo and Villalba will play host to the different artistic events making up the festival, which is founded on the principles of performance, education and creation.

The Festival also aims to strengthen the relationship between the arts using social and educative activities. Among the latter are programs centred around the Nova Orquestra Galega das Artes, arts in dance, new theatre, instrument making, Gregorian Chant and arts for children. The Festival begins on 1 August with Monteverdi’s Orfeo performed by soloists from the Academia BandArt and Ars Combinatoria directed by Canco López.

On the following day soprano Barbara Hendricks will perform works by Haydn, Berlioz and Beethoven accompanied by the Orquestra BandArt with Gordan Nikolic as director. Victoria’s Vespers with the Voces Blancas “Ciudad de León” and the Monks from Samos Abbey make up the program for 3 and 4 August. On the 13th Manuel Vilas, harp, and Charo Pita, singer and narrator, will present “Medieval Miniatures”, while on 14 August it is the viola player David Quiggle’s turn. Bach also deserves a special mention.

His music forms the focal point of various concerts: the soprano Gemma Bertagnolli will perform several cantatas with Ars Combinatoria conducted by Claudio Astronio on 15 and 16 August; the pianist Alexis Delgado will present the Goldberg Variations on the 18th and “Sublime and Christian Spirit” with Laura F. Alcalde on the 20th, while Gordan Nikolic will perform the solo violin Sonatas and Partitas on the 22nd. A programme of baroque music will be given by Los Conciertos Reales and “Music from the French and German Courts” is the presentation by Capela Compostelana conducted by Francisco Luengo.

The Festival also features various organ recitals by Raúl Prieto, Claudio Astronio and Ruben Pérez and more classical programs such as the Beethoven, Mozart and Tchaikovsky concert by the Nova Orquestra Galega das Artes and the Coro Ars Combinatoria on 6, 7 and 9 August; Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Academia BandArt on the 10th; and the pianist Antonia Ortiz with works by Chopin, Albéniz and Prokofiev on the 21st.