North Macedonia

The Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra was established in 1944, and the Mokranjac music school in Skopje in 1934. The Macedonian National Theatre formed its opera section on 1 January 1948, after musicians including Todor Skalovski and Trajko Prokopiev mounted Cavalleria rusticana on 9 May 1947; the ballet followed in 1949. Kiril Makedonski wrote the opera Goce. The Ohrid Summer Festival began on 4 August 1961 and has belonged to the European Festivals Association since 1994.