Daegu International Opera Festival

Daegu International Opera Festival is a festival that is opened in Daegu, South Korea. Daegu International Opera Festival(DIOF) is the representative music festival in Korea that Daegu citizens love and the largest International Opera Festival of Asia. Spectacular growth has been repeated since 2003 and according to the evaluation results of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Government Support Project, it took the top spot in the field of music in 2006 and also received the best grade in 2010 and has been recognized as the best festival in Korea. Until now, presenting various operas from all over the world by taking advantage of domestic and international highlevel cultural infrastructure, it plays a cultural hub for the Asian Performing Art and its international stature is growing significantly by advancing to the European global theaters. In 2009, it has received the attention of the world by launching Korean vocalists and producers into Germany. We advanced into China in 2010 and Germany in 2011, and received honorable mentions from world opera lovers and presses by performing Made-in-Daegu opera at the one of the best opera festivals in the world ‘Turkey Aspendos International Opera & Ballet Festival’in 2012. Also May 2013, DIOF went to Poland to staged and received great interest exhibited by early sold-out seats. DIOF is scheduled to meet audiences on America and Turkey in 2014, Italy and Germany in 2015, Poland again in 2016. Also it plans to continue to expand overseas every year. DIOF takes lead as the center of Asian Opera by showing excellent opera production capacity and will continue to move forward towards globalization of Korean Opera through presenting a vision into Europe.

The festival is held every October or November. It is consist of an opera performance, a story house, a back stage tour, an opera cafe, opera in movie etc.

External links

• Official website (Korean) (English)

See also

• Daegu Opera House