World-known opera star Anna Netrebko will perform at Beiteddine Art Festival in Lebanon, an event scheduled to take place between 27 July and 5 September, Ahram Online reports.

The festival marks 30th anniversary this year. Tenor Juan Diego Florez, Lebanese composer, singer and songwriter Marcel Khalife, singers Kadim Al-Sahir and Reham Abdelhakim among others will also take to the stage.

The festival will open on 27 July with the tenor Juan Diego Florez and guest soprano Joyce El-Khoury, accompanied by the Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini Orchestra, under the baton of Christopher Franklin.

Internationally acclaimed Lebanese musician Marcel Khalifé and Al-Mayadine Ensemble will perform on 5 August.

Classical music works will be performed on 8 August by the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Chamber Choir of Armenia and the Hover Chamber conducted by Eduard Topchjan.

Soprano Anna Netrebko with guest tenor Yusif Eyvazov will perform towards the festival's end, on 27 August.

A number of other well known musicians will also participate in the festival, including Rebecca Ferguson who will perform the hits of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday, and David Gray, one of the UK’s leading rock artists.

Launched in 1985, the Beiteddine Art Festival became one of the most famous cultural festivals in the Middle East. The festival was called "an act of faith in Lebanon’s cultural role and power of creativity, a call for normality amidst the chaos and madness of war.”