Melbourne International Arts Festival | |
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Genre | Major arts, theatre, music and cultural festival |
Frequency | Annually |
Location(s) | Melbourne, Australia |
Years active | 38 |
Inaugurated | 1986 |
Participants | 1,000 artists (2013)[1] |
Attendance | 416,547 (2013)[1] |
Melbourne International Arts Festival, formerly Spoleto Festival Melbourne – Festival of the Three Worlds, then Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, becoming commonly known as Melbourne Festival, was a major international arts festival held in Melbourne, Australia, from 1986 to 2019. It was to be superseded by a new festival called Rising from 2020 (which was subsequently derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia).