In Lebanon, single-concert festival serenades empty ruins


By AGENCY

Musicians from the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra perform during a concert in the ancient north-eastern city of Baalbek, Lebanon on July 5. Photo: AP

A philharmonic orchestra performed to spectator-free Roman ruins in east Lebanon on Sunday, after a top summer festival downsized to a single concert in a year of economic meltdown and pandemic.

The Baalbek International Festival was instead streamed live on television and social media, in what its director called a message of "hope and resilience" amid ever-worsening daily woes.

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