The annual open-air music festival Velvet Season will take place in Adler District of Sochi from September 18 to September 27.

      The event will be held for the 25th time already.

      Winners of international competitions, honored artists of Russia and Kuban, and the Sochi Folk Orchestra 'Russian Souvenir' will take part in it.

      The Swedish royal opera soloists Maria Matyazova Milder and Matthias Milder will be guests of honor at the festival.

      The audience will listen to art songs and arias from Russian operas as well as Russian folk songs.