The first international Danube Fest, which has been launched so as to promote the connection between the Danube River and the Belgrade Fortress, will be held on the renovated premises of Belgrade's Nebojsa Tower, club Barutana and in front of Beton Hala waterfront centre from August 31 to September 11, the Belgrade City Administration released on Thursday.

The festival will open with musical and theatrical performance dubbed 'The last voyage of Rigas Feraios' which will be staged on the boat and in the hall of Nebojsa Tower.

Visitors would have a chance to hear the joint performance of soprano Katarina Jovanovic and flutist Edin Karamazov, who will perform pieces composed by Bach, Handel and Manuel de Falla which were popular in Europe as Rigas Feraios was spending his last days in the Tower.

The festival will be held under the auspices of Belgrade Fortress public enterprise and with the assistance of the Serbian Ministry of Culture, the release states.