Melbourne International Arts Festival

Melbourne International Arts Festival
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 It was to be superseded by a new festival called Rising from 2020 (which was subsequently derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia).