The Athens Singers perform Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor
What to expect: The Athens Singers perform Cherubini's Requiem in C Minor at the War Museum Amphitheatre, conveniently located near the Evangelismos Metro ...
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The Maria Callas Museum draws the Curious into the...
It’s taken 25 years of preparation to make it a reality, but the wait ...
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Plan Ahead for the Athens and Epidaurus Festival
Spread across 5 months, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has always m...
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Get ready for an outpouring of creative energy at The Rolex Art Festival this Week
Rolex chose Athens to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. The main event and the pre-festival from May 22 to 28, 2023 in multiple venues across Athens feature a dazzling array of works by 60 Rolex protégés and mentors – many of them living legends in the arts. Get ready for a week of perfo...
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Maria Callas: The Sacred Flame
In her centenary year, Helena Matheopoulos pays tribute to Maria Callas whose operatic and personal style as the ultimate diva of her generation, coupled with almost endless drama and intrigue in her personal life, only contributed to her appeal as opera’s most iconic phenomenon. Forty five years after her death, Greek-born Ma...
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Greek Opera wows with a bold and beautiful season of innovation
Alexandros Efklidis has run the GNO’s ground-breaking alterative stage at the glittering new Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre since it opened in 2017, a gift from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to the Greek state. In this time, the opera house has emerged from the side-lines of musical theatre to become one the world’s most exciting and ...
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Meet Dino Rubino, the distinctive talent helming the Zenith Music Festival this year
Dino Rubino, the Sicilian jazz pianist known for his elegant, bluesy interpretation on the contemporary scene, promises to electrify the Athenian public at the Zenith Music Festival with his Dino Rubino New Trio. Their premiere performance at the august Gennadius Library will have jazz standards alongside compositions from the trio’s late...
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The Philip Glass Ensemble- Music in Eight Parts & Other Works
What: The Philip Glass Ensemble, the group formed by the legendary American composer in 1968 as a laboratory for his experimental music, lands at the Stavros Niarchos Hall for a one-off pre-Christmas concert that will take us into the great composer’s unique musical universe. In the SNFCC program, Music in Eight Parts will be joined by other la...
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Live Musical Soirees at the GB Winter Garden
After being starved of live entertainment, you'd like to listen to live music in a setting that is safe, elegant and uplifting? We've got you covered. The iconic Winter Garden at the Hotel Grande Bretagne comes alive to the sounds of jazz, opera and harp at live musical evenings, adding a touch of refinement to your post-work cocktails. W...
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Sting celebrates his 70th birthday under the Acropolis
What: Two sold-out performances with the English superstar and 17-time Grammy Award winner performing his most iconic songs. Proving why he has remained such an enduring musical artist for more than four decades, Sting comes back to Athens and the Herod Atticus after his last concert here in 2018. Expect songs from his latest album “Sting: My Songs...
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Bouzouki: The sound of Greek music
The tempo that builds in the bouzouki gives a real sense of the underlying raw emotion, of ‘rebetiko’s’ illegal past and its gentrification by the greats of modern Greek music, Vassilis Tsitsanis, Manos Hadzidakis and Mikis Theodorakis.The bouzouki is Greece’s siren call. To hear but a few bars is to instantly conjure raki-fueled nights a...
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“Unity”, a musical spark of solidarity born from the ashes of the Moria camp
In October 2020, 160 Greek musicians and groups joined forces to produce Unity Vol. 1, a unique album to demonstrate their solidarity and support for the refugees displaced by the fire in the Moria camp on Lesbos. The totality of the funds were donated to the NGO Attika Human Support. Joan Bienaimé writes about this touching artistic in...
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