Love, lust, depraved jealousy: ‘Tosca’ at the Herodes Atticus this week
WHAT'S ON: This week, the Greek National Opera are performing 'Tosca' among the ancient stones of the Herodes Atticus. Love, lust, depraved jealousy, de...
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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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Giorgos Koumendakis leads the Greek National Opera...
One of the most remarkable operatic success stories of the past decade...
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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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Athens Insider’s Top 5 Culture Picks for May 2023
From literary salons to art installations and street parties, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month. New Contemporary Art Installations at SNFCC This month the Stavros Niarchos Foundation welcomes two separate art installations that each add a layer of inspiration and eng...
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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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Alban Berg’s Lulu
WHAT: The Athens Concert hall kicks off its ‘Stay Home’ campaign with Alban Berg's Lulu. Lulu, an opera in three acts by Alban Berg, was adapted from Frank Wedekind's two Lulu plays, Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora tells the story of a mysterious young woman known as Lulu, who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna t...
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