Giorgos Koumendakis leads the Greek National Opera into an extraordinary new era
One of the most remarkable operatic success stories of the past decade has been the meteoric rise in quality and status of the Greek National Ope...
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Maria Callas: The Sacred Flame
In her centenary year, Helena Matheopoulos pays tribute to Maria Calla...
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Athens Insider’s Top 5 Culture Picks for May 2023
From literary salons to art installations and street parties, we recom...
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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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