For its bewitching visuals alone, Athenian director Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film Poor Things stands tall as the season’s must-watch. The film’s sets, costumes and color palette commit to making each frame a visual masterpiece. But is Poor Things really the subversive, inventive spin on Frankenstein it claims to be, or, are we merely cha...
Read moreNo words. No music. This theatre production coming to Athens turns instead to otherworldly masks, costumes, choreography and large-scale props to tell its stories. Mummenschanz, a Swiss performance troupe founded in 1972, is bringing its 50-year anniversary production to Athens at the Pallas Theater on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March. A s...
Read moreAthens pays tribute to celebrated bard Constantine Cavafy whose verses inspired a whole generation of Hellenes, both in his native Alexandria and in Greece. Athens welcomes the opening of an archival space dedicated to Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. Cava...
Read moreIt’s taken 25 years of preparation to make it a reality, but the wait has been well worth it. Athens celebrates the life and times of the legendary soprano Maria Callas with not one, but two cultural centres dedicated to the enigmatic icon. The newly inaugurated Maria Callas Museum in Athens on Mitropoleos Street with over 1,300 items ass...
Read moreFrom commemorating Lord Byron’s relationship with Greece, to re-working the first opera using mycelium, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month. “Sonic Odysseys” and “Xenakis and Greece” at EMST A single exhibition could never be enough to celebrate the polyphonic genius of...
Read moreSpread across 5 months, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has always marked the beginning of the summer cultural season. Expect an adrenaline-charged programme with 80 open-air performances, experimental theatre, contemporary dance, classical music, subverted operas and more in 2023’s packed repertoire. Madama Butterfly by Giac...
Read moreWith a notoriously good curatorial eye for spotting talent and a passion for celebrating the work of under-recognized artists, the Hydra School Project held annually since 2000 under the stewardship of Dimitris Antonitsis, showcases the work of up-and-coming Greek and international artists. His roster of artists at the Hydra School Projec...
Read moreFrom top tier international guests to avant garde music, we recommend the best of arts and culture to be found throughout the city this month. Theodoros Currentzis and John Cale at Athens Epidavros Festival As always this world class festival offers Athenians and visitors the opportunity to experience outstanding perf...
Read moreRolex 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...
Read moreOne of the most remarkable operatic success stories of the past decade has been the meteoric rise in quality and status of the Greek National Opera. Since its move to its new theatre at the impressive Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, (SNFCC, which also houses the National Library, both in spectacular, subtly lit buildings by R...
Read moreWhat: Tales of Tools presents a large collection of predominantly Greek but also European traditional wood-carved tools that showcases the untold narrative of wooden handiwork implements used in spinning, sewing, knitting and embroidery. Featuring an ensemble of pastoral wood-carved implements, some of which were produced in Greek prisons at the en...
Read moreThis month the Stavros Niarchos Foundation welcomes two separate art installations that each add a layer of inspiration and engagement to the already sensational experience of encountering its unique architectural spaces. Under the curation of EMST artistic director Katerina Gregos, the public artwork "Return to Sender" by Nairobi-based N...
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