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Young Masters | Athens | August 9

The Austrian Young Masters Ensemble is coming to Greece for a special concert at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on Wednesday, August 9. Fifteen members of the ensemble and a chamber orchestra will play classical selections in the free-of-charge concert at the SNFCC's Lighthouse venue.

Photo show brings underwater dance performance to dry land

Hailed as the world's first underwater dance show, "Drops of Breath" was created by French choreographer Sophie Bulbulyan in collaboration with her Greek counterpart and fellow diver Apostolia Papadamaki.

The Sleeping Beauty | Crete | To August 5

The Russian Ballet Theater is wrapping up its tour of Greece on Crete with three shows of its stripped-down production of Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty," based on Marius Petipa's original choreography.

River Party | Kastoria | August 2-6

The largest music and camping festival in Greece is back for the 39th summer in a row, with five full days of concerts and endless hours of fun in a gorgeous woodland area of northern Greece's Kastoria region.

Museums, archaeological sites to hold special events for full moon

A total of 115 museums and archaeological sites across Greece will be open to the public with free admission and special events for the full moon on the evening of August 7. Others will hold events from August 5 to 9. In Attica, the Acropolis will be open until 8 p.m. and Sounio until midnight.

Youth Orchestra | Athens | August 1

The Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra (SEYO) - comprising 190 young musicians aged 10 to 20, as well as 30 music teachers from 27 countries - will be performing at the capital's Roman-era Herod Atticus Theater on Tuesday, August 1, at 9 p.m.

Seven Against Thebes | On Tour | To September 16

The National Theater of Northern Greece is taking its production of the third play in Aeschylus' Oedipus-themed trilogy, "Seven Against Thebes" - where the blind king's curse dooming his sons to divide the kingdom by the sword finally comes to pass. The production is directed by Lithuania's Cezaris Grauzinis and stars Yiannis Stankoglou as Eteocles and Giorgos Papandreou as Polynices.

Roma community reacts to resettlement plan

Greece's Roma reacted on Thursday to an amendment passed through Parliament on Tuesday which foresees the resettlement of thousands of the community's members in 70 new camps without prior consultation.

Two to Tango | Naxos | July 27

Richard Smith and Tico Pierhagen are bringing their jazz-tango fusion project Two to Tango to Greece. Having released their hit album "Tangos" and toured the world from Europe and the USA to Australia, they will be joined by Greek guitarist Vassilis Rakopoulos for a performance at Naxos's Bazeos Tower on Thursday, July 27. The concert starts at 9.30 p.m.

Kalliopi Vetta & Haig Yazdjian | Athens | July 26

Contemporary folk singer Kalliopi Vetta and musician Haig Yazdjian, who blends traditional and modern sounds, teamed up several months back for appearances at different venues around Greece with a show that both highlights their individual careers and bridges their disparate elements.

Film Commission invites photographers to showcase Greece

People often throw ideas around about cheap and easy ways of boosting foreign investment in movie production in Greece. So what incentives do exist that could persuade international producers to shoot films here instead of elsewhere?

Theodore | Tinos | July 25

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Theodore, whose work is mainly characterized by the balancing of stark contrasts between classic and electronic sounds, is performing at the Koumaros Theater on the island of Tinos on Tuesday, July 25, as part of his summer tour of Greece. The show starts at 9.30 p.m. and inaugurates the Animasyros International Animation Festival.

Sofia Exarchou's Park takes Golden Tower Award at Palic

PALIC - Sofia Exarchou's film Park (Greece/Poland) has claimed the Golden Tower Best Film award at the 24th Palic European Film Festival, the jury announced on Friday.

The Palic Tower Best Director Award went to Germany's Helene Hegemann for Axolotl Overkill.

Russian ballet legend returns to Herod Atticus Theater

In the early 1970s, the Bolshoi Ballet came to Athens, with a star dancing the title role of Spartacus at a packed Herod Atticus Theater. Mikhail Lavrovsky was at the apogee of his fame at the time and this particular role, which earned him the Lenin Prize, was to become a career milestone.

Theodore | Athens | July 20

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Theodore, known for music that strikes that difficult balance between classical and electronic sounds, is performing at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Thursday, July 20, as part of his summer tour of Greece.

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