Claudii

He spoke to me while in Los Angeles, slightly out of breath and greeting the occasional fan that recognizes him. Rufus Wainwright has just completed his second opera, "Hadrian," about the philhellene who ruled the Roman empire from AD 117 to 138.

The Athens Festival has called off a Carmen production due to open in the last week of July. A website announcement says:

The Greek National Opera, due to the current situation, announces the postponement of the production of “Carmen” which was scheduled to be performed for the 26,28,30,31 July at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus.

Theater, this dynamic art form where performers communicate experiences and feelings to a live audience with the use of gestures, speech, music and dance was born in Greece, in the form of the magnificent ancient Drama.