Composers

The Greek National Opera Ballet's first production in the 2019/20 season is "Dance With My Own Shadow," for which the GNOB's artistic director Konstantinos Rigos has created choreographies set to four compositions by Manos Hadjidakis: "The CNS Cycle," "Captain Michalis," "The Accursed Serpent" and "Gioconda's Smile." The ballet features the GNO principal dancers, soloists, demi-soloists and cor

A rare portrait of Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be sold by British auction house Christie's on Nov. 27 in Paris at an estimated price of between 800,000 euros and 1.2 million euros.

German police officers in Offenbach detained three people on suspicion of a bomb attack on behalf of the Islamic State, BNT reported.

The conspirators wanted to kill as many "infidels" as possible, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office said. The main suspect is a 24-year-old German of Macedonian descent. His accomplices are Turks 22 and 21 years old.

Following the success of its tribute to French composer Olivier Messiaen last March, the Goethe Institute has teamed up with the Athens Conservatory for a new tribute, this time to Germany's Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-70). Running from November 13 to 16 at the Conservatory premises, the series of events comprises concerts, lectures, film screenings and discussions.

The Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Miltos Logiadis and with Konstantinos Destounis on piano and Alexej Gerassimez on percussion, presents John Psathas' award-winning "View from Olympus." Widely considered one of the three most important living composers of the Greek diaspora, Psathas was born and lives in New Zealand, where he has achieved a level of international success u

Specially trained Russian canaries will accompany musicians taking the stage in a Turkey classical music concert to perform the works of Haydn, Beethoven, Gade, Piazzolla.

The Greek National Opera's Alternative Stage presents the Greek debut of the British music scene's enfant terrible and Grammy and Laurence Olivier award-winner, Thomas Ades.

The Athens and Thessaloniki concert halls are screening a performance of Jules Massenet's opera comique "Manon," live from New York's Met on Saturday, starting at 7.55 p.m.

The Greek National Theater is ending its run of "Tonight We Improvise," in which director Dimitris Mavrikios masterfully pairs Pirandello's "Leonora, addio!" with the music of Manos Hadjidakis in order to explore the relationship between imagination and reality and the power of the creation over the creator.

The Athens Concert Hall presents the London-based Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and internationally acclaimed pianist/conductor Vassilis Tsabropoulos in great classical works including Beethoven's majestic Coriolan Overture, written in 1807 for Heinrich Joseph von Collin's 1804 tragedy "Coriolan," and two of the finest works for piano and orchestra, Mozart's dramatic Concerto in D minor