Music

Up-and-coming violin soloist Danae Papamattheou-Matschke teams up with her father, the internationally renowned pianist Uwe Matschke, and cellist Kerstin Feltz to take on two towering works of the 19th and 20th century chamber music repertoire: Brahms' Piano Trio No 1 and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No 2. The show at the Athens Concert Hall (megaron.gr) starts at 8.30 p.m.

One of the most staged operas in the world, 'Carmen' will be performed by the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet (IDOB) on Jan 19 at the Atatürk Cultural Center - Türk Telekom Opera Hall. Composed by the French composer Georges Bizet, the opera is staged by Italian director Vincenzo Grisostomi Travaglini.

The Greek National Opera starts the new year with a bang, presenting its ambitious new production of Giuseppe Verdi's swan song, the comic opera "Falstaff." Inspired by Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor," it was first presented at La Scala in Milan in February 1893 and was a raging success despite some skepticism about whether the 80-year-old composer could still pull off such a coup.

The second concert of the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra (IDSO) Denizbank Concert will take place tonight at Atatürk Cultural Center. South Korean violinist Soyoung Yoon will perform works by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, as well as the violin concerto of Jean Sibelius, the founder of Finnish symphonic music at the concert, to be conducted by Rengim Gökmen.

Laser beams illuminate a darkened restaurant turned dance hall in Cairo as revelers move to thumping beats from female DJs - part of a generation of women shaking up Egypt's underground electronic music scene.

"All my life, I've seen men behind the decks," said party-goer Menna Shanab, 26, as psychedelic visuals reflected off the waters at the Nile-side venue.

A grand piano that laid abandoned in a corner of a studio at Radio Slovenija until just over a decade ago is the main protagonist in a film that premiered at Ljubljana's Kinodvor on 4 January, 79 years after the piano's erstwhile owners were executed by the Partisan secret police.

An investigation has been launched in the southwestern port town of Patra after a 35-year-old Roma man was asked at a local car dealership to kneel down to sing Christmas carols on New Year's Eve and was set on fire "for fun."

Genes and a dash of humility are the secrets of longevity for one of France's biggest music stars, Jean-Michel Jarre, the septuagenarian electronic music pioneer who's sold over 80 million records and is still going strong.

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Masters and young stars of classical music will meet with art lovers at the Opus Music Festival to be held in Bodrum Castle on Sept 9 and10. Young artists İlyun Bürkev, Ayşe Cemre Ağırgöl and Naz İrem Türkmen will take the stage at the festival on Sept 9. The event will host the 120-year-old German State Opera Chamber Orchestra on Sept 10. Under the baton of conductor Gürer Aykal.