Performing arts

The Greek National Opera (GNO) launches its new era at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in Athens with an ambitious work – Richard Strauss’ one-act opera Elektra [Electra] – as its first production premiering on the 15th of October 2017.

The legend of the murderous barber who killed his customers and gave their meat to his mistress so she could feed it to London's judges inspired the musical thriller "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Flynt Street," with music and lyrics by Steve Sondheim.

Soprano Maria Mitsopoulou and tenor Dimitris Paksoglou will perform popular opera duets in the courtyard of the Sotiros Church at the Capodistrian Orphanage on Aegina on Wednesday, August 23. They will be accompanied by Nasos Grozias on piano.

The legend of the murderous barber who killed his customers and gave their meat to his mistress so she could feed it to London's judges inspired the musical thriller "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Flynt Street," with music and lyrics by Steve Sondheim.

On July 21 theatrical and musical production center-Varna will present the festival "Stage of the Ages" 2017 in Veliko Tarnovo and will premiere the musical "Cats" by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Director of the show is the master of the musical in Bulgaria prof.

A new production by UK-based Israeli choreographer and composer Hofesh Shechter, "Grand Finale" depicts a world in "free fall, where humanity spirals through surreal scenes and emotions to its end point." The 42-year-old choreographer started out as a dancer with the youth company of the Batsheva Dance Company, formed his own company in 2008 and was nominated for a Tony in 2016 for his work in

Forty years after Maria Callas's death, there will be a tribute concert in her honor in the courtyard of the Greek opera star's home in the Messinian village of Neochorio on Saturday, July 8. Titled "Our Maria," the evening of opera is a collaboration between the Athenaeum International Cultural Center and the Municipality of Ichalias, under whose jurisdiction the village falls.

“Yassou” (Hello) wrote Aussie Hollywood superstar Hugh Jack Jackman in a selfie he shared with his 13.3 million Instagram followers. The 49-year-old family oriented actor, is on holidays enjoying the sun and culture of Greece with his wife Deborra-Lee Furness and their two children, Oscar, 17, and Ava, 11.

Athens's annual Rockwave Festival at the TerraVibe park in Malakassa, north of the city, gets off to head-banging start on Friday, June 30, with headline acts Rotting Christ and Nightstalker, two locals outfit that have been shaping the Greek metal scene since the late 1980s. The local act roster is completed by 1000 Mods playing psychedelic "anti-radio" metal, Bazooka and Godspeed.

The number of opera and ballet viewers in Turkey decreased by 19.1 percent in the 2015-16 season, while the overall number of viewers of choirs, operas, orchestral concerts and ballets fell by 4.2 percent.