Tassos

The Greek National Opera's online service kicks off the season on February 14 with its grand "Don Giovanni," a co-production with the Göteborg Opera and the Royal Danish Opera.

For its Christmas group exhibition titled "Magical Strokes," the Skoufa Gallery presents selected pieces by 35 artists exploring childhood memories, Greek folk traditions and other nostalgic themes evoked by the holiday season. The impressive roster of participating artists comprises Jeff Koons, Patrick Rubinstein, Nikos Angelidis, Stathis Alexopoulos, Eva Anagnostou, Kalliopi Asargiotaki, Yior

For months, Tassos was banned from speaking about his job in the southern Athens suburb of Moschato. His task was determining whether content put up on Facebook should be allowed to stay there. In the few seconds until the next post would pop up on his screen, he would feel his chest tightening.

There is a long tradition in this country that has come at an incredible cost. It is one in which people who are deemed "disagreeable" are taunted and mocked when they dare to express a heretical view on a matter of significance. 

This has happened in the past with academics like John Spraos, former ministers Stefanos Manos and Tassos Yiannitsis and many others. 

The Greek National Opera presents a new and ambitious production of Vincenzo Bellini's "Norma" at the Herod Atticus Theater, for which it teamed up with director Carlus Padrissa and the acclaimed Catalan theater group La Fura dels Baus.

The artworks in "Collector's Perception - Sotiris Felios Collection," an exhibition curated by art historian Louiza Karapidaki, trace the character of Greek art over the past three decades. With the exception of two works, one by Takis, the other by Nikos Egonopoulos, all rest were created between 1988 and 2018.

Greece suffered a 1-0 friendly loss to Switzerland on Friday in its first match for 2018, going down at the Olympic Stadium of Athens to a team that will feature in this summer's World Cup.

A presidential election exit poll by Cyprus's state broadcaster shows incumbent President Nicos Anastasiades facing a runoff with independent candidate Stavros Malas, who's backed by the communist AKEL party.

Hospital officials on Greece's island of Crete say German-born cinematographer Walter Lassally, who won an Academy Award for the 1964 movie Zorba the Greek, has died following complications from surgery. He was 90. 

Artist Tassos Mantzavinos delves into the world of horror with "Edgar Allen Poe's Raven," an exhibition of drawings, engravings and colored inks inspired by the American writer's seminal work and organized by the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (MIET).