Teodor Currentzis

The acclaimed MusicAeterna Ensemble and Choir and Teodor Currentzis, a gifted conductor renowned for his energetic style, will perform at the Athens Concert Hall as part of its Great Orchestras - Great Condutors Cycle on November 11 and 12. On Monday, the ensemble will play "Tristia," a piece by multi-award-winning French composer Philippe Hersant based on poems written by prisoners.

Acclaimed Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis will be leading MusicAeterna, the resident orchestra and choir of the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theater, in Verdi's "Requiem" at the Athens Concert Hall on Tuesday, April 16. Verdi composed this magnificent work for orchestra, double choir and four soloists in memory of the poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni.

Onassis Cultural will host an exhilarating concert with works by Mediterranean composers, both young and old, thus bringing the "Composition and the Mediterranean: new musical spaces, new temporalities" conference to a close.

From music to theater and dance, the Greek Festival celebrates its 56th anniversary this summer. Founded in 1955 as the Athens Festival, its bar was set high right from the start, with Dimitris Mitropoulos leading the New York Philharmonic in one of the event’s curtain-raising performances. It has since hosted living legends including Maria Callas, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn.