One of Verdi’s most popular operas, Un Ballo di Maschera is back on the stage of the Greek National Opera. Theatre Director Dimitris Mavrikios, a self-confessed lover of musical theatre, is staging this tale of political intrigues, illicit love, scenes of betrayal and execution in one of the most exciting operas from the classical repertoire based on real people and events. From December 17 to January 8, 2012.
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Hanoi’s New Circus takes us on a poetic journey to distant Vietnam and the Far East, at the Onassis Cultural Centre, from December 22 to 29.
A real Christmas treat for lovers of classical ballet of all ages, P.I. Tchaikovsky‘s Swan Lake will be presented at the Athens Concert Hall for twenty-two performances, featuring some of the best-known names of international ballet and the Kremlin Ballet’s Corps de Ballet.
For second year successively the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation celebrates Christmas with a festive concert of Baroque Music, on December 27-28.
Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums bring swinging Christmas in Athens. At the forefront of swing revival, the San Francisco group will be on stage at the Half Note Jazz Club in full jump swing and R&B mood until December 27.
The Association of Artists for Peace, established in 2001 to support peace and reconciliation through musical events, is holding a Bach concert at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.
Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.
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In 1989, Professor of Byzantine Studies, Helen Ahrweiler is appointed Chairman of the Cultural Centre Pompidou in Paris