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A squirrel, the darkness-woman and a walking tree meet up in an original musical tale about diversity. Stop motion animation and contemporary music create a magic forest of sounds and images, inspired by Sofia Gubaidulina’s work Musical Toys (1969).

A Shepherdess I Loved, memories from a musical mission in Greece of 1875 by Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, will stream on GNO TV.

Astor Piazzolla: Tango Nuevo. A Special Centennial Concert by Yiannis Hadjiloizou, Musical and Artistic Director of the Athens Philharmonic.

Synthesis, a new performative-installation conceived, planned and curated by choreographer Tzeni Argyriou and visual artist Vassilis Gerodimos, is coming to the GNO Alternative Stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on 29, 30 and 31 October 2021.

The GNO Learning & Participation Department returns and launches the new 2021/22 season with a renewed, rich programme for children, teenagers, young people, schools of primary and secondary education, adults, persons aged 65 and over, amateur and professional artists in Athens and other regions of Greece.

Concurrently with the production of his new music theatre work The Air of Greece at the Alternative Stage, award-winning composer George Tsontakis will host a three-day composition workshop, addressed to composers up to the age of 35, on 20, 21, 22 December 2021.

The Greek National Opera (GNO) announces the return of its fall programming (October, November, December) for the Alternative Stage, the company's state-of-the-art performance venue dedicated to new music, experimentation, and creative dialogue between emerging and more established composers and theater artists.

 The Greek National Opera (GNO) today announced the programming for its fall 2021 season, which runs from October through December and marks the company's return to indoor performance at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).

Renowned as a composer, a conductor, a fighter, Theodorakis was one of the pillars of contemporary Greek identity from the Metapolitefsi period onwards (1974-), one of the leading, most prolific and influential representatives of Greece both inside the country and around the world.

The Greek National Opera presents a superb world-class artistic event. The “king of tenors”, the opera super star, the fascinating performer with the unique voice and unparalleled stage presence comes for the first time –at the absolute peak of his career– for a unique recital at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, thanks to the sponsorship of ROLEX.

The Alternative Stage of the National Opera starts the new artistic season at the SNFCC with an ambitious anniversary production, the new, original musical-theatrical work of Kapodistrias: One drama of a secret life of Kalliopi Tsoupaki. The performance is under the musical direction of Nikos Vassilios and directed by Themelis Glynatsis.

The Greek National Opera presents a superb world-class artistic event. The “king of tenors”, the opera super star, the fascinating performer with the unique voice and unparalleled stage presence comes for the first time –at the absolute peak of his career– for a unique recital at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, thanks to the sponsorship of ROLEX.

This is a co-production of the Greek National Opera, the Bavarian State Opera (Munich), the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra national de Paris and the Teatro di San Carlo (Naples).

This is a co-production of the Greek National Opera, the Bavarian State Opera (Munich), the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra national de Paris and the Teatro di San Carlo (Naples). The production is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to enhance the Greek National Opera's artistic outreach.

It is a co-production of the Greek National Opera, the Bavarian State Opera (Munich), the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra national de Paris and the Teatro di San Carlo (Naples). The production is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to enhance the Greek National Opera’s artistic outreach.

Goodwill Cultural Ambassador Ronald Rand, during his 20th year touring around the world to 25 countries will perform at the Theatre of Changes' 17th International Festival of Making Theater in his celebrated solo play, LET IT BE ART! as Harold Clurman, 'the Elder Statesman of the American Theatre,' on August 2nd at Theatre of Change, 19a Tritus Septemuriou Street in Athens, Greece.

Goldie Hawn channeled Death Becomes Her co-star Meryl Streep and danced to Mamma Mia while vacationing in Greece!

Synthesis is a new visual performative installation by choreographer Tzeni Argyriou and visual artist Vassilis Gerodimos that tackles the complicated historical event of the Greek War of Independence. More than 30 artists from all the spectrum of performative and visual arts join forces to create this work, which will be presented on the GNO Alternative Stage at the SNFCC in October 2021, introducing audiences to a unique experience.

It is a filmic installation displaying six chapters from the history of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, projected simultaneously on three cinema screens. The project was curated by Orestis Andreadakis, artistic director of the Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Athos Danellis’ original historical shadow puppet play in three acts Byron in Greece brings Karagiozis, our legendary childhood hero, and the Greek adventures of Lord Byron to your screen via GNO TV.

The Ballet of the Greek National Opera presents twelve new original and imaginative choreographies to works by Greek composers on GNO TV as part of the 5th GNO Online Festival titled Body, remember.

Based on the historical testimonies on her life and work, as well as on the repentant Byron’s subsequent letters and poems about his abandoned daughter, the prolific new music virtuoso Yannis Kyriakides gives voice to this unique historical figure –with her equally colourful, “Byronic” personal life– in a work of multimedia music theatre that showcases and draws on the implications of her pioneering scientific research.

From 17 May to 31 July 2021, the Greek National Opera presents a double bill of opera and dance, two remarkable works of the Ionian and the National Schools of Music, exclusively on GNO TV, as part of the celebration of the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, featuring the Orchestra, Chorus, Ballet and Soloists of the GNO.

The Greek National Opera presents a double bill of opera and dance, two remarkable works of the Ionian and the National Schools of Music, exclusively on GNO TV from 17 May to 31 July 2021, as part of the celebration of the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, featuring the Orchestra, Chorus, Ballet and Soloists of the GNO.

Today at 5pm, the Greek National Opera will present a concert with two important works by the great Mikis Theodorakis, Epitaphios (1958) and Dionysos (1985), produced by the Alternative Scene of the National Opera.