The Municipal Theater of Lycabettus returns from the end of May until October with more than 50 nights featuring major names from the Greek and international music scene, as well as top-notch performances of high aesthetic and quality.
Release Athens 2024 welcomes Pulp on Thursday, June 20, at Plateia Nerou. The top band from Sheffield reunited this year, performing concerts in the United Kingdom. Next summer, they will also tour other European countries, with Greece being one of their chosen destinations. More names for that specific day and the festival will be announced soon.
The top band will be performing in front of the Greek audience for two spectacular, sold-out concerts at the Athens Olympic Stadium on June 8 and 9. Their world tour, “Music of the Spheres,” is a mission to awaken awareness for the Earth, and those who attend will have the fortune to experience an unprecedented environment, following the guidelines below.
The musical segment of this year’s Athens Epidaurus Festival 2024 program follows the familiar guidelines, emphasizing the mini-festivals we’ve come to know in recent years, which return with renewed vigor (Subset Festival, Indie Playground Festival, Jazz in the Square) as well as international guests from the fields of opera, jazz, classical, contemporary, and experimental music.
Some of the most influential bands that emerged from the British alternative scene are preparing to take over the festival stages that will captivate Athenians this summer. Massive Attack, Pulp, Kasabian, Placebo, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets are some of the big names that will be performing in the festival heart of Athens this summer. The appearance of superstar Lenny Kravitz deserves special mention.
The largest Athens Jazz ever is here. The 23rd edition of the longest-running jazz music festival in Greece is coming to the Technopolis City of Athens from May 26th to June 3rd, offering Athenians and visitors nine days filled with live concerts and exciting encounters with the most talented musicians from Greece and abroad.
The Athens Digital Arts Festival, the first and largest international platform for digital arts in Greece, celebrates two decades of creation and digital innovation in contemporary art with a special anniversary event in two iconic venues in the heart of Athens. From May 16th to May 26th, the Former Court of Santorozas and Justice Square will be transformed into a vibrant stage of artistic expression and technological experimentation, hosting the 20th Athens Digital Arts Festival under the title “TECHNO(S)CENE”.
With the spring urban picnic on May Day in the historic Plato’s Academy park, the city “welcomes” the 3rd This is Athens City Festival, the grand celebration of the Municipality of Athens, which this year extends throughout the entire city. For more than a month, from May 1st to June 2nd, the Festival with more than 250 events will visit not only the bustling areas but also the most unexpected spots of the city, bringing vibrancy to all neighborhoods of the Municipality of Athens.
This year, the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus makes a historic move. For the first time in the history of the two countries, Bulgaria’s most significant and historic theatrical institution, the Drama Theatre of Plovdiv (Plovdiv Drama Theater), presents in Greece the multi-award-winning and highly-traveled production “Odysseus.” The production, which recently premiered at the prestigious international Mitem festival of the National Theatre of Budapest, marks a significant cultural exchange between the two nations.
From May 15th to May 19th, the Main Stage of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center will host a significant co-production by Emillia Romagna Teatro featuring Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, “Waiting for Godot.” The play, which defined theater in the second half of the 20th century, is presented for the first time at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center under the direction and scenic design of the renowned Theodoros Terzopoulos, who also oversees lighting and costumes. This is a monumental performance, bordering on high poetry and irreverent comedy, which has already received rave reviews from the Italian press.
