As part of the third Spring Festival (April 8-20), organized by the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, the performance “Last Work” by the internationally renowned Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin will be presented. Naharin is the artistic director of the famous dance group Batsheva Ensemble, known for its dancers with rare expressiveness and stunning technical training.
The Megaron welcomes the most beautiful season of the year with the established Spring Festival (April 8-20), which combines concerts and dance performances featuring well-known international acts.
Euripidis Laskaridis and the Osmosis team present the new international co-production “Lapis Lazuli” at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center from April 4th to 21st, in its world premiere. As the inventor of a hybrid form of spectacle, bordering on performance, dance, and visual arts, blending grandeur with deliberately absurd elements, Euripides Laskaridis returns with the creation of another distinctive performance. Here, elements of the grotesque, the comedia, and the terrifying coexist seamlessly.
From December 2023 to November 2024, the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) presents – in four parts – a series of exhibitions exclusively dedicated to the artistic work of women or artists who self-identify as femininities, under the broader umbrella title “What if Women Ruled the World?” inspired by the eponymous neon work by Yael Bartana (2017), which is presented on the North and South facade of the EMST building and is visible from both lane directions of Leof. Syngrou.
On March 8, 2024, International Women’s Day, six exhibitions by five female artists are inaugurated, as the second part of the exhibition series. This thematic cycle is an initiative of the artistic director of EMST, Katerina Gregos.
The popular and award-winning musical “The Last Five Years,” with book, music, and lyrics by the great American composer Jason Robert Brown, one of the most beloved Off-Broadway musicals, returns to the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center from March 20th for nine unique performances until March 31st. “The Last Five Years” brings to the stage a New York story of an unusual love, offering an unforgettable musical theater experience.
The Greek National Opera presents, for the first time in its history, one of the most popular operas in the repertoire – Richard Wagner’s masterpiece “Die Walküre” – in an international co-production with the Royal Opera House of Denmark. From March 10th and for six performances at the Stavros Niarchos Hall, under the musical direction of Philippe Auguin and directed by John Fulljames.
The gallery a.antonopoulou.art inaugurates the exhibition of Leda Papakonstantinou on Saturday, February 17th, one of the most important female artists of the contemporary Greek art scene. Papakonstantinou has developed, over almost six decades, a body of work that moves in obvious, international directions and orientations.
Her work explores social reflection, feminist perspective, sexuality, gender identity, history, collective and personal memory. With a poetic disposition, she uses primal symbols with intense colors in the “Banners” and black-and-white in the sculptures and paintings of the “Wet Forest” section.
The Greek-American Union, in collaboration with the Association of Athenians, presents a historical and art exhibition about the neighborhood of Neapolis, curated by journalist Nikos Vatopoulos and art historian Iris Kritikou. Deepening the research and approaching with a contemporary perspective the legacy of the historic neighborhood, part of which is also the Greek-American Union itself, the exhibition “Neapolis, a cradle of carefreeness and youthfulness” will be inaugurated on Tuesday, March 5th at 7:30 p.m. at its gallery.
Three top tenor saxophonists from the European and global jazz scenes, along with an excellent vocalist and a fantastic rhythm section, form this supergroup that will perform at the “Half Note Jazz Club” from Friday, March 1st to Monday, March 4th. We’re talking about Tony Lakatos, Gilad Atzmon, Johannes Müller, and Randolph Matthews, who are joined by the iconic pianist George Kontrafouris, the exceptional bassist Grigoris Theodoridis, and the great drummer Enzo Zirilli.
The premiere of Anton Chekhov’s “Platonov” took place on the main stage of the Piraeus Municipal Theater, directed by the renowned Russian director Adolph Shapiro, starring Giorgos Christodoulou, Panagiota Vlanti, and Omir Poulikis, with a large ensemble cast of thirteen exceptional actors.
“Platonov” is an early work by Chekhov that was found untitled a few years after his death, so it was registered under the name of the central character. Within it, the predominant thematic motifs that would occupy Chekhov in his maturity are already present.
