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  The schedule for the 2019 version of the spectacular annual arts festival taking place in Athens and Epidaurus, Greece was announced on Tuesday. The festival this year will include musical, theatrical and many other cultural events and will take place...

Greece’s leading cultural festival, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival kicks off once again on Friday for another year of spectacular performances. One of Europe's oldest performing arts festivals, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, that was first held in 1955, is a...

For over 60 years the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has been a highlight of the Greek summer, offering a diverse program of music, theater, dance and visual arts that take place at various venues around the city of Athens. The...

Greece's major cultural event, the 61st Athens and Epidaurus Festival, is full of youth this year with 80 performances at a number of venues from mid-June to mid-August this year. Events take place at the little and large Epidaurus...

Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre has accepted the invitation by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports to be the director of the annual Athens & Epidaurus (International) Festival for the 2016 – 2019 period. Greek artists expressed outrage on...

The Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2016 will begin this year on June 10, with a production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" at the Herod Atticus Odeon beneath the Acropolis, performed by the National Opera and directed by Enrico Castiglione,...

The Acropolis of Athens is a massive archaeological site brimming with the spiritual, artistic, and democratic wonders of ancient Greece, but with every turn, one comes across a new monument. So how does one know what is actually worth...

Greek-American opera diva Maria Callas had a volatile relationship with the Athens intellectual establishment, but this was never more evident than during her 1957 comeback concert in the Theater of Herod Atticus at the foot of the Acropolis. In 1957,...

A performance of the ancient Greek play "The Persians," by Aeschylus, will be streamed live to a global audience on Saturday, July 25, from the ancient theatre of Epidaurus. As part of this year’s Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the National...

Thousands of Athenians turned up on Thursday at the ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus, at the foot of the Acropolis, to watch Nana Mouskouri perform some of the songs that made her known throughout the world. The concert, part of...

International rock singer Sting has brought the house down during a two-night performance at Athens' Odeon of Herodes Atticus after speaking out on the refugee crisis. Sting, real name Gordon Sumner, sold out two shows at the iconic Greek venue as...

Athenians were left gazing in awe as a French artist performed breathtaking acrobatics in Syntagma Square in front of the Greek parliament on Thursday. Chloe Moglia's performance was part of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Greece's most prestigious summer cultural event...

The first ever film screening at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus will take place on June 30 with the 1962 cinema version of the Greek tragedy "Electra" by renowned director Michael Cacoyannis. Every year, the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus co-hosts the...

This year's Athens Festival will include 87 performances in a reduced but more targeted program than 2017's, organizers said this week. The annual Greek festival includes performances and events mostly focused at Irodio (Herod Atticus theatre) in Athens and the theatre...

British composer, singer-songwriter, actor, author, and activist Sting, will perform in Athens at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus for two live sets on 22-23 June 2018, as part of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. His latest album, 57th & 9th,...