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Greece honored Maria Callas by opening the first museum dedicated to the opera legend in Athens a century after her birth. The Maria Callas Museum at 44 Mitropoleos Street features recordings of her most famous opera performances as well as...

Maria Callas may have died on this day 46 years ago but her immortal voice lives on, along with her legend. It's no mystery why Greeks, Italians and Americans, all claim Callas as theirs. She was born Sophia Cecilia Anna...

An 18th-century opera based on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice will be presented at ancient Corinth on August 29.

There are at least fourteen major operas that are based on themes and personages from Greek mythology and its glittering history. That says all one needs to know about the universality of Greek mythology and history, how much these...

The internationally renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform in Athens, Greece, in what will be his biggest ever concert in the country. The concert is scheduled to take place on July 18, 2023 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens,...

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 new book on Maria Callas reveals shocking details about the tragic private life of the greatest opera soprano of the 20th century

  The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) announced that it will grant 20 million euros to the Greek National Opera (GNO) this past week. The Opera organization recently moved into its new space at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. The...

Opera singer Montserrat Caballé, whose duet with Freddie Mercury became the signature song of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, has died aged 85. She had been suffering from health complaints for some time and was admitted to hospital in Barcelona last...

The new one-act opera "Hera" with music by Theo Abazis and a libretto by Elsa Andrianou is to be performed in the archaeological site on the island of Delos on October 6-7, bringing its ancient theater to life for...