Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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Athens and Epidaurus 2016 Festival Kicks Off with Verdi’s ‘Aida’
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, an Italian director and set designer noted for his “cinematic” approach and realism. The opera is in Italian, with Greek and…
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Socceroos beat Greece 1-0
YOU just know this Australian team will never give up, even if in the end they needed a Leckie break to claim a European scalp. A 1-0 win for the Socceroos over Greece at ANZ Stadium last night came courtesy of the last kick of the game, Mathew Leckie’s turn and shot from the edge…
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German Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide
BERLIN — The German Parliament overwhelmingly adopted a symbolic but fraught resolution on Thursday declaring the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 a genocide, escalating tensions with Turkey at a diplomatically delicate juncture. The Turkish government angrily denounced the vote as “null and void,” and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his ambassador in Germany back to Ankara for consultations. “The way to…
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‘Greeks’ Exhibition to Open June 1 at National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.
“The Greeks—Agamemnon to Alexander the Great”spans 5,000 years of Greek history and culture, presenting stories of individuals from Neolithic villages through the conquests of Alexander the Great. This unprecedented exhibition features more than 550 artifacts from the national collections of 22 museums throughout Greece, making it the largest exhibition of its kind to tour North…