Robert Wilson

As part of the 50th Istanbul Music Festival, Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska will take the stage at the Atatürk Culture Center (AKM) on June 9. At the concert, she will share the stage with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.

 This year's Nobel laureates will receive their prizes at home this week after the coronavirus pandemic forced the traditional Stockholm and Oslo ceremonies to cancel.

The awards in the six categories were announced in nearly typical fashion in October, albeit with fewer reporters in physical attendance.

Acclaimed American director Robert Wilson rings in the start of the Greek Festival's section which draws from the classical playwrights with a bold interpretation of Sophocles' "Oedipus" at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus.

Choreographer Marianna Kavallieratou explores definitions of gender in "They," a new piece she is presenting at Bios from February 5 to 8, featuring dancers Alexandros Vardaxoglou and Alexis Fousekis. Kavallieratou, a graduate of the London Contemporary Dance School and The Place, danced in the 1990s with Robert Wilson at the Watermill in New York, where she also later taught.

The subject of Vaslav Nijinsky's diary first came up in 2013 during a rehearsal for "The Old Woman" by Daniil Kharms, directed by Robert Wilson and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe.

Renowned theatrologist Jovan Ćirilov passes away

BELGRADE -- Serbian theatrologist Jovan Ćirilov died aged 84 in Belgrade on Sunday, the Yugoslav Drama Theater (JDP) said in a statement.

Ćirilov was art director and selector of the Bitef theater festival since its establishment in 1967 and long-term director of the JDP.

BELGRADE - Jovan Cirilov, a Serbian theatrologist, art director and selector of the Bitef theatre festival since its establishment in 1967 and long-term director of the Belgrade-based Yugoslav Drama Theatre, died at 84 in Belgrade on Sunday, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre (JDP) said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Dragonslayers (Zmajeubice), a play written by Serbian playwright Milena Markovic and directed by Iva Milosevic, has been staged with great success before a packed out National Theatre in Prague, Belgrade-based Yugoslav Drama Theatre (JDP) said in a release on Tuedsay.

BELGRADE - Dragonslayers (Zmajeubice), a play written by Serbian playwright Milena Markovic and directed by Iva Milosevic, will be staged by a Yugoslav Drama Theatre (JDP) troupe at the National Theatre in Prague on November 3 and the Schauspielhaus theatre in Graz on November 6.