Ruggero Leoncavallo

Internationally acclaimed Greek baritone Dimitri Platanias is taking the stage at the Greek National Opera with two roles that have already earned him rave reviews in London and elsewhere: Alfio in Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" and Tonio in Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci," enduring representatives of the Italian verismo movement.

The world-renowned composition Carmina Burana, planned to be staged in Turkey's western province of ?zmir, was canceled due to "technical reasons," after prominent Turkish pianist and composer Faz?l Say said the piece contained sections about "sex and wine." Say's remarks came in response to the removal of his own piece in favor of Carmina Burana in the Antalya Symphony Orchestra's program, dai