Athens Concert Hall

The acclaimed MusicAeterna Ensemble and Choir and Teodor Currentzis, a gifted conductor renowned for his energetic style, will perform at the Athens Concert Hall as part of its Great Orchestras - Great Condutors Cycle on November 11 and 12. On Monday, the ensemble will play "Tristia," a piece by multi-award-winning French composer Philippe Hersant based on poems written by prisoners.

The Thessaloniki Concert Hall is screening a production of Giacomo Puccini's heart-wrenching drama "Madama Butterfly" live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York on Saturday, November 9, with the Athens Concert Hall following suit a week later, on November 16. Hui He stars as the devoted geisha who sacrifices everything for the dashing American navy officer Pinkerton, sung by Andrea Care.

The Athens Concert Hall is screening a live performance from the National Theater in London of Simon Woods' new play "Hansard: The Official Report of All Parliamentary Debates," a witty and devastating portrait of the governing class in the UK, directed by Simon Godwin and starring Olivier Award-winners Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings.

After touring Europe, North America, Asia and Australia for the past two-and-a-half years, award-winning choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou returns to Greece for two final performances of "The Great Tamer" at the Athens Concert Hall on November 29 and 30.

Tuning in live from Moscow, the Athens Concert Hall will be screening the Bolshoi Ballet's celebrated production of "Raymonda," choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich after Marius Petipa, on Sunday, October 27. In Alexander Glasunov's romance Raymonda is betrothed to Jean de Brienne, a gallant knight in the service of the King of Hungary.

The Athens and Thessaloniki concert halls are screening a performance of Jules Massenet's opera comique "Manon," live from New York's Met on Saturday, starting at 7.55 p.m.

After a successful collaboration with the Athens State Orchestra last year, dynamic Belgian conductor Michel Tilkin returns to the podium to conduct the acclaimed Greek ensemble at the Athens Concert Hall on Friday, December 18.

Berlin-based composer, musician and producer Nils Frahm, renowned as an electronic music pioneer for his innovative approach to the piano, will appear at the Athens Concert Hall on Tuesday, September 24. The show is part of a world tour titled "All Melody." Tickets range from 25 to 55 euros and can be purchased via the venue's website.

Director of the NYU Music Experience Design Lab and core faculty in the Music and Audio Research Lab at NYU Steinhardt Dr Alex Ruthmann will deliver a lecture at the Athens Concert Hall on Tuesday, September 17, starting at 7 p.m.

For the first time in its 54-year history, Paris's avant-garde Theatre du Soleil was entrusted by its founder, Ariane Mnouchkine, to another director: Canada's acclaimed Robert Lepage. "Kanata: Episode I - The Controversy" is based on the story of a French artist who was moved to paint the portraits of indigenous women murdered in the slums of Vancouver by a serial killer.