Classical music

The 12th Hania Chamber Music Festival will take place at the Minoa Palace Resort and the Ancient Theater of Aptera from August 26 to September 4. Each of the six concerts will juxtapose works from the German Classical and Romantic traditions with works from Russia, Poland, Armenia and the Czech Republic, all of them written in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Conductor Yorgos Ziavras embarked on a musical odyssey 11 years ago, departing Greece in pursuit of a classical music career. His departure underscores a lamentable reality: Greece's lack of investment in cultural education. However, despite this neglect, the melodies of its musical heritage are a profound source of inspiration, even for the classical repertoire.

Leo Muscato and the Greek National Opera return to the Herod Atticus Theater in Athens this week with the Italian director's 2018 production of "Nabucco," the first major opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

Multi-Grammy Award winner Joyce DiDonato will be gracing the stage of the Athens Concert Hall (megaron.gr) as part of her tour with her new project, "Eden," described by the American mezzo as "an overture to contemplate the sheer perfection of the world around us." For the show, the famously theatrical DiDonato joins forces with the orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro and French director Marie Lambert-Le B

One of Greece's most influential composers of the 20th century, Yannis Markopoulos, was admitted on Friday to the intensive care unit of the Alexandra General Hospital in Athens after complications that occurred during treatment of the cancer he has been suffering from for the last year. 

A baroque Warsaw mansion hosting a museum dedicated to one of Europe's greatest 19th century musicians, Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin, was reopened at the weekend with a new focus on original artifacts after months of pandemic-spurred renovations.

'Minkus Night,' to be staged by the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet on March 31 and April 1at the Kadıköy Municipality Süreyya Opera, will present a selection of the most difficult and beautiful parts of the ballet works that have an important place in the classical ballet repertoire, inspired by the music of Ludwig Minkus. The event will start at 8:30 pm.

Kirill Petrenko thought back to the spring of 2020, when his first season as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic was abruptly stopped by the coronavirus pandemic.

"We all were very destroyed because at a certain point we thought no one needs us anymore," he said. "Their life goes on.

Pairs of Turkish fighters flew over Kinaros, Mavra Lerou and Kandeliosa

The CSO Ada Ankara, where the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) started hosting music lovers last year, has become the capital's cultural island and is preferred by world-renowned artists.