Electra

The premiere of "Six Women in Greek Tragedy," an arrangement of plays written by Greece's major tragedians, Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus, is set for June 22, 2024.

This open-air Ancient Greek theatre performance, directed by Panos Angelopoulos, will be hosted at the Athens University History Museum, in the hub of Plaka, beneath the heights of the Acropolis.

Belgian director Ivo van Hove, known for his avant-garde dramatizations, draws upon two Euripides texts, "Orestes" and "Electra," to tell the tale of a brother and sister united in their resentment of their mother, Clytemnestra. In collaboration with the Comedie-Francaise, van Hove is bringing the production to the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus for the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.

The Greek National Theater presents a bold new production of the entirety of Aeschylus' "Oresteia," the only extant example of an ancient Greek theater trilogy, with each part staged by a different director, each making their debut at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus.

Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev will deliver two lectures in Greece on the subject "The EU as a Community of European Law and Values" on November 26 and 27, organized by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

First presented in 408 BC, Euripides' "Orestes," which follows the events after Orestes has killed his mother, Clytemnestra, to avenge the death of his father Agamemnon at her hands, will be staged at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus on August 3 and 4, starting at 9 p.m.

The Greek National Opera formally inaugurates its new home at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) with Richard Strauss's "Elektra," directed by Yiannis Kokkos and conducted by Vassilis Christopoulos, with Sabine Hogrefe in the title role, Agnes Baltsa as Clytemnestra, Gun-Brit Barkmin as Chrysothemis, Frank van Aken as Aegisthus and Dimitris Tiliakos as Orestis.

The Greek National Opera (GNO) launches its new era at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in Athens with an ambitious work – Richard Strauss’ one-act opera Elektra [Electra] – as its first production premiering on the 15th of October 2017.

Vrasidas Karalis holds the Sir Nicholas Laurantos’ Chair in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney.

The Athens Concert Hall will screen a recorded broadcast of Richard Strauss's "Elektra" from the Metropolitan Opera in New York on Saturday, May 7. The opera is directed by French director Patrice Chereau and features Nina Stemme as Elektra, Waltraud Meier as Clytemnestra, Adrianne Pieczonka as Chrysothemis, Burkhard Ulrich as Aegisthus and Eric Owens as Orestes.

We saw Juliette Binoche for the first time in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Three Colours: Blue” movie and we fell in love with her talent. The French actress has visited Greece many a time and is a huge fan of ancient drama. In a few weeks, the actress will be acting out Antigone, in London the famous Sophocles ancient tragedy, this time directed by Ivo Van Hove.