Musicians

The Greek National Opera's (364 Syngrou) new season opens with a double bill of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "Iphigenia in Aulis" and "Iphigenia in Tauris." A collaboration with the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Paris National Opera, the production, directed by the acclaimed Dmitri Tcherniakov, explores the myth of the Atreides and Gluck's dramatic realism.

Family, friends, colleagues, artists, and the general public are gathering at the First Cemetery of Athens to pay their respects to the great composer Mimis Plessas, who passed away on October 5, just before turning 100.

Watch live footage from the First Cemetery of Athens as we bid a final farewell to Mimis Plessas:

Renowned guitarist and living Chicago blues legend John Primer returns to the Half Note Jazz Club after 14 years for four exclusive performances. With two Grammy nominations and a rich legacy, Primer, born in Mississippi in 1945, is a respected propagator of authentic Chicago blues.

Beloved comedian Billy Crystal and pioneering rapper Queen Latifah are among the 46th crop of Kennedy Center honorees, one of the United States' most prestigious arts awards, the center announced on June 22.

The iconic Glastonbury Festival opened its doors on June 21, with a torrential downpour threatening to turn the famous site into a mudbath for the 200,000 music fans set to descend on a farm in southwest England to see acts including Arctic Monkeys, Guns N'Roses and Elton John.

Kicking off the summer program at the Athens Concert Hall (megaron.gr) is a screening of the revival of Franco Zeffirelli's version of Georges Bizet's "Carmen" as presented last year at the Verona Arena in Italy. With costumes by Anna Anni and sets by El Camborio, it stars the Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca and is conducted by Marco Armiliato.

While the fashion world braced for the celeb juggernaut of Pharrell Williams's first show in Paris on June 20, a young designer was making his own modest splash with a debut below his own home.

The legendary English rock band will be joining the lineup of this year's Rockwave Festival. Cited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest band, Deep Purple comprised one part of the "unholy trinity" of hard rock and metal music back in the 1970s, along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

This much-anticipated festival is known for bringing together up-and-coming artists with world-celebrated established acts, and this year's lineup only proves this further, as it includes the much-adored Florence + the Machine, as well as the Editors, Warpaint, Goatgirl and Royal Arch. Tickets are available exclusively at viva.gr. 

The iconoclastic Berlin-based pianist, composer and producer Nils Frahm will be performing at the Herod Atticus Theater as part of the Athens-Epidaurus Festival. Known for his captivating concerts, Frahm is renowned for his unconventionally compelling piano playing that has won him fans all over the world. Tickets are available on the Athens-Epidaurus Festival website, aefestival.gr.