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ATHENS EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
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OPERA GALA AT THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL (23-07-2018 9:00 pm) A big lyrical gala, with top opera scenes will be presented at the Athens Concert Hall, produced by MidAm International, on Monday, July 23, 2018 by Musical Director and Chief Peter Tiboris and guest Chief Giovanni Pacor.
An international cast consisting of three famous soloists: soprano Eilana Lappalainen, tenor Gian Luca Pasolini and bass barbarian Carry Perrson and more than 300 choirs from the United States and Greece will present the most beautiful and powerful music moments from the operas: "Il Trovatore", "Nabucco", "Turandot", "Otello", "La Traviata", "Rigoletto", "Verlo", "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" Carmen "by Bizet, Giordano's" Andrea Chenier "and Mascagni's" Cavalleria Rusticana ".
The concert features for the first time in Athens the outstanding Pan-European Philharmonia Orchestra from Warsaw.
Opera Gala, with touching moments, full of passion, pain and love in an unforgettable evening for the music lovers of Athens. One night you should not lose anyone who really loves the opera.
For more information, please visit the official site of the Athens Concert Hall: www.megaron.gr.
AEGEAN RALLY 2018 (30-07-2018 10:00 pm) The 55th edition of Aegean Rally – one of the oldest and most popular sailing regattas in Greece – is gearing up to set sail again this summer attracting professional athletes and top sailors from across the world on 20-30 July 2018.
Considered one of the largest sailing races in Greece and one of the most challenging in Europe, Aegean Rally, which has been running since 1964, is a great sailing competition held annually across the Aegean archipelago during the third week of July. The offshore race, which brings together internationally renowned sailors and world champions from around the world, starts in Athens’s Faliro district and finishes back in Attica following a beautiful sailing route across the Cyclades and the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea.
Aegean Rally 2018 kicks off on July 20th from the historic Battleship Averof – now a naval museum – at Faliro Bay in Athens’s southern coast and winds through the beautiful Greek islands of Paros, Leipsi and Amorgos before reaching the finish line at the spectacular Temple of Poseidon in Attica’s Sounio on July 30th, having sailed an approximately 350-nautical-mile-long route in an eleven day’s period.
This year’s event is divided into four different stages, namely Faliro to Amorgos on July 20th (132 nautical miles) Amorgos to Leipsi on July 24th (55 nautical miles), Leipsi to Paros on July 26th (84 nautical miles) and finally Paros to Sounio on July 28th (64 nautical miles), whereas Aegean Rally is also known for its parallel activities, which include a rich entertainment programme at every island along the sailing route.
Eligible boats at Aegean Rally are sailing boats with a wide range of length and sail classified as vessels designed especially for racing and seagoing vessels.
The 55th Aegean Rally is organized by the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club (HORC).
More info about Aegean Rally:
Aegean Rally is an international sailing regatta held annually in the Aegean Sea. It was first launched in 1964 and is therefore Greece’s oldest open-sea sailing competition. With the northern seasonal wind, called ‘meltemi’ blowing over the Aegean Sea at around 4 to 5 on the Beaufort Scale during July and August the Aegean archipelago provides the perfect backdrop for this challenge and invigorating event .
For more information about the event and to register please see here https://www.aegeanrally.gr/index.
ATHENS & EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL 2018 (19-08-2018 8:00 pm) The Greek calendar is full of cultural festivals and events, especially during the summer months. One of the most prestigious Greek festivals – that has been running for more than 60 years attracting large audiences from Greece and around the world – is the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.
What is it about: Greece’s foremost cultural festival and one of the oldest performing arts festivals in Europe (1955), the Athens & Epidaurus Festival each year presents numerous theater, dance, and music artists, acclaimed in Greece and worldwide, attracting large audiences from around the world.
Taking place annually between June and August, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival features a top line-up of Greek and international theater, drama, opera, music and dance performances held at various historic and modern venues across Athens as well as at Epidaurus in the Peloponnese.
The festival is best-known for its ancient venues, namely the amphitheatre of Epidaurus and Athens’ 2nd Century B.C. Odeon of Herodes Atticus; both open-air. The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus is located within the archaeological site of the Sanctuary of Asklepios in the Peloponnese, which is only a 30m drive from picturesque Nafplio and a 2h drive from Athens, whereas the Odeon of Herodes Atticus lies beneath the Acropolis Hill dominating the western end of its southern slope.
Since its inception in 1955, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has staged world class performances by internationally acclaimed artists spanning across all fields of performing arts; among them some of the biggest names in music, theatre and dance, including – to name but a few – Frank Sinatra, Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Martha Graham and Rudolf Nureyev.
So, it comes as no surprise that this year’s Athens and Epidaurus Festival also boasts an impressive lineup! The festival’s 2018 edition includes world-famous Greek singer Nana Mouskouri, Italian orchestra Il Pomo d' Oro, Moscow's Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, British violinist Nigel Kennedy, American actor Bill Murray, rock musician Sting and many more.
The Athens leg of the festival opens at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus with Verdi's "Nabucco" on June 1st and closes with Bizet's "Carmen" on July 31st, whereas the Epidaurus leg of the festival kicks off on June 29th with Aristophanes' “The Acharnians” and closes on August 18th with Sophocles' “Oedipus at Colonus”. In between and for over a month several classic works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes will be presented every Friday and Saturday at the Epidaurus amphitheater.
All performances have English subtitles unless otherwise stated. Lastly, Athens’s Pireos 260 venue – another iconic venue of the festival – will be hosting contemporary Greek and international plays. Its inaugural performance is "The Pursuit of Happiness" by the US-based Nature Theater of Oklahoma on June 1st.
For more information please visit the official site of Athens & Epidaurus: www.http://greekfestival.gr/en/events
ATHENS OPEN AIR FILM FEST 2018 (29-08-2018 10:00 pm) The 8th edition of Athens Open Air Film Festival (AOAFF) returns to the city this summer and will be organizing free screenings of a wide selection of films between June-August 2018 against the backdrop of some Athens’s most iconic monuments and unexpected locations.
During the festival archaeological sites, museums and central spots of the city, including squares, parks and pedestrian areas, are transformed into a large open air cinema in order to host outdoor screenings of some of the greatest movies in film history.
The 2018 Athens Open Air Film Festival kicks off on June 4th with Clint Eastwood’s critically acclaimed film “The Bridges of Madison” (1995) featuring Meryl Streep in one of her best ever on screen performances. The festival’s opening film will take place at the Byzantine and Christian Museum garden – one of the most beautiful urban spaces in Athens – and is proudly supported by the U.S. Embassy in Athens.
AOAFF 2018 also joins forces with Athens & Epidaurus Festival for the fourth consecutive time and will be featuring a series of screenings at several iconic Athens & Epidaurus Festival venues, such as Athens’s Pireos 260. Moreover, in a rare collaboration between the two festivals the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus will be hosting its first ever film screening on June 30th with the Academy Award nominated cinematic adaptation of Euripides’s tragedy “Electra” by Michael Cacoyiannis (1962).
Additionally, in collaboration with the «Lost Highway of Greek Cinema», this year’s AOAFF will feature a tribute to renowned Greek filmmakers Stavros Tsiolis and Kostas Gavras. The tribute includes a special screening of digitally restored copies of their first films («The Young Runaway, 1968» by S. Tsiolis and «The Sleeping Car Murders, 1965» by K. Gavras), both of which will take place at the beautiful Cine Riveria on June 25th and July 6th respectively.
Finally, the festival continues its long established and successful partnership with the British Council by presenting a tribute to legendary literary adaptations on the big screen. The tribute is titled “Classics Illustrated” and it includes screenings some of the genre’s most well known masterpieces, such as “The Remains of the Day, 1993” by James Ivory, “The Collector, 1965” by William Wyler, “Lord of the Flies, 1963” by Peter Brook and many more.
The festival that runs until August 29th is organized by Cinema Magazine and Athens International Film Festival in association with Athens Municipality’s Culture, Sports and Youth Organisation, OPANDA.
For more information about AOAFF’s 2018 programme, please see here: http://www.aoaff.gr/english_2018/
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