In a very interesting double bill, Greek National Opera (GNO) put together Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide and its followup, Iphigénie en Tauride, which is set 20 years after the first opera. The first opera, which received its premiere on 19

Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, was a most unfortunate character in stories of the Trojan War. Granted the power of prophecy by the god Apollo if she would sleep with him, he tainted the

Greek National Opera ended its season with Tosca, given outdoors at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus amphitheatre, located under the Acropolis wall. The stage is unusual in that it’s wide but not very deep, there are no wings, and the

The history of Kurt Weill’s 1930 masterpiece, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) at the Greek National Opera is an uneasy tale of power and achievement. The first production in 1977 was