Epidaurus: 10,000-strong ovation for National Opera's 'Medea'

The production was a reconstruction of the historic 1961 production of 'Medea' with Maria Callas, staged once again in the ...
BroadwayWorld

Greek National Opera Returns to Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus With Reimagined MEDEA

The Greek National Opera returned to the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus with a reimagined version of the historic production of ...
Neos Kosmos

Ancient Greek theatre revives legendary Callas opera Medea

Sixty-five years after Maria Callas' legendary 1961 performance, Medea returns to the ancient theatre of Epidaurus in a ...
Greek Reporter

The Greatest Operas Based on Greek Mythology

There are at least fourteen major operas that are based on Greek mythology, showing how much it still speaks to us today over ...
Bachtrack

Facing the ghost of Maria Callas: Greek National Opera’s Medea at Epidaurus

To rebuild Maria Callas's 1961 Medea is to invite the cruellest comparisons in opera. For most of a single night at Epidaurus ...
WSLS 10

A century after her birth, opera great Maria Callas is honored with a new museum in Greece

ATHENS – Finishing her class at The Juilliard School of the arts in New York, Greek opera great Maria Callas gave her students a final word of advice. “Keep on going the proper way: Not with fireworks ...
The Guardian

Opera director Joe Hill-Gibbins: How I got an Oedipus complex

The ancient myth speaks to us still, and, through the prism of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s hard-hitting opera Greek, the director of a new production found insights, strange beauty and football chants ...