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Betty Harlafti Travels to Switzerland to Perform Works by Mikis Theodorakis

Born in Athens, Greece, Betty Harlafti has traveled the world giving concerts in everything from encompassing Greek composers, lyrical performances, traditional Greek music such as rebetiko and jazz. Although the Greek Mezzo-soprano is perhaps best known for her collaboration with...

Vienna Concert to Honor Mikis Theodorakis

The great Greek conductor Mikis Theodorakis is going to visit world's classical music capital, Vienna, to attend a concert commemorating his work, which will be held in the prestigious Vienna Konzerthaus on Dec. 14. The world famous composer had promised...

Switzerland’s Zeitung Daily Claims Mikis Theodorakis is a Paranoid Nationalist

The Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung published an article titled: “Mikis Theodorakis and the Song of Paranoia”.  The article refers to the “Independent Citizens Movement, Spitha”, founded by Mikis Theodorakis in December 2010. The article wrote: “Mikis Theodorakis represented always...

Greece: Hollywood production on Mikis Theodorakis

The Greek composer and his lyric opera plays “Medea”, “Antigone” and “Electra” will be promoted abroad as an “antidote” towards the image of Greece, which has been recently reviled internationally. On the 21st and 28th of August, a play...

Mikis Theodorakis Film Opens in German Cinemas (video)

A movie on the life of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis will premiere in German cinemas on May 10. The film -- Dance Fight Love Die -- by director Asteris Kutulas is described as an exuberant visual epic; a poetic road...

Mikis Theororakis in Düsseldorf

By Aspasia Zontanou “Dearest Mikis Theodorakis” as Thomas Geißel, Mayor of Düsseldorf started addressing his greetings towards Mikis Theodorakis, 92, who was sitting in a wheelchair near the orchestra, almost 2000 guests in the audience immidiately reacted with standing ovations...

Theodorakis’ Apotheosis in Vienna

On December 14, world-famous composer Mikis Theodorakis was present at the Vienna Konzerthaus, when his longtime friend and colleague Alexandros Karozas, singer Maria Farantouri, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra conducted by Stefan Vladar, and the Vienna Academy of Music performed some of...

Theodorakis Censored Because Of Anti-Semitic Statements

Unexpectedly, Austrian National Council President Barbara Prammer cancelled the performance of the song trilogy 'Mauthausen' by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis in the framework of the commemoration of the 66th anniversary since the liberation of the Mauthausen extermination camp. The reason...

Hellenic Air Force Band Plays ‘Zorba the Greek’ in St. Petersburg (video)

"Zorba the Greek" played by the Hellenic Air Force Band got the St. Petresburg crowd excited during the International Military Bands Festival. The Hellenic Air Force Band was invited by the City of St. Petersburg for the annual event. Along...

Greek Documentary Awarded in Berlin

The Cinema for Peace Foundation in Berlin, Germany honored Greek documentary "Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film" by Asteris Kutulas with the Most Valuable Documentary for 2014 award. The documentary impressed the international jury, who described it as...

In Vienna: City of Kerenia Cyprus at the Center of Gala

The Turkish occupied city of Kerenia Cyprus' (the ancient Kerenia) eventful history was at the centre of a gala, that took place yesterday evening at Vienna’s Municipal Hall. The event was organized by Cypriot Cultural Center of Vienna and...

Voices of Greece in Vienna

Voices of Greece, a Christian music concert took its audience from Vienna to Greece on Oct. 7, an event that took place in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, organized from the Greek Orthodox Church in Vienna with the Roman Catholic Archdiocece...

Baltsa Sings Greek In Vienna Opera

The internationally renowned leading Greek mezzo-soprano, Agnes Baltsa, “the Greek with the angelic voice,” as the late famed conductor Herbert Von Karajan called her as she began a brilliant career, will perform songs of Greece at the first concert...

Theatrical Tribute to Ritsos in Vienna

A tribute to the great Greek poet, Giannis Ritsos will take place at the Interkult Theater in the capital of Austria, Vienna on May 21 and 22. The theatrical company …zur Sonne, the first Greek theatrical group in Vienna,...

Hellenism Honors Memory of Mauthausen Victims

Hellenism will honor the memory of 3,700 Greek victims of the Nazi World War II atrocities at the former concentration camp in Mauthausen, Upper Austria, on May 12. Thrice Holy, call of the dead, speeches, wreath laying and presentation of...