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Myrto Papathanasiou is going to play the role of Iphigenia, starring in Christoph Willibald von Gluck’s new opera production Iphigenia in Aulis. The premiere will be held at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. Composed by Alessandro de Marchi,...

A group of Syrian women are adapting the Euripides’ tragedy “Iphigenia”, using a a play set during an ancient war to bring Berlin audiences closer to the plight of women driven from their homeland by conflict. The play, staged this...

A 1,800-year-old mosaic, which showed the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra during the Trojan War in Greek mythology, was found at excavation works in the ancient city of Perge in Turkey’s Mediterranean region. Perge excavations head...

The winner of the 2016 James Tait Black Prize for Drama went to the play Iphigenia in Splott, written by Gary Owen, who said that he was inspired by the ancient Greek myth where King Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter...

Marking the Greek EU Presidency, Greek Film Week will take place from April 23 to 28 in Belgrade, under the title "Images from the past, vision of the future", and under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece, Serbia's Ministry of...

    The British auction house Bonhams seems to be withstanding the pressure and holding onto its market share, despite the crisis. The first Greek sale in the London auction managed to find buyers for 71 percent of the lots. Turnover came...

Bonhams sale of Greek art features several works which refer to the heroism of a mythical past, and reflect the artists’ view of painting as the only way to explain what it means to be Greek in the modern...

British BFI - England's most important cinematographic organization - has planned a feature on ancient Greek tragedies. This June, BFI will present 10 ancient tragedies shooted by some English TV producers from the late 1950s through 1990. All these movies...

Instability of the markets, especially after recent elections in Greece, may have been the reason why 50% of the Greek artworks auctioned at the London-based Bonhams Auction House were not sold, according to its officials. Greek Sales had 103 Greek...

Euripides’ masterwork “Iphigenia in Aulis”, to be staged at NO99 Theatre of Tallinn, is the very first Estonian production of the ancient Greek tragedy. Directed by Lorna Marshall, the play will open on Saturday, March 17, and aims at...