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Bellucci returns to Athens to honor Callas

International star Monica Bellucci returns to Athens on Friday for a special screening of the documentary “Maria Callas – Monica Bellucci: A Meeting,” bringing the acclaimed project back to the city where its visual journey began.

  • Written by E.Tsiliopoulos

Greek National Opera: Winners of international opera awards 2025

The 12th International Opera Awards - the opera world’s most prestigious accolade - lit up the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera (GNO) in Athens on Thursday evening in a landmark celebration of the global opera community.
Hosted for the first time by the GNO and presented by BBC Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny, the event celebrated outstanding operatic achievement across five continents with finalists from 25 countries.

  • Written by E.Tsiliopoulos

The Goulandris Museum in ΝΥ courts over Van Gogh’s “Olive Trees”

In December 1889 Vincent van Gogh drew breaths of life, inspiration and creation, capturing on his canvas images from the garden of the psychiatric asylum where he is hospitalized with severe problems.

One of the works he painted during that period, “The Olive Harvest,” which today is exhibited on the first floor of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation Museum in Pangrati, is the subject of a fierce legal battle, since the heirs of a Jewish family claim that they are the lawful owners of it and are demanding its return from Athens, as well as very large compensation from the ΜΕΤ which sold it, in 1972, to the Greek shipping tycoon, art lover and collector.
  • Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
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