The Greek National Opera opened this season’s festival with Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot as Athens’ ancient theater hosts ...

To tourists, it’s the ancient theater at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends ...

One of Athens’ best-known tourist attractions is about to close for three years - Renowned artists who have performed here ...

The ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus theatre, built in AD161, opens for its final season before undergoing a three-year ...

Greek National Opera musician Neoklis Aravantinos plays his bass trombone ahead of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" premiere during the 70th Athens Epidaurus Festival at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus ...

Performers of the Greek National Opera Denia Mimerini, center, and Nikos Egglezos, left, prepare ahead of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" during the 70th Athens Epidaurus Festival at the Odeon of ...

Greek National Opera's Artistic Director, Giorgos Koumendakis poses ahead of the dress rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" by the Greek National Opera during the 70th Athens Epidaurus ...

Greek National Opera musician Neoklis Aravantinos plays his bass trombone ahead of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" premiere during the 70th Athens Epidaurus Festival at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus ...

Greek National Opera's Artistic Director, Giorgos Koumendakis poses ahead of the dress rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" by the Greek National Opera during the 70th Athens Epidaurus ...

Greek National Opera musician Neoklis Aravantinos plays his bass trombone ahead of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" premiere during the 70th Athens Epidaurus Festival at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus ...