Posted July 27, 2015

 

Good News/Bad News comes from WSNC Member Andy Rombakis:

 

The bad news: Greece is in the middle of a horrible financial crisis.

The good news: this is not stopping them from building a multimillion-Euro cultural center and fantastic new opera house (so typically Greek, but it looks like it is coming from private funds donated by the Niarchos family.)

http://www.euronews.com/2015/06/26/athens-new-multi-million-euro-cultural-hub-on-schedule-for-2016-opening/

 

The good news: It looks like they plan to mount a brand new Ring cycle production (Also Strauss’ Elektra and Salome)

The bad news: It looks like it will be just one installment per year. No news yet about a complete Ring in festival format.

The good news: That’s a good excuse to visit Greece 4 times!

http://www.snf.org/media/3431151/ENG_Greek-National-Opera_-2014-2019-.pdf