The Greek National Opera opens the 2026/27 season with a new grand international co-production with two leading opera companies from Europe and the United States: the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the New York Metropolitan Opera. Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo—a landmark work in the history of music that marks the birth of opera as a complete dramatic art—is presented for the first time by the GNO. Bearing the stamp of the renowned and versatile artist William Kentridge, this emblematic work transforms into a multilayered audiovisual landscape, where themes of memory, time, and loss take on form, movement, and material dimensions. L’Orfeo will run from 30 October for eight performances at the Stavros Niarchos Hall. The production is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to enhance the GNO’s artistic outreach.

L’Orfeo

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)

Igor Stravinsky’s three-act opera The Rake’s Progress, one of the most distinctive and multilayered works of the 20th century, an allegorical tale about the pursuit of happiness, the ambivalence of ethical choices, and the limits of free will, will be presented by the Greek National Opera in the 2026/27 season in a new production that engages in a creative dialogue with the very history of opera. Staged by distinguished director Alexandros Efklidis, the work is approached as a living opera museum, a wandering through time, in which different eras and aesthetics coexist, illuminating the enduring tension between tradition and contemporary perspectives.

Christos Kechris

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 30 - Nov 14, 2026

L’Orfeo · Greek National Opera

5 - 19 Mar, 2027

The Rake’s Progress · Greek National Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Orfeo in L'Orfeo by Monteverdi

Greek National Opera

Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky

Greek National Opera

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