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)

Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, one of the most fascinating and popular works in the operatic repertoire, returns to the Greek National Opera in an emblematic production featuring stage direction and set and costume designs by Nikos S. Petropoulos.

Tosca

Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, one of the most daring and popular works in the world repertoire, a story that illuminates the fiercest sides of human nature, will return to the Stavros Niarchos Hall in July 2027 for seven unique performances. In this iconic production by the Greek National Opera, featuring stage direction and set, costume and lighting design by Nikos S. Petropoulos, the action is reimagined from Renaissance Mantua to 1938 Milan. Set against the backdrop of Italy, misled by the illusion of Mussolini’s fascist glory and plunged into moral decay, the stage transforms into a suffocating film noir universe, where shadows seem more real than light, and power is displayed with cynical, extreme arrogance.

Petros Magoulas

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 30 - Nov 14, 2026

L’Orfeo · Greek National Opera

Jan 24 - Feb 11, 2027

Tosca · Greek National Opera

Jul 17, 2027

Rigoletto · Greek National Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Sparafucile in Rigoletto by Verdi

Greek National Opera

Plutone in L'Orfeo by Monteverdi

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Cesare Angelotti in Tosca by Puccini

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