The leading public cultural organization of the country, the Athens Epidaurus Festival is one of the oldest festivals in Europe. This year marks 67 years of operation. During these years, he has hosted some of the biggest names in Music, Dance and Theater from the domestic and international scene,

Since the summer of 2006, five new theatrical stages have been added to the Festival premises, in the industrial area of ​​Piraeus 260, which is an emblematic station of modern creation, while, of course, performances, concerts, actions continue to be organized at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens and at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus.

Since September 2019, Artistic Director has been taken over by the director Katerina Evangelatou. The main axes of the artistic direction today are the expansion of the international character of the Festival but also the support of the artistic research in the field of performing arts, on the horizon of the development of new audiences.

THE PROGRAMME

PEIRAIOS 260

 YANNISHOUVARDAS The Other Side of the Tempest

BEAVER DAM COMPANY – EDOUARD HUE All I Need

ERMIRA GORO THIRST

GREEK COMPOSERS’ UNION Reactivate Music

Χορός, 1 – 2 Ιουνίου, Η Beaver Dam Company – Edouard Hue All I need

Χορός, 3 – 5 Ιουνίου, Ερμίρα Γκόρο THIRST

A COLLABORATION OF THE ATHENS EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL WITH GOETHE-INSTITUT ATHEN AND CTM FESTIVAL                              

Mini Festival of Electronic and Experimental Music

NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA Burt Turrido: An Opera

COMÉDIE-FRANÇAISE–IVO VAN HOVE Tartuffe,or the Hypocrite by Molière

IOANNA PORTOLOU Amazing

MARTIN ZIMMERMANN Danse Macabre

TEATRO RE-SENTIDA – MARCO LAYERA Oasis de la Impunidad

ELEANATSICHLI The Seven Madmen based on the novel by Roberto Arlt

BODHI PROJECT – PATRICIA APERGI Newtopia

CHRISTIANE JATAHY Dusk based on the film Dogvilleby Lars von Trier

ATHENS EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL URBAN DANCE CONTEST Hip Hop Battle & All Style Battle

MARLENE MONTEIRO FREITAS Mal – Embriaguezdivina

YOULA BOUDALI Spring

ALEXANDER RAPTOTASIOS Antigone(as part of the VAST research programme) by Sophocles

CAROLINE GUIELA NGUYEN FRATERNITY, a Fantastic Tale

KATERINA ANDREOU MοurnBaby Mοurn

Ioanna Portolou, Amazing

PHILIPPE QUESNE FarmFatale

AN ATHENS EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL ANDDRAMA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL COLLABORATION The Drama Short Film Festival on the Road Sonic Convergence

ANDONIS FONIADAKIS AXES

GIORGOS KOUTLIS The Dog, the Night, and the Knife byMarius von Mayenburg

YOTA ARGYROPOULOU – BLINDSPOT THEATRE GROUP Youthquake

LIA RODRIGUES Fúria Jazz at the Platea

DIMITRIS TSAKAS QUINTET featuring BRENDA NAVARRETE SYMPOSIUM TheEpidaurusFestival: Past and Future

ΩΔΕΙΟ ΗΡΩΔΟΥ ΑΤΤΙΚΟΥ

GREEK NATIONAL OPERA–LUKAS KARYTINOS–KATERINA EVANGELATOS Rigoletto                                                                                                                                                            

MONTEVERDI CHOIR – ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS – JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Works by Schütz, Schein, Bach

DIMITRIS PAPADIMITRIOU Beyond the Frame

GEORGE DALARAS What to Remember, What to Forget

A Tribute to Apostolos Kaldaras with EstoudiantinaNeasIonias

ERT NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA–MICHALIS ECONOMOU–GUY BRAUNSTEIN Fête de la Musique

JAN GARBAREK GROUP featuring TRILOK GURTU THESSALONIKI STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – ZOI TSOKANOU – DANIEL LOZAKOVICH

Works by Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov

 

PATTI SMITH

FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA – MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG Works by Rossini, Beethoven, Dvořák

MAX RICHTER                                                                                                                                                

DIANA KRALL

ATHENS STATE ORCHESTRA – LIONEL BRINGUIER – MISCHA MAISKY Works by Evangelatos, Dvořák, Rachmaninoff

MARIA FARANTOURI – TRIBUTE TO MIKIS THEODORAKIS

AUTECHRE

LEONIDASKAVAKOS Violin Concertos by Bach

NIKOS PORTOKALOGLOU– 40 YEARS The Whole Story

LAURIE ANDERSON

ROSS DALY

JEFF MILLS Tomorrow Comes the Harvest

IBRAHIM MAALOUF

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR

MODERAT

ATHENS STATE ORCHESTRA – LUKAS KARYTINOS Gioconda’s Smile – The Birds

GREEK NATIONAL OPERA–PHILIPPE AUGUIN – HUGO DE ANA Tosca

ANCIENT THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS

schauspielhausbochum – JOHAN SIMONS Alkistis by Euripides

NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE – YANNIS KALAVRIANOS MedeabyBost

DIMITRIS KARANTZAS The Persians by Aeschylus

RESIDENZ THEATER– ULRICH RASCHE Agamemnonby Aeschylus

NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE – ARGYRIS XAFIS Ajax by Sophocles

Cezaris Graužinis Antigone by Sophocles

NATIONAL THEATRE OF NORTHERN GREECE – VASSILIS PAPAVASSILIOU Helen by Euripides

THEMIS MOUMOULIDIS Iphigenia in Aulisby Euripides                                                                                                                             

Children’s creative workshop in Epidaurus

LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS

STUDIORESIDENCYAT THE LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS Parodos                                                                                                                                                             

TAKIM “PERIPLANOMENO” featuringEleniVitali, KostasTriantafyllidis, andSofiaPapazoglou

NIKOS KYPOURGOS Ta Kypo-Theatrika

EFI THEODOROU Roots of Cotton by Kallia Papadaki

After Sophocles’Ajax

VASSILIS MAVROGEORGIOU Epitrepontesby Menander

EURIPIDES LASKARIDIS– OSMOSIS TOURΝÉ

SYLLAS TZOUMERKAS TheWahncau File by EliasMaglinis

AfterEuripides’ Alcestis

ATHENS EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL THEATRE BOOK SERIES Can a Leopard Change its Spots? by Christos Chomenidis

AfterEuripides’ Ion