Love potion and Holy Grail redundant?
Love potion and Holy Grail redundant?
by Dr. Kyriakos P. Loukakos, Honorary President of the Hellenic Drama and Music Critics’ Union
Deposition of symbols...
Exclusively obscure Rossini by ROF 2023 – An erudite but debatable option
By Kyriakos P. Loukakos, music critic - Honorary President of the Hellenic Drama and Music Critics Union (est.1928)
A foreword in memoriam Renata...
Illuminating return to the Green Hill and its enduring Wagner shrine
by Dr. Kyriakos Loukakos, music critic of the Athens daily journal AVGI (Sunday edition) and www.criticscorner.gr e-magazine - Honorary President of the...
20th CENTURY MASTERPIECES AT THE GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL 2023
by Kyriakos Loukakos, music critic of the Athens daily journal AVGI (Sunday edition) and www.criticscorner.gr e-magazine – Honorary President of the Greek Drama and...
To Prague for Puppet Theatre … and more!
by Dr. Kyriakos Loukakos, Music and Lyric Theatre critic - honorary president of the Greek Drama and Music Critics Union (established 1928)
Oddball - photo...
40th ANNIVERSARY FOR FESTIVAL ROSSINI DI PESARO
By Dr. Kyriakos P. Loukakos, Hon. President, Greek Drama and Music Critics’ Union (est.1928)
The announcement of Olivier Descotes as the new general...
BAYREUTH 2019 – Always good for surprises
by Dr. Kyriakos P. Loukakos, music critic Honorary President of the Greek Drama and Music Critics’ Union (established 1928)
Trivialized Tannhäuser of considerable...
ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL 2018 – TOWARDS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN REGIONS
By Dr. Kyriakos P. Loukakos, Hon. President of Hellenic Drama and Music Critics’ Union
It is by no coincidence that we chose to entitle this...
BAYREUTH 2018 – INTERESTING DEBUTS AND SAD FAREWELLS
By Dr. Kyriakos P. Loukakos, Honorary President of the Hellenic Drama and Music Critics Union
Die Walküre ovvero Ein Plädoyer für Domingo
It was...
Festival Nová dráma in Bratislava – About its 2018 issue and around it
by Dr. Kyriakos P. Loukakos, Hon. President of the Greek drama and Music Critics Union
For a concentrated period of its 4 central days we...
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL 2017 – AT L(E)AST NO SCANDALS!
by Kyriakos P. Loukakos
Foreword
Alongside reporting about the abundant flow of prominent guests, including not only seasoned Wagnerite Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and her...
2nd MOLYVOS INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
German efficiency and Greek enthusiasm join forces
by Kyriakos P. Loukakos
Many among us have nurtured the supposition that German soprano Marlis Petersen, one of the...
PESARO 2016 – NEW FACES IN ROF AT THE BARBER’S 200th ANNIVERSARY
by Kyriakos P. Loukakos
As we put these lines on paper our mind and heart follow the indescribable lute for the many victims and...
ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL 2015 ON TO THE FUTURE
by Kyriakos P. Loukakos
With 3 major operatic ventures announced for its 2016 edition, i.e. La donna del Lago, Il Turco in Italia and...
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL 2015 (Mostly) Variations on black and grey
by Kyriakos P. Loukakos
The instructive power of a random trilogy
After having attended, in summer 2014, a disconcerting Ring cycle by Frank Castorff, the rather...
BAYREUTH 2014: THE CASTORF RING AND ITS ISSUES
by Kyriakos Loukakos
It is always a special occasion being in Bayreuth. The 72,576 (2009) inhabitants “festival and university” capital of Upper Franconia has...
ECCOCI (ANCORA) IN PESARO
by Kyriakos Loukakos
After intensive traveling in a matter of hours via Nürnberg, Munich, Athens, Venice and Bologna, the passage from Bayreuth’s Wagnerian oddities...
ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL 2013: ASSURED AND EXALTANT
ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL 2013: ASSURED AND EXALTANT
by Kyriakos Loukakos
One has only to note the press book foreword by Sovrintendente Gianfranco Mariotti in order to...
