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...
Eccoci (anco una volta) a Pesaro!
A (p)review of Rossini Opera Festival 2021 new productions
by Dr. Kyriakos P. Loukakos, hon. president of the Hellenic Drama and Music Critics...
Fidelio at the Royal Opera House in corona virus times
by Dr. Kyriakos Loukakos, Hon. President of the Greek Drama and music Critics Union (est. 1928)
We had planned our journey to...
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...
REFRESHING NEW DRAMA PLATFORM IN BRATISLAVA
by Dr. Kyriakos P. Loukakos
Every instant in life is unique and may be unrepeatable. So proved our opportunity to acquire a 3 LP...
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...
ZAPROSZENIE DO POZNANIA BORYS GODUNOW W ADAPTACJI IWANA WYRYPAJEWA
Dyrekcja artystyczna opery poznańskiej zaproponowała nam (z własnej inicjatywy!) wzięcie udziału w premierze nowej adaptacji opery „Borys Godunow" Modesta Pietrowicza Musorgskiego (1839-1881) zaplanowanej na...
27th IACT Congress and artistic events in Beijing
by Kyriakos P. Loukakos
The International Association of Theatre Critics (hence referred to as IATC) was first established back in 1956. Based in Paris, IATC...
LYRIC THEATRE IN THE 21st CENTURY
Economic crisis and aesthetic confusion: In search of viable strategic policies
by Kyriakos Loukakos
Coming from a land as much devastated by its public deficit...
