![A man rides his bicycle outside the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation headquarters in Nicosia, Cyprus February 26, 2021. [Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cyprus_eurovision_broadcasting_ruters-768x480.jpg)
Some Christians in Cyprus are in a lather over the country’s offering this year to the annual Eurovision song contest, saying it has scandalised the faithful with its references to the devil.
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![Actress Amalia Moutousi, left, is seen with Dimitris Kamarotos who conceived the project, composed the music and curated the audio dramaturgy, inside the emblematic National Library of Greece’s historic premises. [Yiorgis Yerolymbos]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Promitheas_Vallianios_SNFCC_yerolymbos_cropped-320x200.jpg)
Despite the adverse conditions, theater buffs are being treated to a new production that is being brought to their screens in five performances broadcast live, starting on Friday night.
Antonio Vivaldi’s timeless “Four Seasons” concertos will be available on the Greek National Opera’s streaming platform as of February 27.
“Landscapes of the Soul: In Conversation with Werner Herzog” provides insight into the workings of the director’s mind, a mind which created landmark films such as “Fitzcarraldo” and “Aguirre, The Wrath of God.”
The third Athens Fashion Film Festival will be held digitally this year and has been titled “Touch me, not,” in a wink to the age of social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The London Symphony Orchestra performed Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto and Franz Schubert’s Ninth Symphony (the “Great”), conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and featuring Greek solo violinist Leonidas Kavakos.
The American School of Classical Studies will be hosting Hariclia Brecoulaki as part of its “Greek Painting in Context” webinar series.
The Camerata – Friends of Music Orchestra’s Armonia Atenea ensemble is at the Athens Concert Hall, under the baton of George Petrou, with a series of concerts exploring milestones in the history of music and in its instruments.
Akram Khan’s critically acclaimed production of “Giselle” for the English National Ballet, is comingback to computer screens in Greece from the Christmas Theater on additional dates.
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The Goulandris Museum of Natural History is set to unveil a fascinating new permanent exhibition dedicated exclusively to climate change at its Gaia Center.
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One of the hottest names on the global techno scene, Charlotte de Witte, will be performing a DJ set live from Ancient Messene.
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The annual lecture in memory of David Tiano will be on the Romaniote community of Ioannina and will be delivered by archaeologist Zanet Battinou.
![Cartoonist Julien Berjeaut, who reimagined the classic French-Belgian comic book series about the cowboy Lucky Luke, adding a Black hero based on a pioneering deputy US marshal, at home in Paris, February. 12. For the first time in the Lucky Luke comic book series, one of a handful of classics that, for generations, had been an integral part of growing up in France and other francophone countries, Black characters have full-fledged roles and are drawn without the racist depictions that marred the genre. [Andrea Mantovan/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/comic_web-320x200.jpg)
PARIS – A few years ago, Julien Berjeaut was a cartoonist coming off a hit series when he received the rarest of offers in the French-speaking world: taking over a comic book classic, Lucky Luke.
Theater director Dimitris Lignadis was given until Wednesday to answer charges of rape. Meanwhile, he remains jailed. The prominent director arrived at the examining magistrate’s office a little before 10 am Sunday, flanked by three police officers in civil clothing and handcuffed. The examining magistrate and a prosecutor will determine, after hearing Lignadis’ statement, whether […]
While their country faced a deep financial crisis from early 2009 to late 2018, an increasing number of Greek historians started seeking out the truths buried in their history and the milestone that is the 1821 Greek War of Independence.
Stage actor and director Dimitris Lignadis, until recently artistic director of the National Theater has been arrested. Lignadis is being accused of multiple rapes, a felony.
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In celebration of International Greek Language Day, the Greek Embassy in the US and the Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of Chicago will host a lecture by Dr Anastasia Giannakidou.
Revoula Benizelos belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families of Byzantium. However, she chose a path much different to that of the coveted bride she was meant to be.
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Greece’s Christmas Theater is screening an online opera and ballet extravaganza from Milan’s world-famous La Scala theater.
Archaeologist Angelos Zarkadas began investigating the secretive repatriation of a looted ancient statue after reading about the case in an old Kathimerini report.
Tassis Christoyannis’ first real brush with “Don Giovanni” was in 1998 when he performed the title role in Italy, under the direction of Daniele Abbado.
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