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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS — A rich program of concerts and new opera and ballet productions arrives onstage in Stavros Niarchos Hall at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center through the Greek National Opera (GNO)’s October to December 2021 program.
Works by distinguished Greek composers Paolo Carrer, Nikos Skalkottas, and Mikis Theodorakis, as well as music by U.S. film composers, will spark conversation about the Greek Revolution of 1821 as a historic event with global impact.
In parallel with the GNO’s program to mark the 200th anniversary of the revolution, the final months of 2021 will feature Giorgos Koumendakis’s opera The Murderess, a Puccini recital with opera star Sonya Yoncheva, a new production of The Nutcracker by the GNO Ballet, and an opera for the whole family with music by George Dousis and libretto by Eugene Trivizas.
Sometimes the best seat in the house is on your couch, and the GNO’s online streaming channel, GNO TV, features productions the whole family can enjoy from the anniversary celebration and its sixth online festival.
Discover the GNO’s new artistic program, made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.