Controversy surrounding Belgian Jan Fabre’s stewardship of Athens and Epidaurus festival reaches all the way to Athens culture ministry The Athens and Epidaurus festival has seen its fair share of drama in its 61 years. Maria Callas and Luciano Pavarotti sang there; Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev danced. Through the years of Greece’s military dictatorship, returned democracy and economic crisis, the annual summer celebration of the arts has inspired and provoked. This year, however, it has succeeded on both fronts before the festival has even begun – and not, perhaps, in the way its backers had hoped. Continue reading...
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