Audiences will have the opportunity to enjoy 15 opera, ballet, musical theater, and operetta productions, as well as programs for families and educational and social activities. The program, “The GNO tours Greece,” is one of the main outcomes of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's (SNF) grant to support the GNO’s artistic outreach.
From July 2025 to July 2026, the GNO is presenting a program tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized venues to bring lyrical art to every corner of the country and to the large audience of people outside urban centers, offering them a unique opportunity to get to know new works of lyrical art, dance, musical theater, and music.
SNF Co-President Andreas Dracopoulos said, “Broadening access to high-quality works of culture for all is a long-standing objective for us at SNF. Through our exceptional partnership with the Greek National Opera (GNO) and its artistic director, Giorgos Koumendakis, we are striving to explore creative solutions in this direction. The touring program that we are supporting, with the aim of strengthening the GNO's artistic outreach, is to a certain extent a revival of one of our first collaborations with the GNO: support for small-scale productions that traveled to the Greek provinces during the construction of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) so that people living there could get to know the GNO’s multidimensional work. Today, thirteen years later, this initiative remains just as relevant and essential, and it is now expanding to reach even more people through a rich, robust, and high-quality program. We are confident that it will be met with a warm response, and that the performances travelling to every corner of the country will in turn transport audiences to magical and unexplored worlds.”
From Sakelaridis' operetta I want to see the Pope to Verdi's Rigoletto in shadow puppet form, from Future Cargo to Return of the Summer by the GNO Ballet to Symphony of the Athlete and Cine Pastiche, from the family-friendly performances Silence the King Is Listening and Isadora Duck to a series of special concerts and educational and social programs, the GNO's touring program in Greece will offer audiences a one-of-a-kind opportunity to experience the magical world of the GNO.
All performances in “The GNO tours Greece” program will be free to the public.