1st SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL / HOLY MONDAY

The Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Greek National Opera and Eurolife FFH present the 1st Sacred Music Festival, a new large-scale cultural event that will take place at 17 historical landmarks in the centre of Athens, from Holy Monday to Holy Wednesday. The Festival, curated by Giorgos Koumendakis, will feature a marathon of 62 concerts and artistic events, highlighting numerous and unexpected aspects of the relationship between religious worship and music, in museums, archaeological sites, churches, streets and squares.

HOLY MONDAY PROGRAMME 

Epitaph / Acropolis Museum (courtyard) / Starts at 17.00 and 20.30

R-evolution #Passion / Athens University History Museum / Starts at 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 

“… in the desert”, opus 124 (2022) / Fethiye Mosque (Roman Agora) / Starts at 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00

In the dawn of spring / Μuseum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments “Fivos Anoyanakis” – Centre for Ethnomusicology / Starts at 18.00 and 19.00

Εquábili / Acropolis Museum (entrance level) / Starts at 18.00 and 19.00

Stabat Mater / Catholic Cathedral Basilica of St Dionysius the Areopagite / Starts at 19.30

Hellenic Air Force Βand / Starting point: in front of the Acropolis Museum - Stop: Thission Square - End: Kapnikarea Square / Starts at 21.15

Liturgy of Τemptations / Church of St Elissaios – Museum of Modern Greek Culture / Starts at  22.30 

An hymnological pilgrimage through Holy Week / Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre church / Starts at  22.30 

First Sacred Music Festival info leaflet available to read and download here