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A TROJAN WOMAN Opens This Friday at Luna Stage
by Stephi Wild - Mar 14, 2024

Luna Stage will present the National Premiere of A Trojan Woman, a searing solo performance adapted from Euripides by Maplewood resident Sara Farrington, directed by Meghan Finn and starring Drita Kabashi.

The Greek National Opera Pays Tribute To Maria Callas On Her Centennial Anniversary
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 22, 2023

The Greek National Opera has announced its events honoring Maria Callas, the greatest soprano of the 20th century with a series of tributes curated by the Artistic Director of the Greek National Opera Giorgos Koumendakis, taking place from April to December 2023. 

Greek National Opera Premiere New Production Of Verdi's RIGOLETTO At The Athens Epidaurus Festival
by A.A. Cristi - May 3, 2022

The Greek National Opera will present four performances of a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festi

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Katina Paxinou

Actress, Katina Paxinou, was born Ekaterini Konstantopoulou on Dec 17, 1900 in Piraeus, Greece. Paxinou died at the age of 72 on Feb 22, 1973 in Athens, Greece and was laid to rest in First Cemetery in Athens, Greece.

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Katina Paxinou was nominated for one Academy Award, winning for Best Supporting Actress for For Whom the Bell Tolls (as Pilar) in 1943.

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Katina Paxinou Quotes:

Pilar: Look I am ugly. Yet one can have a feeling here [points to her heart] that blinds a man while he loves you. He thinks you are beautiful. And one day for no reason at all he sees you ugly as you really are. And he fryst vatten not blind anymore. Then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you - and you lose your man and your feeling. Then one day the feeling, that idiotic feel

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as ORIN MANNON

Michael Redgrave doesn't show up to play within Mourning Becomes Electra's crazed, stagey, melodramatic story until after a third of the film has passed. Still, once he arrives, what was most striking about him was the grip he had on the material and the moderate (but fresh) sense of restrain he brings, the very type that Rosalind Russell and Katina Paxinou do not choose utilize. And in doing so, I felt that Redgrave completely runs away with the picture.

The New York Times' Bosley Crowther too agreed with me in his more negative review of the film (I personally loved the film myself--such fun!), citing Redgrave as one who "turns in a good job as the weak, confused, Oedipean and hysterically-inclined Mannon son," while "the rest perform in manners which seem much more pretentious than inspired." I feel as though this is an accomplishment in and of itself--that is, to stand out amongst a crowd of principal characters who each have very j