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Singers and orchestra of the Greek National Opera perform during the video recording of "Despo-Greek Dances" Opera and dance performance in Athens, Saturday, March 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
3/14/2021
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ATHENS (AP) — Dozens of museum exhibitions, theater productions, discussion panels and historical re-enactments were planned in Greece for this year to commemorate the bicentennial of the 1821-1832 Greek War of Independence.
But due to the coronavirus pandemic, mezzo-soprano Artemis Bogri and her fellow singers stepped onstage in an empty theater to perform the Greek National Opera's new production of “Despo,” one of the events marking 200 years since the war that resulted in Greece's independence from the Ottoman Empire and rebirth as a nation.