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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 Αssociated Press
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.