Onassis Stegi at Mittelfest

Onassis Stegi, dedicated to its mission in releasing the creative potential of Greek artists, aims to cultivate constant and vital synergies and collaborations with international institutions, in order to present the contemporary artistic production outside of Greece.

This July, Onassis Stegi collaborates with one of the most prestigious festivals of theatre, dance, and music in Central Europe; Mittelfest, with the support of Onassis Stegi, presents from 12-21 July in Cividale del Friuli - in the North East of Italy - a special focus on Greece.

Mittelfest will include in the program the Onassis Stegi productions: on 20th July Clean city by Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris, with immigrant cleaning ladies as the ideal protagonists, on 13th July A brief guide for prospective tightrope walkers from Jean Genet’s The tightrope walker (1955), by Stathis Markopoulos, a modern , lyrical puppet theater for all ages from Ayusaya Puppet Theatre, and on 21st July, Anonymo by Tzeni Argyriou, a dance performance which seeks its roots in rites of initiation and participation.

Over the years, Mittelfest has hosted extraordinary shows and great Italian and international protagonists: from Pina Bausch to Isabelle Huppert, Luca Ronconi, Emir Kosturica, Riccardo Muti. The stage of the Festival is the center of Cividale del Friuli, a Longobard city that became a UNESCO World Heritage site and contextualized in an area of ​​great historical, artistic and natural intensity, placed as it is near the Roman town of Aquileia.