Anna Bogdanova is an Athens-based freelance writer whose work spans brand strategy, journalism, essay, and fiction. She has been a serious devotee of opera and ballet for almost twenty years and is a regular at the Greek National Opera, with particular interest in contemporary stagings of canonical work.
To rebuild Maria Callas’s 1961 Medea is to invite the cruellest comparisons in opera. For most of a single night at Epidaurus, Greek National Opera withstands it, but then comes the final act...