The Epidaurus Festival is a great celebration that has lasted 60 summers and has hosted some of the biggest names in theater, music and dance such as Maria Kallas, Saint-Seans, Rostropovich, Pavarotti, Peter Hall, The Theater No, the Beijing Opera and many other distinguished artists. The last decade a dynamic number of spectators have embraced the festival and every summer is growing.
Epidaurus
In a canyon, in 340 BC, an Argos architect Polycleitus the Younger, built, according to Pausanias, the theater of Epidaurus the finest and most renowned of its kind, combining perfect acoustics with elegance, symmetrical proportions and capacity of 13,000 spectators. The Ancient Theater of Epidaurus is situated within the archaeological site of the Sanctuary of Asclepius, in the Argolis prefecture of the Peloponnese.