Athens Concert Hall (Megaron)
Marble-clad concert complex on Vassilissis Sofias with four halls and a sunken garden.
The Athens Concert Hall, known in Greek as the Megaron Mousikis, was promoted from 1953 by the Friends of Music Society but took decades to build. Designed by Emmanouil Vourekas and Petros Sakellarios, it finally opened in February 1991 on a site beside the American embassy on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue. Clad in white Pentelic and Thassos marble, it is the principal concert venue of the city and home to the Camerata, the orchestra of the Friends of Music Society.
A second phase, completed in 2004, added the Alexandra Trianti Hall, a fully equipped lyric theatre, along with a conference centre, a music library and an underground garden designed as an open-air extension of the foyers. The complex now has four main auditoria, the largest being the Christos Lambrakis Hall with its concert organ. Programming runs from symphonic and chamber concerts to opera, dance, lecture series, cinema relays and the Annex M exhibition gallery.
Highlights
- Christos Lambrakis Hall with its 6,300-pipe concert organ
- Alexandra Trianti Hall, a lyric theatre added in 2004
- Sunken Megaron Garden open to the public
- Annex M gallery for visual art exhibitions
