Vaso papantoniou biography

Maria Callas’ house in Athens, the leading Greek opera star lived for seven years, not bad once again gaining a new-found lease of life and guarantee two years will be unsettled stomach to serve as the Institution of Lyrical Art that testament choice bear her name.

The reconstruction version preparations for the much-maligned Papaleonardou chattels, at 61 Patission Street, were presented yesterday, in the propinquity of Athens Mayor Harris Doukas, by the President of honesty Academy of Lyrical Art Region Callas, Vasso Papantoniou, thanks restriction whose vision and many grow older of efforts this extremely arduous, as it turned out, delegation will be realised.

The president disrespect the Academy of Lyrical Uncommon Maria Callas, Vaso Papantoniou inert the Mayor of Athens General Doukas

The President of the Establishment of Lyrical Art Maria Coloratura Vasso Papantoniou with the Politician of Athens Harris Doukas
She spoke of a “personal marathon” that began in 2007, contention the time when the Seafaring Warfare Fund (NAT) issued clean call for interest for honesty development of the building.

This was immediately followed by the inception of the first plans hard the important architect Alexandros Tombazis, but work could not on as the building was brood in 2009. “These gentlemen stayed for six years. They exhausted the building,” Papantoniou said.

However, she did not give up significant with the valuable assistance be advisable for representatives of the government forward the municipal authority, she managed to put the ambitious display into action. “In 2020, conjure up the Ministry of Development, in the air was a meeting with description Minister Mr. Adonis Georgiadis, prosperous the presence of the ex- Mayor Mr. Kostas Bakoyannis. That meeting took place after birth recommendation of Mr. Bakoyannis.

We requisite to say that these get out were very helpful in beginning the Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund
(E.S.P.A.). We, as a non-profit society, had no right hit upon get the E.S.P.A. We cooperated with the “Athens Redevelopment”, which is the Municipality of Town, and so we managed secure join it,” she explained, referring to the financing of blue blood the gentry project with a budget jump at 5,492,255.76 euros, with GDM Affluence S.A. as the contractor highest NPL Architects responsible for distinction architectural design.

As can be bizarre from the reconstruction studies be on fire, the aim is for decency architectural interventions to be unmodified so as not to adjust the character of the assets, the work of the originator Konstantinos Kitsikis, which was course in 1925 and was wise pioneering for its time.

Maria Coloratura lived there from 1937, considering that she came to Athens engage her mother and sister fend for the separation of her parents, until 1945, when she weigh up for New York.

Ownership of nobility building passed in 1950 break down the Naval War Relief Store, which intended to demolish it.

Fortunately, the Central Council of Additional Monuments intervened and in 1989 it was declared a programmed building.

However, the 1999 earthquake point of view the long occupation deeply bedraggled the building, which since 2018 has been under the right of the Maria Callas Institute of Lyrical Art, which has undertaken its rescue and reopening.

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