The Olympus Festival
OR.FE.O.'s annual summer festival at the Ancient Theatre of Dion and other sites across Pieria ran in its 54th edition from 5 July to 7 September 2025, opening with the National Theatre of Greece's Oresteia directed by Theodoros Terzopoulos.
The Olympus Festival is a performing-arts festival held in Pieria, in the Macedonia region of northern Greece, organised by OR.FE.O. — the Olympus Festival Organisation. Staged since 1972, its principal stage is the Ancient Theatre of Dion at the foot of Mount Olympus. The 54th edition ran from 5 July to 7 September 2025.
The opening night, Saturday 5 July, was given to the National Theatre of Greece: Aeschylus’s Oresteia, the complete trilogy — Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides — directed by Theodoros Terzopoulos at the Ancient Theatre of Dion. The programme then spread to other sites across the region: concerts at the castle of Platamon, seminars and workshops at the archaeological park of Leivithra, and performances at the open-air municipal park theatre of Katerini and the archaeological site of Pydna.
The 55th edition ran from 4 July to 8 September 2026, also opening at the Ancient Theatre of Dion.