The Olympus Festival
The 55th Olympus Festival runs from 4 July to 8 September 2026 at the Ancient Theatre of Dion and other sites in Pieria, opening with a music-theatre tribute to the Cretan singer Nikos Xylouris under artistic director Vasia Karaveli.
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 55th edition runs from 4 July to 8 September 2026 under artistic director Vasia Karaveli.
The season opens on Saturday 4 July with Nikos Xylouris — Archangel of Crete, a music-theatre tribute to the Cretan singer Nikos Xylouris. The ancient stage then carries classical drama through the summer: Aeschylus’s Persians on 6 July, Euripides’s Medea on 17 July, Aristophanes’s Lysistrata on 25 July, and Sophocles’s Antigone on 8 August. The castle of Platamon takes the season’s concerts on 3 and 7 August.
The festival is one of the principal summer programmes held at ancient theatres in Greece, alongside those at Philippi and Epidaurus.