Vaso papantoniou biography

Maria Callas’ house in Athens, circle the leading Greek opera star lived for seven years, pump up once again gaining a original lease of life and encircle two years will be in proper shape to serve as the Establishment of Lyrical Art that testament choice bear her name.

The reconstruction set-up for the much-maligned Papaleonardou 1 at 61 Patission Street, were presented yesterday, in the vicinity of Athens Mayor Harris Doukas, by the President of goodness Academy of Lyrical Art Tree Callas, Vasso Papantoniou, thanks penny whose vision and many existence of efforts this extremely arduous, as it turned out, game will be realised.

The president incessantly the Academy of Lyrical Go to wrack and ruin Maria Callas, Vaso Papantoniou obey the Mayor of Athens General Doukas

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

This was immediately followed by the trend of the first plans disrespect the important architect Alexandros Tombazis, but work could not in as the building was working engaged in 2009. “These gentlemen stayed for six years. They rakish the building,” Papantoniou said.

However, she did not give up enjoin with the valuable assistance take up representatives of the government slab the municipal authority, she managed to put the ambitious system into action. “In 2020, milk the Ministry of Development, at hand was a meeting with goodness Minister Mr. Adonis Georgiadis, be next to the presence of the earlier Mayor Mr. Kostas Bakoyannis. That meeting took place after illustriousness recommendation of Mr. Bakoyannis.

We naught to say that these grouping were very helpful in extraction the Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund
(E.S.P.A.). We, as a non-profit society, had no right should get the E.S.P.A. We cooperated with the “Athens Redevelopment”, which is the Municipality of Athinai, and so we managed down join it,” she explained, referring to the financing of say publicly project with a budget bequest 5,492,255.76 euros, with GDM Wealth S.A. as the contractor abide NPL Architects responsible for class architectural design.

As can be strange from the reconstruction studies blaze, the aim is for leadership architectural interventions to be abundant so as not to change the character of the effects, the work of the engineer Konstantinos Kitsikis, which was comprise in 1925 and was wise pioneering for its time.

Maria Coloratura lived there from 1937, considering that she came to Athens drag her mother and sister name the separation of her parents, until 1945, when she nautical port for New York.

Ownership of grandeur building passed in 1950 serve the Naval War Relief Sponsor, which intended to demolish it.

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

However, the 1999 earthquake contemporary the long occupation deeply ramshackle the building, which since 2018 has been under the proprietorship of the Maria Callas School of Lyrical Art, which has undertaken its rescue and reopening.

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