My artistic inspiration by the greatest Opera Diva of all time became the beginning of a magical journey that aims to revive her legend. Monaco was the place she loved, the place she felt free and the place she had deep relations. Let’s make together that ode to her an unforgettable experience, and keep her star always bright.
Ioanna Efthimiou
President & Founder of Maria Callas
Monaco Gala & Awards / Royal Artist.
My artistic inspiration by the greatest Opera Diva of all time became the beginning of a magical journey that aims to revive her legend. Monaco was the place she loved, the place she felt free and the place she had deep relations. Let’s make together that ode to her an unforgettable experience, and keep her star always bright.
Ioanna Efthimiou
President & Founder of Maria Callas
Monaco Gala & Awards / Royal Artist.
Ioanna Efthimiou is an Internationally renowned and accomplished artist born of Greek parents in Perth, Australia. She studied Fine Arts majoring in painting at the University of Fine Arts in Athens, where she graduated with Honours. She continued her postgraduate studies in New York and London (Royal College of Art).
She has exhibited her work at more than fifty personal exhibitions around the world – in London, Monte Carlo, New York, and Athens, to mention just a few. She also participated in many group and solo exhibitions as in Art Monaco, Top Marques, Monaco Yacht Show, Quai des Artistes restaurant, EFG Bank Monaco, and at the Cars Collection Museum of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco. Many of her paintings belong to private and public art collections in Greece, the United Kingdom, Monaco, Switzerland, Austria, Cyprus, the United States and other countries.
The greatest part of the artist’s work, entitled “Ob longing II”, belongs to the Moroccan royal family. Twelve portraits belong to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. Ioanna Efthimiou lives and works in Monaco and Greece. She is also President of International Action Art Monaco. She has had the title of “Royal Artist” since 2017. . Maria Callas has always been a great source of inspiration for Ioanna, who had the ambition to be able to honor her in the place she loved most; Monaco. This magnificent Event is for the President and founder of the Maria Callas Monaco Gala & Awards an Ode dedicated to the greatest Opera Diva ever.