Summer 2016 - Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή

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Dear friends
of the Greek National Opera
W
e sense the need to share with
you the emotional state and
enthusiasm of a traveller who
is ante portas of his final destination. Our
Greek National Opera, that since 1940 has
been presenting works of the international
and Greek operatic repertoire, is about
to be relocated from the Olympia Theatre
to its new home, at the Stavros Niarchos
Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).
Throughout its history, the GNO has
hitherto offered us outstanding moments of
magic and delight. Still, culture is in motion;
not a static situation. It is a journey, not a
harbour. It is our conviction that culture
should embrace the entire society and
therefore we have no choice but to continue
this journey with all of you as fellowtravellers. This is our vision for the new era
dawning before our eyes.
In June, at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus,
I shall have the honour of conducting, along
with Elias Voudouris, Aida, this most popular
and emotional opera by Verdi. Directed by
Enrico Castiglione, the production originates
from the Taormina Opera Festival. In July, the
audience will enjoy the celebrated Carmen by
Bizet, to be conducted by Lukas Karytinos
and directed by Stephen Langridge. One of
the highlights of this summer is going to be
our tribute to the famous Greek composer
of the avant-garde Jani Christou that will
take place on 25 June on the Alternative
Stage of the GNO at the Stavros Niarchos
Foundation Cultural Center, in a series
of events entitled "Metamorphosis: The
SNFCC to the World" that will take place in
the premises of the SNFCC.
Greek National Opera will celebrate on
21 June the World Music Day with a free
concert in the loft of the National Museum
of Contemporary Art at Fix.
At the Visitors’ Center of the SNFCC
the pocket concerts and educational
programmes will be continued with free
entrance for all.
Those who did not manage to enjoy the soldout show LINKS by Antonis Foniadakis, our
new GNO Ballet Director, have the chance
to do so by travelling to Kalamata where the
performance will be given in the framework
of the International Dance Festival, on 15 and
16 July. Finally, in early July, our customary
annual presentation of the GNO Dance
School will take place.
It is our wish, dear friends, that our summer
productions as well as those of the new
season to be shortly announced, will mark
the onset of a new era for the cultural
history of our country, its ulterior aim being
to move you and bring about the kind of
magic that only the arts and creativity may
procure in this challenging period we live in.
I wish you a delightful summer,
Myron Michailidis
Artistic Director
Greek National Opera
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Opera
Opera
A I DA
CARMEN
Giuseppe Verdi
Georges Bizet
Opera in four acts
A GNO production originating from the Taormina Opera festival
Within the framework of the Athens Festival
Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni based on a scenario by Auguste Mariette
Opéra comique in four acts
New production within the framework of the Athens Festival
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
based on the homonymous short story by Prosper Mérimée
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
10, 11, 12, 15 June 2016 / 21.00
Conductors Director Set - Video - Lighting Costumes Choreography Chorus Master Myron Michailidis – Elias Voudouris
Enrico Castiglione
Enrico Castiglione
Sonia Cammarata
Fotis Diamantopoulos
Agathangelos Georgakatos
Verdi’s Aida is usually related to the great wealth of Pharaonic Egypt and is mostly
known for its impressive "triumphant march" of the Egyptians. However, the theme
of the opera reveals, as it so often happens, human beings struggling with their
intense emotions.
Conducted by the GNO's Artistic Director, Myron Michailidis and Elias Voudouris,
the opera will be shown in a new production by the GNO originating from the
celebrated Taormina Opera Festival and is directed by the experienced Italian
director Enrico Castiglione who is known for rendering his productions a quality of
film-making as well as a realistic point of view.
Aida Radamès Amneris Amonasro Ramfis King High Priestess Messenger 4
Cellia Kostea – Anda-Louise Bogza
΄ Ferrada
Dario di Vietri – Sebastian
Elena Gabouri – Elena Cassian
Kiril Manolov – Aris Argyris
Tassos Apostolou
Dimitris Kassioumis
Lenia Safiropoulou – Voula Amiradaki
Charalambos Velissarios
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
24, 26, 27, 29 July / 21.00
Conductor Director Set - Costumes Video projection design Lighting Movement Chorus master Children’s chorus mistress Lukas Karytinos
Stephen Langridge
George Souglides
Thomas Bergmann – Silbersalz Film GmbH
Giuseppe di Iorio
Dan O’ Neill
Agathangelos Georgakatos
Mata Katsouli
Carmen, one of the most emblematic operas, still challenges its audience as much as
when it was first staged, 140 years ago. The eponymous heroine defends her freedom
and her right to choose her lovers instead of her being chosen by them. The most
popular opera of the French repertoire, featuring wonderful arias and superb choruses,
will be conducted by Lukas Karytinos and directed by the distinguished British director
and Artistic Director of the Göteborg Opera, Stephen Langridge.
Carmen Don José Escamillo Micaëla Zuniga Moralès Frasquita Mercédès Dancaïre Remendado Rinat Shaham – Géraldine Chauvet
t.b.a. – Dimitris Paksoglou
Dionyssis Sourbis – Omar Kamata
Saioa Hernandez – Anna Stylianaki
Petros Magoulas
Dionysos Tsantinis – Nikos Kotenidis
Maria Mitsopoulou – Maria Kokka
Eleni Davou – Diamandi Kritsotaki
tba – Kostis Rasidakis
Alex Tsilogiannis – Christos Kechris
With the Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of the GNO
With the Orchestra, Chorus, Ballet and Children’s Chorus of the GNO within
the framework of its educational programme
In Italian with english and greek surtitles
TICKET PRICES: Upper Tier €25, C Zone €45, B Zone €55, A Zone €60. VIP Zones B & D €85,
VIP Zone C €100/ Children & students €15. Presale starts on 17 May 2016
In French with english and greek surtitles
TICKET PRICES: Upper Tier €25, C Zone €45, B Zone €55, A Zone €60. VIP Zones B & D €85,
VIP Zone C €100/ Children & students €15. Presale starts on 24 June 2016
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Music Theatre
Ballet
THE GNO ALTERNATIVE STAGE
PRESENTS WORKS BY JANI CHRISTOU
LI N K S
Within the framework of the programme "Metamorphosis: The SNFCC
to the World"
The GNO Alternative Stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
25 June 2016
Conductor Director Art installation Cast Vladimiros Symeonidis
Alexandros Efklidis
Alexandros Psychoulis
Aris Servetalis - Lenio Liatsou - Greta Papa
Jani Christou (1926-1970) was one of the most important personalities of the
international music avant-garde. By combining improvisation, stage action and
philosophical reflection, Christou pursued the traces of the avant-garde creating, thus,
a particularly idiosyncratic and beguiling musical universe. In its first production, the
newly-founded GNO Alternative Stage collaborates with the distinguished ensemble
of contemporary music, dissonArt, and with the Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra
and mounts two crucial works taken from the corpus of Jani Christou. The Strychnine
Lady (1967) is based on the composer’s recollection of dreams and upon Carl Young’s
psychoanalysis, the two of them making up a stage entity in which actors and musicians
involve the audience into an enthralling, and at the same time inscrutable, co-creation.
Anaparastasis III (The Pianist), (1968) is also a work of the composer’s late period and
one of the most popular of his entire oeuvre. The figure of the pianist, interpreted
alternately by Aris Servetalis and Lenio Liatsou, becomes the “tool” through which
the composer explores the mystic and dreamy rituals of artistic meta-praxis. The
art installation accompanying the works is created by Alexandros Psychoulis and the
production is directed by Alexandros Efklidis.
The concert will take place within the framework of “Metamorphosis: The SNFCC”
to the World, a four-day avant-garde cultural programme at the Stavros Niarchos
Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) hosting artists and programmes from all over
the world and with free entrance for the audience.
With the participation of the dissonArt ensemble of contemporary music and the
Athens Youth Symphony Orchestra (AYSO)
Andonis Foniadakis / J. S. Sebastian Bach – G. F. Handel – J. Tarride
Kalamata International Dance Festival
Dance Megaron – Main Hall
15 & 16 July 2016 / 22.00
Choreography Music Sets diligence Costumes Lighting Sound design Andonis Foniadakis - APOTOSOMA
J. S. Bach, G. F. Händel, J. Tarride
Andonis Foniadakis - APOTOSOMA & Sakis Birbilis
Tassos Sofroniou
Sakis Birbilis
Julien Tarride
The show of the internationally acclaimed, new Ballet Director of the GNO, Andonis
Foniadakis, based upon the music of two leading Baroque music composers, Johann
Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Händel, inaugurates Kalamata’s International
Dance Festival, in the wake of the immense hit of its shows in Athens.
The choreography of LINKS makes up a landscape in which the elements of fantasy, the
subconscious and mysticism alternate and enter into a discourse with blunt realism,
creating, thus, the ideal “habitat” into which the two composers encounter each
other; they never met throughout their lives despite the fact that they were born in
the same year – 1685 – and in neighbouring towns. The major success of the GNO
Ballet participates into the official programme of the most important Dance Festival
in Greece.
The Greek National Opera expresses its gratitude to GEA for its kind contribution with regard
to the related rights of the music.
Performances at: The pianist 18.30 & 19.15 & 00.00 / The Strychnine Lady 20.30 & 00.30
An exclusive donation by
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Free admission upon priority coupons
Info www.snfcc.org
TICKET PRICES
€15
Students, reduced €12
Presale at the Kalamata Municipal Cultural Centre
http://kalamatadancefestival.gr/
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Artistic Events
GNO Dance School
THE GREEK NATIONAL OPER A
CELEBR ATES THE WORLD MUSIC DAY
AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM
OF CONTEMPOR ARY ART
PR E S E NTATI O N O F TH E
PRO FE S S I O N A L DA N C E SC H OO L
O F TH E G R E E K N ATI O N A L O PE R A
21 June 2016
CONCERT OF CONTEMPORARY OPERA
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE GNO SOLOISTS
Loft of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) / 21.30
Olympia Theatre
1 & 2 July 2016 / 20.00
This is the annual presentation of the Professional Dance School of the GNO, in which
the School’s students present their own creations as well as pieces of the classical and
contemporary repertoire taught at the School under its Director, Yannis Dontsakis.
The audience will have the opportunity of getting to know tomorrow’s dancers and
coming into direct contact with the creative aspect of the younger generation.
The Greek National Opera celebrates the World Music Day with a grand
concert, at the loft of the National Museum of Contemporary Art at Fix.
Distinguished soloists will sing arias and duets of contemporary operas of the
20th and 21st centuries, welcoming the new Athens museum that in future
will neighbour with the new premises of the GNO, at the SNFCC, along
Syngrou Avenue.
Sponsored by
The GNO has secured special car parking prices for ticket holders of its shows at the Olympia Theatre. Upon
showing your ticket you pay € 5,00 for parking your car in the of the collaborating parking lot in the vicinity
of Olympia Theatre.
«EUROPRAXIS – ENGINEERING PARKOMAT AE» - Zalogou 3, Athens. Tel. 210 380 0860
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Free entrance upon priority coupons.
Info www.nationalopera.gr & www.emst.gr
Free admission upon priority coupons distributed at the box offices of the Olympia Theatre one hour before
the performances.
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E V E NT S AT TH E V I S ITO R S ’ C E NTR E
O F TH E S N FC C
In view of moving to its new premises in 2016, the Greek National Opera
presents a series of small-scale events at the Visitor’s Center of the
construction site of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
(SNFCC). At the same time, it offers educational programs and a variety
of activities for all ages. At the Visitors’ Center the public is offered the
opportunity to see the worksite up close and learn about the technical
details of the construction and the project, as well as the SNFCC’s mission.
Admission is free to the public.
Concerts
POCKET CONCERT OF THE
GNO
5 June 2016 at 19.00
Participants
Vassiliki Karagianni (soprano),
Dionyssis Sourbis (baritone),
Frixos Mortzos (piano)
OPERA GALA WITH THE GNO
STARS
3 July 2016 at 20.30
Participants
Tassos Apostolou (bass),
Vassiliki Karagianni (soprano),
Maria Mitsopoulou (soprano),
Dimitri Platanias (baritone),
Yannis Christopoulos (tenor),
Sophia Tamvakopoulou (piano)
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Educational Programmes
WORDS, SOUNDS, IMAGES:
SHORT STORIES ON JOURNEYS
For minors / 28 May 2016
at 10.00 (8-11 years)
and 12.30 (12-14 years)
For adults / 5 June 2016 at 11.00
Primarily inspired by Athens’ human
geography and its urban landscape,
as well as the SNFCC’s location,
this creative workshop aims to help
participants comprehend the notion of
coexistence, among the city’s residents.
The program is part of the educational
pilot activities of the GNO’s Educational
and Social Activities Department, which
are held at the SNFCC VC.
SNFCC Visitors Center
Evripidou & Doiranis Str., Kallithea, 176 74
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For your convenience, you can use the free shuttle bus service which connects the SNFCC Visitors Center with
Syggrou - Fix metro station (starting point from Kallirrois Avenue and arrival on Evripidou street - beginning of
the Esplanade). Scheduled routes will take place 30’ before and after each event.
Contact: visitorscenter@snfcc.org or +30 210 877 8396
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