CHOREOGRAPHY
Nacho Duato

MUSIC
Pedro Alcalde, Sergio Caballero, David Darling

SCENOGRAPHY
Jaffar Chalabi

COSTUMES
Nacho Duato

LIGHTING
Brad Fields

PRODUCTION
Carlos Iturrioz – Mediart Producciones SL (Spain)

With the GNO Principal dancers, Soloists, Demi-Soloists and Corps de Ballet

Greek National Opera - Stavros Niarchos Hall
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Starts at: 20.00 (Sunday: 18.30)  |   

CONDUCTOR
Pierre Dumoussaud

DIRECTOR
Katie Mitchell

REVIVAL DIRECTOR
Robin Tebbutt

CHORUS MASTER
Agathangelos Georgakatos

ENRICO
Tassis Christoyannis

With the GNO Orchestra and Chorus

Greek National Opera - Stavros Niarchos Hall
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Italian Opera Cycle

Starts at: 20.00 (Sundays: 18.30) |

LIBRETTO

Yannis Svolos, based on Konstantinos Christomanos' novel of the same title 

CONDUCTOR
Nicolas Vassiliou

DIRECTOR
Simos Kakalas

SETS
Kenny Mc Lelan

COSTUMES
Claire Bracewell

LIGHTING
Panagiotis Lambis

CONSTANTIN CHRISTOMANOS
Arkadios Rakopoulos

VERGINIA
Theodora Baka

NIKOS
Yannis Kalyvas

LIOLIA
Stelina Apostolopoulou

AUNTIE ELENGO
Julia Souglakou

MISSIS EVRIDIKI
Sofia Kyanidou

MISSIS DIMITRAENA
Lydia Angelopoulou

MISSIS ARISTIDAENA
Margarita Syngeniotou

BIBIKA
Lydia Zervanou

MIMIS
Dionysos Tsantinis

DINOS
Yannis Filias

DOCTOR, PRIEST
Dimitris Nalbandis

BEADLE, POLICEMAN
Kostis Mavrogenis

With the participation of Ergon Ensemble 

Ticket prices: €18 , €25 
Students, children: €15

Greek National Opera Alternative Stage
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

First presentation / Commissioned by the GNO Alternative Stage 

Starts at: 20.30 | 

In Athens, during the Belle Époque, Nikos and Verginia, a newlywed couple, have set up their home at the working-class district of Gargaretta. He works as a carpenter. She, many years older than him, has a failing health, as a result of a miscarriage in her first pregnancy. When at some point she collapses, young Liolia, a lovely, beautiful, sixteen-year-old girl is brought home to help. Under the eye of helpless Virginia, her hale husband and the inexperienced girl are romantically attracted to each other. During the wild festivities of the Athenian Carnival, the two of them come closer. Verginia suffers in silence, but out of love, she makes it easier for them to be together, by sending them to the spring fields to bring flowers. The healthy youths succumb to the irresistible calling of their desire and romantically unite in nature. The malicious neighbors gossip incessantly and the sick woman, sensing what is going on, surrenders to the embrace of death. One evening, as she wakes up, she sees the couple cuddled in the moonlight, becomes upset and passes away. A few months after the funeral, Nikos marries the pregnant Liolia but the past is haunting their relationship. The unfortunate young woman gives birth to a seven-months premature baby girl, pale like a wax doll, who looks like the deceased Verginia. Despite her supplications at the dead woman’s tomb, the newborn dies. While hopes for a new life arise, Nikos is stabbed to death by a friend who had long coveted Liolia.

In the dusty poor districts of a deceptively idyllic Athens, the lyrical and emotionally invasive words of Christomanos unfold in a pessimistic mood the usual love story of some humble people until its tragic ending. Inspired by his writing, the composer remolds the Wax Doll into a music full of symbols, lyricism and a passionate lust for life, while revealing to us the pace at which Nature alternates death with resurrection.

CONDUCTORS
Marios Papadopoulos (23, 27, 29, 31/3 & 12/4)
Giorgos Balatsinos (14, 17, 20/4)

DIRECTOR
Alexandros Efklidis

DRAMATURG-COLLABORATING DIRECTOR
Angela-Kleopatra Saroglou

SETS
Yannis Katranitsas

COSTUMES
Ioanna Tsami

LIGHTING
Melina Mascha

MOVEMENT
Konstantinos Rigos

CHORUS MASTER
Agathangelos Georgakatos

Greek National Opera Stavros Niarchos Hall
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Mozart Cycle

Starts at: 19.30 (Sundays: 18.30) |