MUSIC
Lena Platonos

ORCHESTRATION
Lena Platonos - Stergios Tsirliagos

LIBRETTO
Giorgos Voloudakis

DIRECTOR
Katerina Petsatodi

ANIMATION
Eirini Vianelli

SET DESIGNER
Evangelia Therianou

COSTUMES
Alexia Theodoraki

SOUND DESIGN - PROGRAMMING - MIX
Stergios Tsirliagos

VIDEO MAPPING
Michalis Kloukinas

ΕMPEROR
Nikos Kotenidis

COURTIER, DEATH
Giorgos Roupas

NIGHTINGALE
Marilena Striftompola

FISHERMAN, COURTIER, ΤΕCHNICIAN,
Yannis Filias 

NIGHTINGALE'S FRIEND, TECHNICIAN
Niki Chaziraki

VIOLONIST
Dimitris Nalbandis

NARRATOR
Maria Skoula

Ticket prices
Evenings & Weekends: 12€, 15€
Students: 10€

Starts at
Morning performances (17 & 24/2): 11.00 | 
Afternoon performances (1 & 8/12): 18.30 |  
Evening performances (20, 21, 22/2): 20.30 | 

Following the great success of Thodoris Ampazis’ opera Prince Ivan and the Firebird, the children’s opera of Lena Platonos, whose songs of Lilipoupoli have raised generations of children, sets the bar of expectations even higher.

Lena Platonos wrote The emperor’s nightingale, a “musical fairy tale with operatic elements”, as she has described it, in 1989, based on Hans Kristian Andersen’s fairy tale of the same name, to respond to the wish of counter-tenor Aris Christofellis. The libretto was written by the poet-biologist Giorgos Voloudakis. The work’s recording featured top performers, such as Aris Christofellis, Savina Yannatou, Spyros Sakkas, Fragiskos Voutsinas etc. Platonos characterized the work’s music as neo-impressionistic.

Andersen’s fairy tale morphs into a parable about the relationship between art and technology, which nowadays is more topical than ever. The work’s modern-day message, the co-existence of analog and electronic music, the irresistible melodic lines of Platonos and the skilled vocal writing make The emperor’s nightingale an ideal opportunity to acquaint children with the magical world of the lyric art.

CONDUCTOR
Lukas Karytinos

ARTISTIC SUPERVISOR
George Hadjidakis

LIGHTING SUPERVISOR
Dimitris Koutas

SOUND DESIGN
Zacharias Stamoulos

CHILDREN'S CHORUS MISTRESS
Konstantina Pitsiakou

With:
Alkinoos Ioannidis (The Martlet's Tale), Dimitra Selemidou, Ioulia Spanou (Sweet Movie)

With the GNO Orchestra and Children's Chorus

Ticket prices: €15, €20, €25, €30, €35, €40, €45, €60
Students, reduced: €12
Limited visibility: €10

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

Manos Hadjidakis Cycle

Starts at: 20.00 |

Ticket prices: 10  €
Students, children: 5  €

Starts at: 20.30 | 

FIRST PRESENTATION

LIBRETTO
Marivita Grammatikaki

ORCHESTRATION
Yannis Antonopoulos

CONDUCTOR
Katia Molfesi

DIRECTOR

Io Voulgaraki

SET - COSTUMES 
Magdalini Avgerinou

With the participation of  the Athens Municipality Symphony Orchestra 

In collaboration with the GNO Youth Opera

Ticket prices
Weekdays for schools: €10 
Afternoon performances: €12, €15 
Students: €8 

Starts at
Morning performances (26,27/3): 11.00 | 
Afternoon performances (28, 29/3): 20.30 | 

“The moment when a Maestro and an orchestra are preparing for a big concert, restless Viola runs away to the unknown and free world of jazz. She falls in love, revolts and is tested to discover that Music is one and the same and that it is us who build the walls between us. Viola’s strange adventure, sometimes funny sometimes hard, in a libretto by Marivita Grammatikaki and with music by Thodoris Economou, walks the line between different musical genres and styles and takes both children and adults on a trip toward the beauty that is hidden inside us, when we overcome our stereotypes and fears” Io Voulgaraki.

In a music city, a maestro and an orchestra are preparing for a big concert. The music city, however, is divided in two parts. One the one hand, there is the classical part, with its rigid rules, and on the other hand, there is the jazz part with its freedom of improvisation. Could these ends ever find common ground and melodies, and be united? What role will the maestro play? The instruments of the orchestra morph into human characters and form a contemporary society.