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Electroacoustic composition workshops
In collaboration with the National Library of Greece
In what ways can a text be transmuted into a soundscape? What process can convert the two-dimensional pages of a book into the multi-dimensional soundscape that is composed in the reader’s mind? How can an artist turn printed works into a sound experience? These are some of the questions that will be raised in the new cycle of electroacoustic composition workshops titled Latent Space, having as its starting point the power of written word to trigger the creation of a variety of artistic products that can reshape/recompose its content.
The programme is aimed at young artists and invites them to a creative adventure of sensory experiences based on music and the art of sound, with the goal of bringing out the constant interaction between philosophy, legend, and musical creation. Inspired by the literature on Richard Wagner’s emblematic opera Die Walküre, which will be presented in March 2024 in the Stavros Niarchos Hall, participants will use written word as their primary material and will attempt to turn the landscapes and the events described in texts of their choice into their own pieces of acoustic music. The resulting compositions will be presented on the GNO Alternative Stage in June 2024.
This educational programme brings out the vital space that has been historically provided by books to the arts, and at the same time, the special importance of the co-habitation of the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera under the same roof. The programme is realized with the collaboration of these two organisations.
Planning/Implementation: Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris
Scientific associate: Themelis Glynatsis
Bio
Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris is a composer, sound artist and educator. He obtained a BA in Double Bass, and a BA in Electronic Music Composition from the Rotterdam Conservatoire, while following courses at the Institute of Sonology (Royal Conservatoire of The Hague) and at IRCAM (France). He continued with two MA studies: in Fine Arts (Spain) and in Creative Education (UK).
He did his PhD research at University of Sussex, being fully funded with a CHASE-AHRC scholarship. His PhD research has been awarded as one of the most innovative in the field of Art and Technology by the Leonardo Academic Journal (MIT Press). He teaches continuously in Higher Education since 2011 (Falmouth University, University of Sussex, University of Brighton, Ionian University). Since 2019 he teaches at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since 2012 he is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
His works have been presented, at among others: Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Holland Festival, Todays Arts, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Modern Body Festival, Kalamata International Dance Festival, The Athens Concert Hall, Onassis Foundation, Tectonics Festival, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.
Programme starts on: Thursday 21 Μarch 2024
Dates: Thursdays 21, 28 March, 4, 11, 18, 25 April, 9, 16, 23, 30 May, 4 and 5 June 2024
Presentation date: 6 June 2024
The selection of participants will be made after an open call that will be announced a month prior to the start of the workshops.
In collaboration with
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Interdisciplinary workshops for special education schools, teenagers, students with or without visual/hearing disability, and special or non-special education teachers
With interpretation in Greek Sign Language
What shape should the melody have? How does the circle sound and how does the square sound? Can rice paper play music? Does an everyday object have rhythm? Can I describe my favorite song with a piece of wire? In how many different ways can I tell the same story? If the warm and cold of colors were my body parts, what color would my dance be?
With kinetic, audio and visual games, we awaken our senses and develop communication tools that help us connect. By supporting and complementing each other, we create an artistic, experiential experience of inclusion.
The new cycle of interdisciplinary workshops Moving Soundscapes is aimed at special education schools, teenage students with or without visual/hearing disability, and special or non-special education teachers, and has multiple goals: to encourage the participation of teenagers with disability in artistic activities, enhance the self-efficacy of teenagers with or without disability, support inclusive education through non-verbal communication, cultivate collegiality within and without the school setting, provide inclusive learning tools, empower special and non-special education teachers, and raise awareness on issues of disability and art.
Using physical-experiential education through movement and improvisation exercises, musical tools of coordination and visual practices as their main instrument, the workshops will attempt to develop participants’ kinesthetic skills and expressivity through the enhancement of the mechanisms of reception, processing and composition of stimuli, regardless of the extent to which their senses are functional. Participants will understand the multisensory perception of knowledge by exploring the various ways, in which meanings/stimuli become perceived, and will discover the importance of physicality as a means of communication and dialogue.
Moving Soundscapes will be conducted in two phases: the first will be realized in schools, and the second on the premises of the Greek National Opera with experiential workshops, both for students and educators, as well as with meetings for educators with the goal of collecting feedback while also exploring with them theoretical approaches to inclusive techniques.
Planning/Implementation: Yiota Peklari, Vassia Zorbali,
Scientific associate: Natasa Chanta-Martin
Greek Sign Language Interpretation: Androniki Xanthopoulou
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Guitar Express returns again this year from the GNO Learning & Partcipation. Aiming at expression through music and using guitar, voice and songs as tools, the beloved workshop continues for the sixth year to explore new paths of knowledge and creativity, bringing back to the fore stories and songs from the past. The program, being a pleasant and relaxing detour to the routine of everyday life, includes weekly face-to-face musical meetings during which participants cultivate their musical perception, practice relaxation of body and mind, while studying and understanding the subject.
Planning/Implementation: Kiki Kerzeli
Scientific consultant: Ioanna Etmektsoglou
Day & Time: every Tuesday & Wednesday, 11.00 - 13.00
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Choreography workshop for children aged 10 to 12 years
In collaboration with the GNO Ballet
The new amazing workshop Do You Choreograph? is coming to offer children aged 10 to 12 years a singular music and movement experience full of emotions made of dance figures.
Classical ballet and the classical technique are based on terms and names well-known to professionals, e.g. grand jeté, pirouette, assemblé etc. But what happens when these terms get mixed with emojis depicting different mental states (joy, sorrow, anger, etc.)? A ballet dancer will have to perform all these instructions the moment each kid will choose the term or the emotion they want to be depicted.
A unique condition that will motivate children to unleash their imagination so as to improvise and choreograph human emotions under the guidance of a professional dancer. The workshop’s goal is to help participants acquire personal experience in the making of a choreography and understand dance as an inexhaustible way of expressing emotions.
Planning / Implementation: GNO Learning & Participation Department – GNO Ballet (Giannis Mitrakis, Marita Nikolitsa)
Age group: 10 to 12
Dates & hours: Sunday 10 March 2024
Hours: 10.00 - 11.30, 12.00 - 13.30
Applications open on: Monday 19 February 2024
Application deadline: Friday 1 March 2024
Applications can be submitted exclusively via the form you will find here.
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Dance workshop for children aged 4 to 12 years
What came first, music or movement? How can movement turn into sound? Does music dance? How can music motivate individuals?
GNO Learning & Participation invites children aged 4 to 12 years along with their parents to immerse themselves into an entertaining exploration of the qualities, senses and textures of movement triggered by the power of music. With the accompaniment of Kostas Yaxoglou on the piano and Alex Bove on the cello, Vitoria Kotsalou will urge participants to explore the relationship between music and movement and co-create their own choreography inspired by classical music and opera pieces.
Dancing alongside their parents, children will explore the different musical motifs that come together to form a music piece, will listen to each other through their bodies and the rhythm, and will discover the innumerable games than can result from the creative process and cultivate active listening and movement skills.
The workshop will be conducted over five weekly two-hour meetings and will come complete with the presentation of the artistic result in front of a live audience made up of the participants’ guests.
Planning/Implementation: Vitoria Kotsalou (dancer, choreographer)
Featuring the musicians: Kostas Yaxoglou (piano), Alex Bove (cello)
Age group: 4-12 years
Dates & time: 15, 22, 29 January, 5 and 12 February 2024, 18.00-20.00
You can submit your applications from 30 December 2023 to 10 January 2024 exclusively via the form you will find here.
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Artistic workshops cycle in Northern Evia
From September 2022 and for nearly a year, the Caravan Project followed Melisma, the year-long cycle of educational and artistic activities for persons of all ages that was realized in the wider region of Northern Evia, recording the workshops and personal stories of the people who took part in them. The Project tracked the compositional processes of a collective music-dance narration, which was turned into a performance titled Topos Ateliotos (Endless Land) and presented in Kechries, Northen Evia, on Sunday 16 July 2023, as well as on the GNO Alternative Stage on Sunday 17 September 2023.
The members of the film crew wandered across burnt-down and reborn areas, walking on trails and seeking legends and stories. They let themselves get carried away in adventurous encounters with the guardians of this land: a beekeeper who insistently harvests honey in the burnt forest, a monk who serenely reminisces on the miracle that saved the monastery from fire, a carpenter who reopened his carpentry shop, a retsina (variety of Greek wine) producer who is concerned about his future, a wood carver who carves burnt tree trunks transmuting the catastrophe into reborn, peculiar figurines, a horse whisperer who talks with animals.
The documentary composes an unseen geography of diverse narratives that shed light upon catastrophe and rebirth, challenging us to ponder on the symbiotic relationship between nature and civilisation.
Programme coordinator: Leonidas Panagopoulos
Implementation: Caravan Project (Stratis Vogiatzis, Dimitris Kourtis)
Presentation: Spring 2024
The programme was subsidized by the Ministry of Culture
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This year the GNO Learning & Participation Department is returning to Skiathos with an educational programme aimed at the island’s secondary education schools. The goal of this year’s series of workshops, which will last throughout April, is to quickly introduce children to the process of preparing a music theatre performance. This will be achieved through their meaningful collaboration with music professionals and active involvement in the rehearsals. During this creative journey, children will work together and co-create, sing, play, and learn how to interact with the audience.
The programme will come complete with the creation and presentation of an interactive musical performance featuring traditional folk and modern Greek songs, music and body percussion. The performance will take place on 26 April, at a venue that will be announced soon. The songs that will be heard in the performance will have been worked upon during the programme, and will revolve around themes like love, goals, dreams, and the beauty of youthful pursuits.
Planning, implementation: Antonis Vasileiadis (European percussion teacher, composer, music producer, performer), Giorgos Kasavetis (percussion composer)
In cooperation with the Municiplaity of Skiathos
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Tuesday, 09 July 2024 17:24
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The Greek National Opera visits Northern Evia
The GNO Learning & Participation will travel to Northern Evia, specifically to Limni and Loutra, Aidipsos, to present a three-day programme of events on the 18th, 19th, and 21st of July 2024. Admission to these events will be free for the public. The residents of these Municipalities, as well as visitors from the surrounding area, will have the chance to watch Stratis Vogiatzis and Dimitris Kourtis’ documentary That Day, as well as to enjoy two opera evenings featuring beloved arias and duets from well-known operas performed by sopranos Elena Kelesidi and Maria Mitsopoulou from the Greek National Opera. The three-day programme of events is part of the second cycle of educational and artistic activities of the Melisma programme, funded by the Ministry of Culture.
Having already been screened at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Open Horizons Category) and at the GNO Alternative Stage, the documentary That Day returns to where it started its journey. It is a cinematic portrayal of Melisma, a series of educational and artistic activities that were conducted by the Greek National Opera in Northern Evia, following the devastating wildfires of 2021. The documentary also uncovers the landscape through the lens of myths and stories. The directors kept a close eye on the creative development of the dance and music narrative Endless Land, which explores the themes of destruction and rebirth and was featured for the first time in July 2023, in Kechries, Evia. At the same time, they wandered through both the charred and revitalized terrain, walking along trails and seeking out myths and stories. They got carried away in adventurous encounters with the guardians of this land: a carpenter who rebuilds his burnt carpentry workshop, a woodcarver who carves scorched tree trunks, transforming destruction into new and peculiar forms, and a horse whisperer who converses with animals. The documentary will be screened on Thursday, the 18th of July 2024, at 20.45 at the open air cinema theatre of Limni “Elymnion”, and on Sunday, the 21st of July 2024 at 21.00 at Cine Apollon in Loutra, Aidipsos.
The renowned protagonists from the Greek National Opera Elena Kelesidi and Maria Mitsopoulou will offer us two unique opera evenings featuring beloved arias and duets from the global repertoire on Friday 19 July 2024 at 20.45 at the Heroes Square in Limni, and on Sunday 21 July 2024 at 22.00 at Cine Apollon in Loutra, Aidipsos. Marilena Souri will be accompanying them on the piano.
Soprano Elena Kelesidi has starred in numerous productions and artistic events. Moreover, she has performed numerous leading roles at the world’s most prestigious theatres, including the Vienna State Opera, New York Metropolitan Opera, and Opera de Bastille, as well as in important venues in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Amsterdam, Zurich and Tokyo, and significant festivals.
Soprano Maria Mitsopoulou has performed innumerable roles and is always expanding her repertoire. Furthermore, she has collaborated with the Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Halls, the Athens State Orchestra, the Camerata, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, and the Orchestra of Colours. Abroad she has performed in concerts in Lima (Peru), Parma, Turin, London, and Catania.
Pianist Marilena Souri has given solo recitals and chamber music concerts in many European countries. She has also collaborated as a soloist with the LUCA Chamber Orchestra and Sinfonietta Hellenica.
Learning & Participation Department of the Greek National Opera
The Greek National Opera visits Northern Evia
18, 19 and 21 July 2024
Screening of the documentary That Day
Directed by: Stratis Vogiatzis, Dimitris Kourtis
18 July 2024 · Starts at: 20.45 · Open air cinema | Cinema theatre of Limni “Elymnion”
21 July 2024 · Starts at: 21.00 · Cine Apollon in Loutra, Aidipsos
Opera evening
Featuring: Elena Kelesidou, Maria Mitsopoulou, Piano: Marilena Souri
19 July 2024 · Starts at: 20.45 · Heroes Square, Limni
21 July 2024 · Starts at: 22.00 · Cine Apollon in Loutra, Aidipsos
For the events taking place at the cinema theater of Limni “Elymnion” and Cine Apollon in Loutra, Aidipsos, admission will be free upon priority vouchers that will be distributed one hour prior to the start of the shows at the cinema entrances.
The Opera Evening on the Heroes Square in Limni on 19 July 2024 will be held without entrance tickets.
In collaboration
Melisma is funded by the Ministry of Culture
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Κύκλος βιωματικών εργαστηρίων εκπαιδευτών σε ζητήματα 65+
Μάιος 2024 – Ιούλιος 2025
Ο βιωματικών εργαστηρίων εκπαιδευτών σε ζητήματα 65+ απευθύνεται σε κύκλους του εκπαιδευτικού πολιτισμού, σε εκπαιδευτικούς καλλιτεχνικούς και μη τυπικής εκπαίδευσης, αλλά και σε όσους επιθυμούν να έρθουν σε επαφή με την καλλιτεχνική εκπαίδευση. Με το μουσικό θέατρο, τη μουσική και το θέατρο, οι συμμετέχοντες/ουσες θα αποκτήσουν την απαραίτητη τεχνογνωσία ενσωμάτωσης των εννοιών της συμπερίληψης και της προστασίας στον σχεδιασμό, την οργάνωση και την υλοποίηση εκπαιδευτικών δράσεων για ενήλικες 65+.
Τα πρώτα εργαστήρια πραγματοποιήθηκαν τον Μάιο του 2024 στο Ναύπλιο (Φουγάρο – Κέντρο Τέχνης), συνεχίστηκαν στην Καβάλα (ΔΗΠΕΘΕ Καβάλας) και στη Βέροια (ΔΗΠΕΘΕ Βέροιας), ενώ μέχρι τον Ιούλιο του 2025 που έχουν ακόμη κάνει έξι επιπλέον προορισμούς (Κέρκυρα, Μυτιλήνη, Κρήτη, Θεσσαλονίκη, Βόλο, Πάτρα). Παράλληλα θα γίνουν τρεις κύκλοι εκπαιδεύσεων στην Αττική και τρία από αποστάσεως εκπαιδευτικά εργαστήρια για όσους επιθυμούν να συμμετάσχουν διαδικτυακά.
Κύκλος βιοματικών εργαστηρίων σε ζητήματα ΑμεΑ
Μάιος 2024 – Ιούλιος 2025
Ο κύκλος βιωματικών εργαστηρίων εκπαίδευσης εκπαιδευτών σε ζητήματα ΑμεΑ απευθύνεται σε επαγγελματίες του πολιτισμού, εκπαιδευτικούς καλλιτεχνικούς και μη τυπικής εκπαίδευσης, καθώς και σε όσους ενδιαφέρονται να εστιάσουν σε ζητήματα συμπερίληψης και προσβασιμότητας. Τα εργαστήρια αποσκοπούν στην ανάπτυξη και τη διάχυση της τεχνογνωσίας για έναν περισσότερο συμπεριληπτικό και προσιτό τρόπο στον σχεδιασμό, την οργάνωση και την υλοποίηση εκπαιδευτικών δράσεων που απευθύνονται σε ομάδες ΑμεΑ και μεικτές.
Ο πρώτος κύκλος εργαστηρίων πραγματοποιήθηκε τον Ιούνιο του 2024 στη Βέροια (ΔΗΠΕΘΕ Βέροιας), ενώ οι επόμενοι κύκλοι θα γίνουν σε εννέα ακόμη γεωγραφικές περιοχές της Ελλάδας κατά τη διάρκεια της καλλιτεχνικής περιόδου 2024/25. Παράλληλα, θα γίνουν και τρεις ακόμη εξ αποστάσεως κύκλοι ανοιχτοί σε ακόμα περισσότερους συμμετέχοντες/ουσες.
Εκπαίδευση προσωπικού της ΕΛΣ σε ζητήματα 65+ και ΑμεΑ
Οκτώβριος 2024 – Ιούνιος 2025
Επενδύοντας στην ουσιαστική ένταξη των εννοιών της προστασίας και της συμπερίληψης στους κόλπους της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής, το προσωπικό του θεάτρου θα παρακολουθήσει εκπαιδευτικά σεμινάρια με στόχο την αφομοίωση της τεχνογνωσίας συμπερίληψη ατόμων με αναπηρία και ενηλίκων 65+ με στόχο τη βελτιστοποίηση των υπηρεσιών του κοινού, αλλά και της συνολικής λειτουργίας του θεάτρου. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, οι συμμετέχοντες/ουσες θα αναπτυχθούν πρακτικές χωρίς αποκλεισμούς στους τομείς της υποδοχής του κοινού καθώς και του γενικότερου καλλιτεχνικού σχεδιασμού, ενώ ταυτόχρονα θα εκπαιδευτεί και θα ενδυναμωθεί σε ζητήματα κινητικότητας και επικοινωνίας.
Φορέας χρηματοδότησης των εκπαιδεύσεων εκπαιδευτών και στελεχών της ΕΛΣ είναι το Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού, στο πλαίσιο του Έργου: «ΥΠΟ.1.1.6 Προσέλκυση ατόμων 65+ και άτομα με αναπηρία σε δράσεις της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής», που αναπτύσσεται στο πλαίσιο του Εθνικού Σχεδίου Ανάκαμψης και Ανθεκτικότητας «Ελλάδα 2.0» με τη χρηματοδότηση της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης – NextGenerationEU.
Συντονισμός & Εκπαιδευτική Επιμέλεια του Έργου «SUB.1.1.6 Προσέλκυση ατόμων 65+ και ατόμων με αναπηρία σε δράσεις της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής»: Κική Κέρζελη
Βοηθός Συντονιστής Έργου: «SUB.1.1.6 Προσέλκυση ατόμων 65+ και δράσεις ατόμων με αναπηρία σε θέσεις της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής»: Γιώργος Παπαδάκης
Μέγας Δωρητής Εκπαιδευτικών & Κοινωνικών Δράσεων ΕΛΣ
The educational programme involving interdisciplinary artistic and pedagogical activities 3rd Bell Opera is back for a fifth consecutive year, sponsored by Piraeus Bank. The programme invites primary education educators and students to take part in a unique introduction to the captivating world of music theatre. It is aimed at primary schools in the Attica Region, and its goal is to actively involve participants in the creative process of preparing and presenting a music theatre performance using modern and groundbreaking tools. The final performance is scheduled to take place in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, on 1 June 2025.
The 3rd Bell Opera programme runs for a fifth consecutive year. It is sponsored by Piraeus Bank as part of its multifaceted Corporate Social Responsibility programme, “EQUALL—For a Society of Equal People,” and falls under the Young Generation pillar.
During the 2024/25 season, the programme will focus on the new music theatre piece Journey to the Land of the Ugly, exploring the concepts of inclusion, harmonious co-existence through respect for individuality, acceptance, and appreciation of diversity. The work was composed by Trevor Grahl, Andriana Minou penned the libretto, and Theano Metaxa is responsible for the stage direction. The musical ensemble will be conducted by Kyriaki Kountouri. The creative team of educators/artists comes complete with Sofia Ketetzian (soloist) and Ilias Vogiatzidakis (actor).
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Turandot, Giacomo Puccini’s remarkable opera, inspires the new educational performance programme for kindergartens in Attica, Travelling with Turandot. This programme will take children aged between 4 and 6 on a fascinating journey into the world of music and the other arts that make up opera.
Travelling with Turandot, an interactive performance based on the Italian composer’s last opera, will be the basis for a series of activities, including puppet theatre, music and movement exercises, and active listening, through which children will be introduced to the skills of voice as a musical instrument and explore the potential of their own voice. In addition, participants will have the chance to become familiar with the libretto and selected melodies from the opera Turandot, play with rhythmic motifs, and get an up-close introduction to the distinct characteristics of musical instruments such as the double bass, metallophone, and bendir.
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A new artistic hands-on programme titled The Cat has been added to the activities for primary education schools.
The Cat, a mini operetta based on a fairy tale of the same name from Eastern Thrace, is the foundation of the new educational programme, in which primary school students will get actively involved in the process of creating and executing a musical performance under the guidance of three musician-animators.
The programme aims to stimulate children’s creativity by involving them in the preparation of an artistic work, cultivating their critical thinking and self-observation, enhancing their concentration, memory, and physical control, boosting their confidence and empathy, and encouraging them to foster collaboration and participation.
The programme will be piloted in five schools located in the First Regional Division of Athens.
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A digital educational platform for secondary education educators and students.
What exactly is opera? Is it the singing, music, drama, and dance? A phantasmagoria, a work lasting only a few minutes, an ancient drama revival, a comedy, an epic endeavour? Or, could it be, perhaps, all of the above?
OperaBox, the Greek National Opera’s digital education platform, launched in the 2023/24 season, as part of the educational programme for secondary education schools Opera Interactively Into Schools, is available online, inviting individuals of all ages to a journey across the past, present, and future of opera. Using interactive activities and applications, new and archival audiovisual material, musicological and historical texts, as well as the imaginative video game Helen of Solidarity, OperaBox serves as an educational tool for formal and non-formal education that enables the introduction of teenagers into the world of opera and the familiarization of students and professors with the preparation of music theatre performances.
For secondary education educators who want to enhance their knowledge of using OperaBox in the classroom, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) will support more than 600 free online training seminars across Greece.
The programme Opera Interactively Into Schools was co-funded by Greece and the European Social Fund through the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education, and Lifelong Learning”.
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Tuesday, 22 October 2024 14:00
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Free concerts at Care Centres for the Elderly across Attica
As part of the Project “SUB.1.1.6 Attracting individuals aged 65 and over and individuals with disabilities to events of the Greek National Opera”
Free concerts at elderly care centres across Attica continue for the 2024/25 season, aiming to connect seniors with the enchanting world of opera and promote active aging.
Through a rich repertoire of arias and duets from popular operas and operettas, as well as songs from the Greek interwar period, Rafi Music Theatre Company (Anastasia Kotsali, Leto Messini) and accordionist Kostas Zigkeridis will take the residents of Care Centres for the Elderly on a journey back in time, encouraging them to activate their memory, sing, and dance. The programme also aims at giving seniors a chance to engage in creative activities that foster socialization and interaction, as well as at connecting them with the art opera and contemporary social life.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture is the funding body for the Project “SUB.1.1.6 Attracting individuals aged 65 and over and individuals with disabilities to events of the Greek National Opera”. This project is part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0.” and is funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU.
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Style galant
Quartets for flute, violins, viola da gamba, and harpsichord
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Book, music, lyrics: Jonathan Larson
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Karagiozis as Rigoletto
Alexandros Melissinos / Dimitris Dimopoulos
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I Want to See the Pope!
Theophrastos Sakellaridis
December 2025 & January 2026
