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Στο πλαίσιο της εξωστρέφειας και της σύνδεσης της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής με το κοινό της περιφέρειας, οι Εκπαιδευτικές & Κοινωνικές Δράσεις της ΕΛΣ ξεκινούν φέτος μία νέα συνεργασία με τον Δήμο Τήνου εγκαινιάζοντας δύο νέα καλλιτεχνικά και παιδαγωγικά προγράμματα, το Rosa Das Rosas για τα σχολεία πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης του νησιού και το Τίκιτακ τίκιτακ για τους ενήλικες 65+ δημότες.
Rosa Das Rosas
Το πρόγραμμα απευθύνεται στους μαθητές της Δ’ και Ε’ τάξης της πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης προσκαλώντας τους σε μία συναρπαστική περιπλάνηση στη μεσαιωνική και την παραδοσιακή μουσική. Κεντρικός στόχος του Rosa das rosas είναι η επαφή των παιδιών με βασικές μουσικές δεξιότητες, αλλά και η ουσιαστική, ενεργή συμμετοχή τους στον συναρπαστικό χώρο του μουσικού θεάτρου. Κατά τη διάρκεια του προγράμματος, οι μαθητές θα γνωρίσουν μουσικά όργανα της μεσαιωνικής εποχής και -μέσα από σύγχρονες παιδαγωγικές πρακτικές- θα αναπτύξουν τις φωνητικές, ρυθμικές και γλωσσικές τους δεξιότητες, θα εκπαιδευτούν στο ομαδικό τραγούδι και θα μάθουν να παράγουν μουσική χρησιμοποιώντας το σώμα τους ως κρουστό (body percussion). Παράλληλα οφέλη της δημιουργικής διαδικασίας αποτελούν η συνεργασία, η γόνιμη ανταλλαγή ιδεών και η διεύρυνση των καλλιτεχνικών τους οριζόντων.
Τα εργαστήρια θα ολοκληρωθούν με τη δημιουργία και την παρουσίαση μουσικής παράστασης με ελεύθερη είσοδο για το κοινό την Πέμπτη 30 Μαρτίου 2023.
Σχεδιασμός – υλοποίηση: Ζωή Δημοπούλου (μουσικοπαιδαγωγός), Κατερίνα Νταμάνη (μουσικοπαιδαγωγός), Ειρήνη Μπιλίνη- Μωραΐτη (μουσικοπαιδαγωγός), Αλίκη Σιούστη (μουσικοπαιδαγωγός)
Καλλιτεχνικός συνεργάτης: Tobias Schlierf
Έναρξη εργαστηρίου: Πέμπτη 2 Μαρτίου 2023
Τικιτάκ Τικιτάκ
Εργαστήριο ομαδικού τραγουδιού και δημιουργίας ιστοριών για ενήλικες 65+
Το νέο πρόγραμμα απευθύνεται σε ενήλικες 65 και άνω και αντλεί την έμπνευσή του από πολυαγαπημένα τραγούδια της ελληνικής οπερέτας και του ελληνικού ελαφρού τραγουδιού, στοχεύοντας στη δημιουργία μίας πρωτότυπης παράστασης μουσικού θεάτρου. Οι συμμετέχοντες, με έμπνευση από τους στίχους των τραγουδιών, θα πλάσουν μικρές ιστορίες, τις οποίες θα συνθέσουν σε ένα μελωδικό ψηφιδωτό φτιαγμένο από θραύσματα του χθες, του σήμερα και του αύριο. Το τραγούδι, η ενεργή μουσική συμμετοχή, η κατασκευή ιστοριών μέσα από προφορικά παιχνίδια και ασκήσεις δημιουργικής αφήγησης και γραφής, καθώς και πληθώρα μουσικών και θεατρικών δραστηριοτήτων μοιράσματος και ενδυνάμωσης της ομάδας, είναι μόνο λίγα από τα εργαλεία που θα αξιοποιηθούν κατά την υλοποίηση του εργαστήριου. Το Τίκιτακ τίκιτακ θα πραγματοποιηθεί σε δέκα συναντήσεις και θα ολοκληρωθεί με την παρουσίαση -με τη συμμετοχή μικρού μουσικού συνόλου- της από κοινού αφήγησης των συμμετεχόντων σε μία καινούρια παράσταση μουσικού θεάτρου που θα προκύψει από τη βιωματική διαδρομή των συμμετεχόντων στην πολυαγαπημένη ελληνική οπερέτα.
Η συμμετοχή στο πρόγραμμα δεν προϋποθέτει πρότερες γνώσεις στη μουσική.
Σχεδιασμός: Κική Κέρζελη
Υλοποίηση: Κατερίνα Νταμάνη (μουσικοπαιδαγωγός), Ζωή Δημοπούλου (μουσικοπαιδαγωγός), Αλίκη Σιούστη (μουσικοπαιδαγωγός)
Έναρξη εργαστηρίου: Πέμπτη 2 Μαρτίου 2023
Ημέρες & ώρες: 2, 3, 9, 10, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 Μαρτίου 2023, 18.00 – 20.00 & 31 Μαρτίου 2023 (η ώρα του τελευταίου εργαστηρίου θα ανακοινωθεί προσεχώς) Ημερομηνία & ώρα παράστασης: 31 Μαρτίου 2023 (η ώρα θα ανακοινωθεί προσεχώς)
Υποβολή συμμετοχής έως τις 2 Μαρτίου 2023 στα τηλέφωνα 213 088 5787, 6984645126 (Κική Κέρζελη)
Σε συνεργασία με τον Δήμο Τήνου
Educational workshop for deaf or hard of hearing persons.
Accessible to the participants through interpretation in Greek Sign Language.
This new series of educational activities aims at laying the groundwork for expanding the boundaries of hearing and turning it from a listening experience into a physical one. These educational workshops are aimed at deaf and hard of hearing persons, as well as at those who are part of the deaf community in other ways. The programme’s main educational goals are to reverse the condition of standardized exclusion, to introduce participants into the world of music and sound art, and to create collaborative sound works through collaborative planning and workshop practices. The materials of this venture are vibration, visualization of sound, art history, music theory, and other contemporary technological possibilities. The educational workshops cycle will come complete with a sound work, designed by all the members of the group together.
The workshops are self-contained and participants can join the ones of their choice.
Participation does not require any prior relevant knowledge.
Planning/Implementation: Giorgos Samantas – Dana Papachristou
Artistic collaborator: Orestes Karamanlis
Starts on: 22 October 2022
Day & time: Saturdays, 13.00-15.00 (28/01, 04/02, 11/02, 18/02, 25/02, 04/03, 11/03,18/03, 1/04, 08/04 & 29/04)
Accessibility Sponsor
The GNO Learning & Participation Department relaunches the music, dance and movement workshop cycle in detention centres that strives to promote the importance of artistic education and contact with the arts in penitentiaries, in order to facilitate real communication among prisoners as well as their smooth reintegration into society. The workshops, which will be held on a weekly basis, are aimed at the Female Penitentiary of Eleonas (Thebes), the male wing of Korydallos Penitentiary, and the Special Youth Detention Center in Avlonas. Each of them will come complete with the presentation of the artistic result of the whole creative process.
Dance and Movement Workshops at the Female Penitentiary of Eleonas (Thebes)
Using dance as a means of training and deep non-verbal communication, the participants of the dance and movement workshops will be urged to develop their creativity, acquire basic skills, and experiment. The goal is to set expression free through the group dance process and get acquainted with alternative types of dance (street dance, traditional dances of different countries, intercultural dances, jazz etc.). The workshop will come complete with the presentation of a single dance theatre performance that will put together the original choreographies that will be created by the participants through guided exercises by experienced dancers.
Music Workshops At The Male Wing Of Korydallos Penitentiary
A new series of music workshops will bring creativity and free expression once again to the male wing of Korydallos penitentiary. Through improvisation, participants will experiment with sound and music, will develop performance skills and will co-create new compositions. The workshop will come complete with a concert, in which participants will perform their own music works themselves. The workshop’s main goal is to cultivate creativity, team spirit, and free expression.
Planning/Implementation: Margarita Trikka (dancer, choreographer), Katerina Spyropoulou (dancer, choreographer)
Final performance date: T.B.A.
Music And Dance Workshops At The Special Youth Detention Center In Avlonas
Participants in the music and dance workshops are called upon to take part in a “double” dance and music workshop forming two groups, which will be working at the same time, while also collaborating with each other. Through experimentation and the guidance of experienced dancers and musicians, participants will acquire basic dance, music and performance skills. The workshop will come complete with a music and dance performance, in which the dance group participants will perform their works, dancing to the rhythm of the pieces produced by the music group. The workshop’s main goal is to cultivate creativity, encourage collaborative culture and essential communication among the prisoners, and promote the free expression that comes through the process of dancing and making music.
Planning/Implementation: Ilias Hadjigeorgiou (dancer, choreographer)
The Intercultural Dance Group continues its methodology and movement research by bringing together traditional and contemporary techniques while also highlighting the particularities of the aesthetic of different dance traditions. This season, the main goals are to strengthen the already existing group and give it the chance to incorporate new tools and methods in the way it works on the one hand, and to welcome new members from other dance fields and integrate new influences into the pool of our research process on the other hand.
Planning/Implementation: Polina Kremasta
Assistant to the choreographer: Thenia Antoniadou
Starts on: 31 October 2022
Day & Time: Mondays, 18.00 – 21.00
Date of the performance: Tuesday 30 May 2023 at 20.30, GNO Alternative Stage - SNFCC
*The members of the Intercultural Dance Group will be selected by audition. The open call for the audition will be announced on 5 October.
For a sixth consecutive year, the members of the Intercultural Choir will join their voices to invite different music traditions to a conversation and bring out the immediacy and power of singing. Over the years, the Intercultural Choir has hosted members from Slovakia, Tanzania, New Guiney, Ukraine, Cameroon, Syria, Cyprus, the UK, France, the USA, Kenya, Congo, Iraq and Greece. In this new educational cycle, the Intercultural Choir under the direction of its Mistress Anna Linardou, apart from the expansion of its repertoire with songs from the countries of origin of its members, will attempt to explore voice beyond the form of singing, its relationship with the body, movement and improvisation through works of contemporary composers.
Choir Mistress: Anna Linardou
Assistant to the Choir Mistress/ Piano accompanist: Dimitra Kokkinopoulou
Starts on: 26 September 2022
Day & Time: Mondays, 18.30 – 20.00
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The Junior Intercultural Orchestra will be an ensemble of 25 young musicians aged between 16 and 25. By creating this hub-orchestra, the inclusive character of the intercultural amateur ensembles will be further enhanced, giving young musicians the chance to creatively express themselves, develop new artistic codes, and open new channels of communication and collaboration, both among them and between them and the society at large.
Age group: 16 to 25 years
Planning/Implementation: Harris Lambrakis
Starts on: Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Day & Time: Tuesdays, 18:00-20:00
*The Junior Intercultural Orchestra members will be selected by audition. The open call for the audition will be announced on 7 October.
Supported by:
Having completed five years of wandering across the world of music, the GNO Intercultural Orchestra continues its musical journey around the world. Through a multitude of live appearances and a series of collaborations with artists active in the musical tradition of the Eastern Mediterranean, this season, the Intercultural Orchestra introduces its entry into the GNO Sacred Music Festival and plans its participation in a series of other projects that will be conducted in multicultural Athens as well as new collaborations with orchestras abroad. At the same time, it creates the Junior Intercultural Orchestra, as part of its mission.
Orchestra director: Harris Lambrakis
Starts on:
Days & Time: Mondays, 18.00 – 21.00
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Supported by:
The pioneering educational programme Opera Interactively Into Schools for Secondary Education Schools is the continuation of the programme that had been successfully implemented by the Greek National Opera in primary schools from 2012 to 2015. Interactive Opera in Schools, adjusted to the contemporary digital era and the social concerns of today’s teenagers, aims at acquainting young people with the art of opera through their participation in an interactive opera performance.
This school year, Kornilios Selamsis’ opera Offenbach’s La belle Hélène, directed by Yannis Kalavrianos, will be presented live in 85 Junior High Schools across Greece and in a total of 900 schools via online streaming with the help of the Opera Box App. This new performance reintroduces us to the myth of the Helen of Troy from a contemporary perspective while treating issues of gender stereotypes, roles and identities.
Students in the schools that will be visited by the Greek National Opera will have an active role in the programme, enjoying the chance to live up close the unique experience of the making of a performance and get fully involved in it. Under the guidance of the programme’s educators, students will take part in the artistic workshops with the goal of co-creating an original audio, music and visual material that will be integrated into the flow of the performance that will be presented in schools, thus completing the Greek National Opera’s two-day visit there.
Students that will take part in the programme from distance will have the chance to attend the performance digitally and explore the world of opera and music theatre via the educational digital application Opera Box App. Through webinars, the programme’s educators will guide school teachers through the learning goals, will facilitate the understanding of the work that will be presented as part of the programme, and will suggest practices of strengthening creative expression through the school class, as well as methods of creatively using the Opera Box App.
Creative Team
Planning/Implementation: GNO Learning & Participation Department
Coordination manager: Panina Karydi
Educational planning managers: Kiki Kerzeli, Michalis Moschoutis, Kalliroi Papadopoulou, Kristin Sofroniou
Historian/Musicologist: Artemis Ignatidou
Communication manager: Myrsini Vasilopoulou
Offenbach’s La belle Hélène
Opera for teenagers
Score: Kornilios Selamsis
Libretto: Alexandra K*
Director: Yannis Kalavrianos
Sets, Costumes: Petros Touloudis
Choreography/Movement coach: Marianna Kavallieratou
Application can be submitted by 7 October 2022 exclusively via the form you will find here.
The programme is co-funded by the European Union – European Social Fund (ESF) and National Resources (NSRF 2014-2020) through the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning”.
Experiential cinema workshop for Junior High School students
Opera Filmmakers, the experiential cinema workshop for Junior High School children comes back for a second year. Participants with a camera at hand will wander the backstage of the Greek National Opera, will unlock the theatre costume and prop rooms, will observe the operation of the mechanisms supporting this grand-scale theatrical stage, and will peep into a ballet, chorus and orchestra rehearsal. And all this, to capture on camera the fascinating secrets hidden in the different stages of the making of an opera performance.
During this process, children will get acquainted with the language of cinema, its means of expression, and the techniques and basic principles of directing. They will also be guided through the selected subject matter and will learn how to draft a screenplay. Moreover, they will be involved in the organisation of the shooting and will share the roles of a film crew before and behind the cameras.
The workshop will be held in 4 meetings of three hours each, on 15, 22, 29 October and 19 November 2022. As part of it, a short film production group will be formed by the participants. The film that will be produced will enter the 22nd European Meeting of Young People's Audiovisual Creation – Camera Zizanio (03–10/12/2022).
In co-production with the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People
Age group: Junior High School students
Planning: GNO Learning and Participation Department & Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People
Coordination manager/Implementation: Nikoleta Leousi
Dates & time:
15 October, 18.00 - 21.00
22 October, 10.00 - 13.00
5 November, 10.00 - 13.00
19 November, 18.00 - 21.00
Applications can be submitted from 1 to 7 October 2022 exclusively via the form you will find here.
Educational Programme Sponsor
Planning/Implementation: Rafi Company
Scientific associate: Sophia Kompotiati
How do we feel when we suddenly look at something we already know in a totally different way? When our perspective of that which is already familiar to us changes?
Through the programme Metamorphoses, curated by the Rafi Music Theatre Company on its first collaboration with the GNO Learning & Participation Department, children of all ages explore the mysteries/hidden secrets of opera, those things that are not obvious about it, sneaking through the cracks of the notes and words to illuminate them in a different way. Through activities that trigger imagination and creativity, workshops, and meetings/discussions with important guest from diverse fields, participants will have the chance to sharpen their eyes and thinking and shed light upon that which is different and unexpected, expanding their artistic horizons through the contact with a groundbreaking art that timelessly praises human freedom.
Don Giovanni
October 2022
An introduction to directing workshop for teenagers
We direct an aria, we explore our creative freedom and the possibilities of different approaches to artistic creation. Mozart’s music, with its timeless power, carries Don Giovanni’s legend across the centuries. Performances, legends, and original stagings have marked its contact with the audience of our time. But how would a teenager in the time of the MeToo movement direct it? How would they approach the libretto and Mozart’s music? Teenagers converse with university professors specialised in gender and identity issues, singers and GNO set designers to present their own version of the opera through DIY music and visual techniques.
Age group: 11-15
Dates & Time: 22 October, 17.00 – 19.00 & 23 October 2022, 17.00 – 20.00
Speakers: Irene Avramopoulou (assistant professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences), Chrysa Malliamani (opera singer, soprano)
Don Quijote
November 2022
Movement workshop for children
How can we transform ourselves into a hero or a windmill? Can we dance revolution? Can we turn our body into a fairy tale, an adventure, and talk about the value of heroism and revolt without speaking? How can art become a revolutionary act? A workshop for children who transform into Don Quijotes and windmills, reshaping the power and beauty of dreams, imagination and revolution through dance, music and physical theatre.
Age group: 9-12
Dates & time: 26 & 27 November 2022, 17.00 – 19.00
Speakers: TBD
Les contes d’ Hoffmann
December 2022
“Musical” sculpting workshop
Quite often in the world of opera we should not believe our own eyes! Through the power of singing and music and the theater’s technical possibilities, everything seems magical! How can we transform our own selves? Using the famous Doll Aria from Les contes d’ Hoffmann as a vehicle, we attempt to become dolls ourselves, but also sculptors and magicians through crash courses of operatic magic!
Age group: 6-9
Dates & time: 17 & 18 December 2022, 17.00 – 19.00
Speakers: TBD
Falstaff
January 2023
Creative writing workshop – how to write a miniature-libretto
Giuseppe Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito offered a reading of Shakespeare’s masterpiece as a hymn to love, flooded with the colours of the Italian Renaissance, but also darker and more atmospheric than the original. Participants will converse with activists and members of the LGTBQ community about the facets of love in 2022, as well as with the protagonists of this year’s GNO production of the same title in order to draw inspiration and pen their own miniature-librettos.
Age group: 13-15
Days & time: 28 January 2022, 17.00 – 19.00 & 29 January 2023, 17.00-20.00
Speakers: Anna Kouroupou (director of Red Umbrella Athens)
Werther
April 2023
Music letters writing workshop for teenagers
How do we write love letters? Do people write love letters in our time? Starting from wondering about the ways love letters via digital applications are different from 19th-century love letters, this workshop urges teenagers to replace pen and keyboard with notes, as a means of expression.
Age group: 13-15
Dates & time: 1 April, 17.00-19.00 & 2 April 2023, 17.00-20.00
Speakers: TBD
Médée
April 2023
Sound and vocal art workshop for teenagers
The workshop revolves around the most basic and common, yet also most moving musical instrument: the human voice. Par excellence performers of emotions – joy, sadness, anger, hope –, opera singers use notes, their throats and bodies, to express all that can’t be said in any other way. The workshop will attempt at a first introduction to precisely these techniques and methods.
Age group: 13-15
Dates & time: 29 April, 17.00-19.00 & 30 April 2023, 17.00-20.00
Speakers: TBD
Madama Butterfly
June 2023
Music and visual arts workshop for children
How is it to be seen as a foreigner? What does foreign mean? What does it feel like to write
stories, create worlds through the eyes of different cultures? Going through the current
intercultural reality, children will converse with young migrants living in Greece and will
work together with visual artist Filippos Vasileiou. They will transform scenes from the opera
Madama Butterfly, building masks, costumes and stage props with references on diverse
cultures, creating their own unique visual version of the work.
Age group: 6-9
Dates & time: 3 & 4 June 2023, 17.00-19.00
Conducted by: Rafi Music Theatre Company, Filippos Vasileiou (sculptor)
Speakers: TBD
Educational Programme Sponsor
An intercultural opera hub for a mixed group of 30 young Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 14-18 from across Attica
After the big success of last year’s Co-OPERAtive, the intercultural opera hub for teenagers returns for one more year. The programme, awarded the 2019 Fedora Education Prize, draws inspiration from opera and comes to prove once again the invincible power of music as a common language that can embrace and bridge cultural differences. Those who will participate in the soon-to-be-formed mixed group of the 30 Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 14-18 from across Attica, will be asked to create and present their own performance based on personal and spontaneous expression, synergy and team work.
Artistic team
Starts on: Monday 7 November 2022
Day & Time: Mondays, 17:30-20:30
Age group: 14-18 years
Final performances: tba
*Participants will be selected by open call which will be announced on 10 October 2022.
Alumni Group
The Alumni Group is created this year for those who have completed their participation in Co-OPERAtive and wish to preserve and deepen their relationship with opera and the artistic creation process. The Alumni Group shall enjoy a series of privileges, including the acquaintance with many theatre-related professions, participation in the making of the workshop’s upcoming production, as well as free attendance of selected performances at the Greek National Opera.
In collaboration
Supported by
The successful programme Guitar Express returns this year to the GNO Learning and Participation Department and promises participants new experiences and surprises. With the goal of promoting expression through music and using guitars, voices and songs as its tools, the workshop aims at exploring new paths of knowledge and creativity and at bringing back to the foreground stories and songs from old times, thus becoming a pleasant and relaxing way out of the everyday life routine. The programme includes weekly live music meetings and participants will be given additional material that will help them cultivate their musical perception, study and understand the subject matter, and train themselves in the relaxation of body and mind.
Prior music knowledge is not required.
Planning/Implementation: Kiki Kerzeli
Scientific supervisor: Ioanna Etmektsoglou
Starts: 14 February 2023
Day & Time: Tuesdays, 11.00-13.00
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The new experiential intergenerational educational programme for adults aged 65 and over and their grandchildren aged between 5 and 7 is centered on singing, playing and storytelling. In weekly meetings, the short and long lifelines of the members of the group intersect, with the goal of sharing, communicating and creating a common narrative through words, breaths and notes. Through the valuable tools of speech, music and playing and by making use of their diverse age and social backgrounds, the members of the group, in collaboration with the animators, will wander through a collective creative process aimed at developing solidarity and mutual understanding, fighting exclusion, and enriching the artistic and social experience of all the participants.
Planning/Implementation:
Starts in: January 2023
Day & Time: Mondays, 17.00 - 19.00
Applications can be submitted from 6 to 30 December 2022 exclusively via the form you will find here.
A speech about Luigi Cherubini’s Médée
The art of opera has its roots in ancient Greece. It was invented as a musical/vocal idiom in Florence in 1597, when Duke Ferdinando de' Medici, a generous Maecenas of the arts, set up the committee La Camerata Fiorentina with the goal of tracing the original version of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides’ works, performances of which were regularly held in the palaces of noblemen of the time. Although the originals were never found, the members of La Camerata Fiorentina, after studying Aristotle’s Poetics, discovered that the structure of ancient dramatic plays, apart from recitation, also included music and singing, and so they created a new version of the works, quite close to the original ancient one. They named it after the Greek term, “melodrama”, which is opera’s official name. The first opera, Jacopo Peri’s La Dafne, premiered in Palazzo Bardi in 1597.
The speech will highlight Greece’s influence on opera over the centuries and will be accompanied – with an emphasis on Cherubini’s Médée – by video projections of works by Peri, Monteverdi, Handel, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Cherubini, Verdi, Richard Strauss and Ionian composer Paolo Carrer.
Date & time: 27 April 2023, 17.00
Place: VIP Lounge
Free Admission – Advance booking is required from 24 April 2023 via ticketservices.gr
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