Music – Lyrics
John Browne

Direction – Translation - Sets 
Alexandros Raptotasios

Musical direction – Chorus coaching - Music and lyrics adaptation
Konstantinos Thomaidis

Costumes
Marie Cecile Inglesi

Lighting
Eliza Alexandropoulou

Soundscapes
Alexandros Drimonitis

Chorus coordinator
Anna Efthymiou

Greek National Opera Alternative Stage 
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center 

Co-production with the Municipal and Regional Theatres of Corfu, Kozani, Serres, Crete, Kalamata, Agrinio, Theatre of Thessaly and Ferodo Bridges

Starts at: 20.30 (Sunday: 19.00) |   

Musical direction
Nicolas Vassiliou

Director
Angela-Kleopatra Saroglou

Sets – Costumes
Konstantinos Zamanis

Lighting designer
Stella Kaltsou

Videο
Vassilis Kehagias

Greek National Opera Alternative Stage 
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center 

Starts at: 19.30  |   

Conductor
Daniel Smith

Director
John Fulljames

Associate director
Aylin Bozok

Sets
Dick Bird

Costumes
Annemarie Woods

Choreographer
Maxine Joanna Braham

Lighting designer
Fabiana Piccioli

Video designer
Will Duke

Programmer video   
Dan Trenchard

Chorus master
Agathangelos Georgakatos 

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

Starts at: 19.30 (Sundays: 18.30) |

Conductor
Lukas Karytinos

Director, sets, costumes
Hugo de Ana

Video projection designer
Sergio Metalli - Ideogamma SRL

Lighting designer
Valerio Alfieri
     
Chorus master
Agathangelos Georgakatos 

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

Starts at: 20.00 (Sundays: 18.30) |

 
Synopsis

ACT I  
Nagasaki, early 20th century. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the United States Navy, is arranging with Goro, a Japanese marriage broker, the last details of his upcoming marriage with Cio-Cio-San, a fifteen-year-old geisha also known as Butterfly. Pinkerton informs Sharpless, the United States consul, that in Japan a husband can break up his marriage anytime. In vain Sharpless tries to warn him that the adolescent girl is bound to take the marriage seriously.
The bride arrives with her friends and relatives. She shows Pinkerton her few possessions, including the narrow sheath that contains the dagger with which her father killed himself. Right after the ceremony the Bonze, Butterfly’s uncle, arrives and denounces her for having forsworn her faith, urging the rest of her relatives to do the same. Cio-Cio-San is left alone with Pinkerton, who tries to comfort her. Suzuki, her maid, helps her dress for her wedding night and Butterfly joins Pinkerton in the garden.

ACT II
Three years later, in the same residence, Cio-Cio-San is alone with Suzuki. Even though Pinkerton left for his home country shortly after the wedding and never returned, Cio-Cio-San remains faithful to him and dreams of the day that she will see him once again. Sharpless appears: he wants to prepare her for Pinkerton’s return with his American wife. Cio-Cio-San refuses to listen and shows Sharpless her son by Pinkerton. She decorates the house for his arrival and settles to a night of waiting next to Suzuki and the child.
As morning breaks, Cio-Cio-San, who stayed up all night, takes her son to another room and sings him to sleep. Pinkerton and Sharpless appear and ask Suzuki to speak to the former’s American wife. Pinkerton recalls the past. Filled with remorse, he chooses not to face Cio-Cio-San and leaves. Butterfly enters, looking for her husband. Much to her dismay she sees the strange woman in the garden and is informed by Sharpless and Suzuki that Pinkerton will never return to her. She seems to accept the situation and even agrees to give Pinkerton their son, if he comes to take him himself. She then asks to be left alone and decides to end her life. In an effort to stop her, Suzuki sends in her son. Butterfly bids him farewell, ties his eyes and commits suicide just as Pinkerton arrives.

Musical direction
Michalis Papapetrou

Programme manager
Angelo Simos

Starts at: 21.00 |

Conductor
Lukas Karytinos

Performer 
Anita Rachvelishvili 

With the GNO Orchestra

Starts at : 20.30 (GMT+3) |

Conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi

With: Cellia Costea, Giorgio Berrugi, Tassis Christoyannis

With the Greek National Opera Orchestra

As part of the Athens Festival

Odeon of Herodes Atticus

A part of the Athens Festival

Starts at: 21.00 |

Conductor

Pier Giorgio Morandi

With

Krassimira Stoyanova

Riccardo Massi

Dimitri Platanias

With the Greek National Opera Orchestra

 As part of the Athens Festival

Odeon of Herodes Atticus

A part of the Athens Festival

Starts at: 21.00 |

GNO Children’s Chorus

Chorus Mistress Konstantina Pitsiakou

Piano / Music coach assistant Marilena Souris

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online until 8/7

Libretto Pericles Korovessis

Soloist Tassis Christoyannis

Piano Nicolas Vassiliou

Animation Eirini Vianelli

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online until 6/7

Conductor Elias Voudouris

Director Alexandros Eflkidis

Orchestral adaptation Yannis Belonis

Sets & costumes Alexia Theodoraki

Soloists Irena Athanasiou, Chrissa Maliamani, Pavlos Maropoulos, Dimitris Paksoglou, Eleni Voudouraki

GNO Orchestra seven-member ensemble: violin Alexis Theofylaktou, violoncello Nikos Kavakos, viola Ilias-Ion Livieratos, flute Thodoris Mavrommatis, clarinet Ioannis Karayannidis, trombone Stavros Klavanidis, piano Domna Halari

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online until 30/7

First violins Alexis Theofylaktou (Exarchon), Haralambos Karasavvidis, Second violins Argyro Seira (First Principal), Dorian Idrizi, Violas Ilias-Ion Livieratos (First Principal), Marina Stalimerou, Violoncellos Nikolas Prevezianos (First Principal), Marilena Vassou, Double bass Christos Komissopoulos (First Principal), Flute Nikos Nikopoulos (First Principal), Clarinet Ioannis Karayannidis (First Principal), Bassoon Giorgos Farouggias (First Principal), Piano Frixos Mortzos – GNO Orchestra Musicians

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online until 2/7

Conductor Elias Voudouris

Director Alexandros Efklidis

Orchestral adaptation Yannis Belonis

Sets & costumes Alexia Theodoraki

Soloists Haris Andrianos, Vassiliki Karayanni, Petros Magoulas, Chrissa Maliamani, Yannis Christopoulos

GNO Orchestra 7-member ensemble: violin Alexis Theofylaktou, violoncello Nikos Kavakos, viola Ilias-Ion Livieratos, flute Thodoris Mavrommatis, clarinet Ioannis Karayannidis, Panagiotis Sioras, bassoon Dimitris Dakovanos, horn Christos Kaloudis

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online until 28/7

Concept - Creative director 

Marina Satti

Music coach – Director

Eirini Patsea

Movement coach

Markella Manoliadi

Orchestral adaptation

Yannis Belonis

Movement Coach’s assistant

Sophia Konstantinidou

Illustrations – Collage  

Vasiliki Nikoloutsou & Isavella Oikonomopoulou

Video

Dimitris & Orestis Stavropoulos

Editing- Processing

Thomais Triantafyllidou

Sound recording—mixing

Yannis Baxevanis

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online until 29/6

Flute Zach Tarpagos

Clarinet Panagiotis Sioras

Horn Angelos Sioras

Marimba Panagiotis Ziavras

Starts at: 20.00 |   

The video will remain available online until 27/6

Percussion duet Behind Bars (GNO Orchestra musicians)

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online until 25/6

Piano Sophia Tamvakopoulou

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online until 23/6

Choreography Daphnis Kokkinos

Sets Daphnis Kokkinos, Aida Vainieri

Costumes Dora Stylidou

Lighting Christos Tziogas

Piano Stefanos Nasos, Apostolos Palios

With the GNO Principal Dancers, Soloists and Corps de ballet

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online until 28/5

Violin Michael Kolokotronis

Piano Titos Gouvelis

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online  until 19/6

Piano Theodore Tzovanakis

Narrator Giorgos Koumendakis

Starts at: 20.00 [GMT+3]|   

The video will remain available online until 17/6