SHE
Marina Satti

HE
Apostolis Psyhramis

Ilia Algaer
Ioanna Forti
Nikos Giannarakis
Aris Kallergis 
Nefeli Markaki
Tassos Misyrlis
Maria Nika
Alkis Panagiotidis
Giorgos Tzavaras
Taxiarchis Vasilakos

The leading roles are performed by the charismatic Marina Satti, who has astonished everyone in the role of Aretoussa in Dimitris Maramis’ Erotocritus, and the experienced performer Apostolis Psyhramis. Marina Satti is the new star of our time, with millions of views on Youtube, involved both in large musical productions and improvisation performances with the project Fonέs. What’s interesting about the Once musical is that the actors will also take on the role of the orchestra musicians and will perform live music on stage.
The Once musical, written by Enda Walsh, is the theatrical adaptation of the awarded movie that was directed by John Carney in 2007. It tells the love story between an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant woman in the streets of Dublin. The film is a tribute to classical musicals, written in modern language, that has been honored with the Audience Award at the Sundance and Dublin festivals.
Like in the movie, the music is by Glen Hansard, singer of the Irish rock band The Frames, and the lyrics by the Czech singer, pianist, and actress Markéta Irglová. Their song, “Falling Slowly”, recorded by The Frames and performed by the two artists as a duet on stage at live shows across Europe, was a huge success and won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The musical premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop theatre in 2011 and a year later it was remounted with great success on Broadway. The production received 11 Tony Award nominations in 2012 –an institution that rewards the best Broadway productions since 1949– and won eight awards in total, among others, for Best Musical, Best Actor and Best Book. In 2012, the musical won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, while in 2013 it was awarded the famous Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album. At that time, it also became a theatre production for the first time in London, while in October 2013 it went on a grand tour in America that continued in 2016 as well.
A busker in Dublin is ready to give up his dreams, when a young Czech musician, an immigrant woman in Dublin, shows a sudden interest in his obsessive love songs. As the attraction between them heats up, the artist’s musical inspiration reaches its apogee… However, their unusual relationship proves to be deeper and more complex than just any simple everyday romance. It is a moving, unique story about the faith that we need to have in our dreams and the power of music that connects us all together!

THEA
Gina Fotinopoulou

EILERT
Haris Andrianos

TESMAN
Michalis Psyrras

BRACK
Giorgos Roupas

With the participation of a 7-member music ensemble 

In English, with Greek surtitles 

Τicket prices: €15 , €20
Students, children: €10

Hedda Gabler is unprepared to “suffer” the life she herself has imposed upon herself by agreeing to marry the academician Jörgen Tesman. Just a few hours after their return from their honeymoon, Hedda has the chance to dispel her boredom, by playing games with the fate of those close to her. However, walls are closing in on her too, when she is brought face to face with her greatest fears. The tragic ending appears to be the only choice…
A figment of imagination, monster, paranoid, individualist, ruthless, jealous, visionary, feminist, idealist, a victim of circumstance, are only a few of the names used by critics to describe Ibsen’s heroine. From its first-ever presentation in 1891 to this day, the work has drawn disapproval and appraisal, as well as repulsion and admiration, without ever leaving room for easy answers.
The work aims at making us reflect and awaken us to the standards and the quality of our modern-day social relationships, in the age of globalization and technological evolution. At the same time, it is a topical psychogram of woman’s nature, human relationships, and their problems. The multiple aspects of our social relationships and the imaginative habits of our daily life are put under the microscope in a direct, realistic and humorous way.
The music of this opera is marked by the personal musical identity of Giorgos Dousis, with a direct, unadorned and clear melodic writing.

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

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.

Ticket prices: 10  €
Students, children: 5  €

SOLOISTS 

Maria Alexandrou
Dimos Vlachos
Michalis Psirras
Marinos Tarnanas
Angeliki Vardaka
Chrysostomos Kalogridakis
Ioulia Spanou
Liana Kokosi
Giorgos Papadakis
Christos Delizonas
Emilia Tsimidaki

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 

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.

MAKRIYANNIS
Zaharias Karounis

EKATERINI SKOUZE (MAKRIYANNIS' WIFE)
Ioanna Forti

ONEIROMANCER
Myrto Bokolini

JOHN THE BAPTIST
Georgios Papadimitriou

DOCTOR
Nikos Kotenidis

With the participation of the Athens Mixed Municipal Choir

Ticket prices:  €15,  €20
Students, children:  €10 

The plot and the libretto follow as if through a prism, sometimes from a close distance other times from a security distance, the General’s immersion into his inner world, his visions and memories of overwhelming historic events, like the siege of the Acropolis, his stoning by fanatics and his notorious trial.

The opera could be subtitled “What reaches us from General Makriyannis to this day”: What perseveres to the first quarter of the 21st century from this late, “crazy” work of his, as its most passionate scholar (Giannis Vlahogiannis) described it in fear. What stays and what is superfluous from his personality and its refection, from his writings and their secondary elaboration, the extensive studies, and interpretations, from the unlocking, the sanctification and the deconstruction of his myth?

GRANDMOTHER BURYJOVKA
Ines Zikou

LACA KLEMEŇ
Frank van Aken

ŠTEVA BURYJA
Dimitris Paksoglou

KOSTELNIČKA BURYJOVKA
Sabine Hogrefe (14, 21, 24/10)
Julia Sougklakou (19, 27/10, 2/11)

JENŮFA
Sarah-Jane Brandon ( 14, 21, 24/10)
Maria Mitsopoulou (19, 27/10, 2/11)

FOREMAN AT THE MILL
Yanni Yannissis

MAYOR
Dimitris Kassioumis*

THE MAYOR'S WIFE
Margarita Syngeniotou

KAROLKA
Artemis Bogri

PASTUCHYŇA
Barunka Preisinger

BARENA
Varvara Biza

JANO
Miranda Makrynioti

TETKA
Anastasia Kotsali

 *On 27/10 and 2/11, the Mayor's role will be performed by baritone Vangelis Maniatis.

With the GNO Orchestra and Chorus

SOLOISTS
Alkinoos Ioannidis & Dimitra Selemidou (Magnus Eroticus)

With the GNO Orchestra and Chorus

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

SOLOISTS
Vassiliki Karayanni
Cellia Costea
Mary-Ellen Nesi
Juan Sancho
Dionyssis Sourbis
Paolo Bordogna

With the GNO Orchestra

Ticket prices: 20€, 30€, 40€
Students, reduced: 12€
Limited visibility:10€

CONDUCTOR
Lukas Karytinos

DIRECTOR
Stephen Langridge

SET DESIGN-COSTUMES
George Souglides

VIDEO
Silbersalz Film
Hagen Wagner & Thomas Bergmann

LIGHTING
Giuseppe di Iorio

MOVEMENT
Dan O'Neill - Fotis Nikolaou

CHORUS MASTER
Agathangelos Georgakatos

CHILDREN'S CHORUS
mistress Konstantina Pitsiakou

27, 28, 29, 31 July 2018
FRENCH OPERA CYCLE

Odeon of Herodes Atticus Theater
Starts at 21.00 |

As part of the Athens Festival

Ticket prices: 25€, 45€, 55€, 60€, 85€, 100€
Students, reduced: 15€

*Presale starts June 9th, 2018.

SISTER ANGELICA

SISTER ANGELICA
Eleni Komni

THE PRINCESS,HER AUNT
Maria Vlachopoulou

THE ABBESS
Leonora Gaitanou

THE MONITRESS
Marisia Papalexiou

THE MISTRESS OF THE NOVICES
Amalia Avloniti

SISTER GENOVIEFFA
Marietta Sarri

SISTER OSMINA
Annie Fassea

SISTER DOLCINA
Niki Chaziraki

THE NURSING SISTER
Angeliki Vardaka

THE ALMS SISTERS
Despoina Panagiotou

A NOVICE
Christina Asimakopoulou

THE LAY SISTER
Christina Asimakopoulou

FOUR GIRLS
Marietta Sarri
Annie Fassea
Zoe Karagkouni
Despoina Panayiotou

THE CLOAK

MICHELE
Yiannis Stamatakis

GIORGETTA
Eleanna Konstanta

LA FRUGOLA
Leonora Gaitanou

LUIGI
Christos Delizonas

TINCA
Christos Yiannoulis

TALPA
Georgios Papadimitriou

TWO LOVERS
Annie Fassea - Nikos Maraziotis

SONG SELLER
Nikos Maraziotis

With members of the GNO Orchestra and Children's Chorus

NABUCCO
Dimitri Platanias

ISMAELE
Dimos Flemotomos

ZACCARIA
Riccardo Zanellato

ABIGAILLE
Sae-Kyung Rim

FENENA
Elena Cassian

HIGH PRIEST OF BEL
Dimitris Kassioumis

ABDALLO
Yannis Kalyvas

ANNA
Varvara Biza

CRETAN LAOUTO
George Xylouris

DRUMS
Jim White

MANDOLIN
Michalis Kontaxakis

ELECTRO-CLASSICAL GUITAR
Antonis Voumvoulakis

PERCUSSION
Konstantinos Kalatzis

GUITAR
Christos Tzifakis

LYRA
Lefteris andriotis

CELLO
Giorgos Tamiolakis

BASS
Panagiotis Bourazanis

DRUMS
Yiannis Dimoulas

Velianiti Emilia
Kakava Anastasia
Pouliasi Despoina Irini
Tsardouni Fotini
Lazaraki Galini
Margara Isavella
Tripikelis Filippos
Tsantlogianni Markella
Iakovou Athanasia
Liapatis Orpheas
Pelantakis Vassilis
Zakolikou Sophia
Papadaki Theano
Tomara Theotoki
Gratsouna Athina
Noti Bessi
Morelli Mirsini
Neamoniti Andrianna
Sismanidi Ioanna
Kallivokas Spiros
Malla Flora-Chrisi
Avraam Marina
Chatzaki Evelin (Evgenia Evagelia)
Papadogianni-Kourenti Martha
Mantziou Adamantia
Alivanistou Keli
Pousnara Antzouleta
Vamvakas Alexandros
Kerzeli Kiki
Krougia Rezarta
Lappa Sila
Papadimopoulou Kalliopi
Orphanoudaki Katerina
Vlachogianni Sissi
Papadopoulou Christina
Kasavetis Giorgos

EMILIA MARTY
Elena Kelesidi

ALBERT GREGOR
Dimitris Paksoglou

DR KOLENATÝ
Vangelis Maniatis

VÍTEK
Nikos Stefanou

KRISTINA
Artemis Bogri

BARON JAROSLAV PRUS
Yannis Yannisis

JANEK
Christos Kechris

COUNT HAUK-ŠENDORF
Dimitris Sigalos

STAGE TECHNICIAN
Arkadios Rakopoulos

CLEANING WOMAN / HOTEL MAID
Miranda Makrynioti

DOCTOR
Ieronymos Kaletsanos

With the Orchestra of the Greek National Opera