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Friday, 10 November 2023 16:18
Greek National Opera Tribute to Maria Callas
Written by Kakagianni Maria
Friday, 10 November 2023 13:47
Opera Filmmakers Νο 3
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
A cycle of interdisciplinary music, speech, and animation workshops for Junior High School children
In co-production with the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People
Opera Filmmakers returns renewed for a third year. In the current season, the programme will take the form of an intensive cycle of interdisciplinary music, speech, and animation workshops focusing its creative energy on Pyrgos (Elis). During the workshops, local students will be creatively introduced into the world of opera and cinema and will try their hand at making their own mini opera performance, which they will then attempt to turn into a short film (video clip).
The programme will be conducted in two phases: the first will be realized in Pyrgos (Elis), on 3,4 and 5 November 2023, where the young opera filmmakers, guided by the workshop leaders Dimitra Trypani (music score) and Iro Bezou (script writing), will create a hybrid mini opera of short duration, based both on modern music and the thematic, musical and textual conventions of the genre.
In the second phase, on 24, 25 and 26 November, the young artists will visit the premises of the Greek National Opera in the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center. There, they will record the mini opera, and through the director Alexandros Voulgaris’ eye, they will transform it into a short film. Moreover, during the filming, they will have the chance to wander across the impressive facilities of the Greek National Opera in the SNFCC, enter the Orchestra Rehearsal Hall and the costume and props departments, slip behind the scenes and find themselves next to professional singers.
Throughout the whole process, under the guidance of the programme managers, participants will explore the chosen subject matter and get familiarized with the language, expressive means and techniques of opera and cinema, as well as with the basic principles of composition, writing and filming a music theatre work, with the goal of creating their own original audiovisual material.
The short opera will be screened as part of the 25th Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People (2-9 December 2023).
Planning / Implementation: Dimitra Trypani, Iro-Eleni Bezou, Alexandros Voulgaris
Age groups: students of all three grades of Junior High School
Dates: 3, 4, 5 November (workshops in Pyrgos, Elis) and 24, 25, 26 November 2023 (sound recording, filming and editing the opera into a short film at the GNO facilities in the SNFCC)
In coproduction with
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
Friday, 10 November 2023 13:44
Baby Boom Dance
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
Dancing game workshop for parents and their babies
In collaboration with the GNO Ballet
Baby Boom Dance invites mothers, fathers and their babies to a tender dancing game that will use rhythm, music and movement to activate all the senses. In collaboration with dancers of the GNO Ballet, parents along with their babies will form a dance ensemble that will set the pace for a common dance, which will make babies feel the music and its rhythmic alternations through their parent’s bodies. A relaxing, fun and invigorating meeting that will make parents reactivate their own bodies with their infants in their arms…
Baby carriers are required.
Planning / Implementation: GNO Learning & Participation Department – GNO Ballet
Age groups: infants aged from 6 to 12 months (they must be able to support their own head)
Dates & hours: Sundays 26 November 2023 (Magda Koukou – Ferra), 28 January 2024 (Giannis Gantsios), 25 February 2024 (Hector Bollano), 10.00-11.00
Applications open on: Friday 5 January 2024
Applications can be submitted exclusively via the form you will find here
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
Friday, 10 November 2023 13:36
Pocket Opera & Ballet
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
Interactive opera & ballet performances
The new umbrella programme titled Pocket Opera & Ballet for infants, toddlers and primary school children brings us five of the productions to be presented by the Greek National Opera this year in miniature size. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, Coppélia to music by Léo Delibes and with a choreography by Edward Clug, Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Carmen’s ballet version to music by Rodion Shchedrin-Georges Bizet and with a choreography by Johan Inger, as well as Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème, are turned into interactive performances that will invite small artists to get actively involved in them both as performers and audience members.
The programme that is aimed at fostering children’s creativity and imagination will give the chance to participants to take part in theatre, music, and dance workshops, while urging them to experiment and compose their own artistic ideas, which they will then integrate in the abridged versions of the above-mentioned works.
The Pocket Opera section will present:
La bohème
For children aged 8 to 12
Workshop and interactive performance dates: 2, 3, 9, 10 December 2023
Planning/Implementation: Rafi Company (Anastasia Kotsali, Lito Messini), Michalis Kalkanis, Antonis Kappas
Applications open on: Friday 10 November 2023
Application deadline: Monday 20 November
Applications can be submitted exclusively via the form you will find here.
Pagliacci
For children aged 4 to 7 – adult accompaniment required
Workshop and interactive performance dates: 27, 28 January & 3, 4 February 2024
Planning / Implementation: Tik Tak Do company (Concept: Argyro Tamvakou)
Applications open on: Tuesday 9 January 2024
Application deadline: Tuesday 16 January 2024
Applications can be submitted exclusively via the form you will find here
The Pocket Ballet section will present:
The Nutcracker
For children aged 1 to 3 – adult accompaniment required
Workshop and interactive performance dates: 16, 17, 23, 24 December 2023
Planning / Implementation: Tik Tak Do company (Concept: Argyro Tamvakou)
Applications open on: Friday 24 November 2023
Application deadline: Monday 4 December 2023
Applications can be submitted exclusively via the form you will find here.
Carmen
For children aged 8 to 12
Workshop and interactive performance dates: 10, 11, 17, 18 February 2024
Planning / Implementation: Stavroula Pavlikou, Maria Terzaki (Arnitsi Bitsi Company)
Applications open on: Friday 19 January 2024
Application deadline: Monday 29 January 2024
Applications can be submitted exclusively via the form you will find here.
Coppélia
For children aged 4 to 7 – adult accompaniment required
Workshop and interactive performance dates: 11, 12, 18, 19 May 2024
Planning / Implementation: Opahop (Dimitris Sinanoglou, Athina Tasoula, Nadia Zagli, Giorgos Papadopoulos, Kyriakos Karamperopoulos)
Applications open on: Monday 15 April 2024
Application deadline: Wednesday 24 April 2024
Applications can be submitted exclusively via the form you will find here.
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
Friday, 03 November 2023 17:57
International opera channel Mezzo presents a new documentary on the Greek National Opera and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Written by Kakagianni Maria
Educational programme for Primary Education schools
3d Bell Opera, the established programme of inter-artistic and pedagogical action for Primary Education schools, returns renewed for one more creative wandering across the inter-artistic world of opera and music theatre, sponsored by Piraeus Bank. The programme aspires to introduce teachers and students into the fun artistic process of preparing and presenting a modern music theatre work through a series of workshops employing modern and innovative tools. During the school year, participants will have the chance to get acquainted and experiment with opera and music theatre practices. The programme’s goals further include promoting experiential learning, communicating knowledge, and cultivating skills appropriate to be incorporated into the school curriculum.
In this season, 3d Bell Opera gives the leading role to the liberating power of imagination and presents the new music theatre work Fantastic Street: Enter Through the First Drawer… Guest Star: the Ghost of Gianni Rodari!, scored by Sofia Kamayianni and with a libretto by Anastasia Stylianidi. Inspired by the book of Italian children’s book writer Gianni Rodari La grammatica della fantasia (“The Grammar of Fantasy”), the work revolves around the importance of imagination in the everyday experience. Basis of all creative activity and a way to express emotions, this year imagination will be unleashed to guide us to… Fantastic Street.
The production will be presented before the wider public in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in June 2024.
Creative Team
Score, music educator: Sofia Kamayianni
Libretto: Anastasia Stylianidi
Direction, theatre coach: Eleni Zachopoulou
Music coach: Fani Morali
Start: Monday 16 October 2023
Day & hour: Mondays, 18.00-21.00
Performance date: Saturday 1 June 2024
The educational programme 3d Bell Opera is sponsored by
Lead Donor of the GNO Learning & Participation Department
Monday, 30 October 2023 15:02
Tickets for all January – March 2024 productions at the GNO go on sale
Written by Kakagianni Maria
Tuesday, 17 October 2023 12:06
The GNO Ballet is to present Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, in Cyprus
Written by Kakagianni Maria
Friday, 06 October 2023 11:43
First international presentation of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bleat at the 61st New York Film Festival draws massive applause
Written by Kakagianni Maria
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