Born in 1997 in Narni (Italy). He started his dance studies at A.S.D Areaballet Terni with Michela Fausti from 2007-13. In 2009, he studied ballet for a year in Accademia Nazionale di Danza (Rome). Over the years he has been awarded in dance and ballet competitions while he has been offered to attend a summer course in the Royal Ballet School in London, UK (2013) and in the Ballet Summer Course Intensive in Gdyni, Poland (2014). In 2014, he received two scholarships for a full training programme at Scuola del Balletto di Toscana in Florence, Italy and at École Supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower in Cannes, France. He then decided to move to Florence where he studied for the next three years and in the last two years of which, he also participated in the Junior Balletto di Toscana (Florence) under the direction of Cristina Bozzolini. He also danced Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet by Davide Bombana throughout Italy. In 2017 he joined the CINEVOX Junior Company in Switzerland under the direction of Malou Fenaroli Leclerc where he has danced a wide neoclassical repertoire including a choreography by the famous Heinz Spoerli. In 2018, he joined the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava (Czech Republic), directed by Lenka Drimalova, where he danced a complete ballet, neoclassical and contemporary repertoire including works from Paul Chalmer, Mauro Bigonzetti, Giorgio Madia, Juanjo Arques, Krzysztof Pastor, Jiri Pokorny and others. Since 2021, he has been a member of the GNO under the direction of Konstantinos Rigos where he has danced Harlequin and Drummer from his Nutcracker choreography, Don Quixote by Thiago Bordin, Petite Mort by Jiri Kilian, Minus 16 by Ohad Naharin, Carmen by Johan Inger, Coppelia by Edward Clug and more. 

Born in Bergara, Spain. He graduated from the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza Mariemma in Madrid, where he worked with Larreal Madrid Dance Academy Ensemble with choreographers such as: Ricardo Franco, Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich (Metamorphosis Dance) and Gentian Doda. His professional career began at the Europaballet (Austria), working with choreographers such as Renato Zanella, Peter Breuer, Artur Kolmakov etc. He also performed at the Vienna State Opera, participating in the opera Madama Butterfly choreographed by Carolyn Choa and L' incoronazione di Poppea choreographed by Jan Lauwers (Assistant: Paul Blackman). In 2021 he became a member of the GNO Ballet, dancing choreographies by Konstantinos Rigos, Ohad Naharin, Jiri Kylián, Thiago Bordin, Gentian Doda, Giannis Mandafounis, Linda Kapetanea, Edward Clug, Johan Inger, Diego Tortelli etc.

The 65+ Choir workshop continues its intensive rehearsals of the repertoire worked on during the pandemic-induced remote meetings. The 65+ Choir takes us on a musical journey through different countries around the world and different regions of Greece, always with the goal of promoting the socialisation of its members and the development of emotional bonds and communication between them through singing and speech.

From January 2022, the 65+ Choir will focus on acquainting its members with the world of opera on and off stage. The workshop will start with the teaching of the songs of Angelos Triantafyllou’s opera Inland, which will feature the members of the Choir. The opera that will be directed by Nikos Karathanos will be presented on 8, 10, 12, 13 July 2022 in the Stavros Niarchos Hall.

Choir mistress: Dimitra Papastavrou
Piano: Konstantinos Papathymnios
Start of the programme: 1 November 2021

Implementation schedule: Mondays 14.00 – 16.00

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*In line with the restrictive measures for the protection of public health against the spread of COVID-19 and the guidelines of the Greek State, persons aged 65 and over can only participate in the workshops by presenting a certificate of vaccination against or recovery from COVID-19. 

A guitar, positive mood and much-loved songs are all you need to join the company of Guitar Express. During the weekly meetings of this successful programme time and current obligations stay out of class. It is the time to play the guitar, time for our favourite songs, joy and relaxation. It is the time to make music in the present with ingredients from the past so as to conquer the future.

The programme includes live meetings in small groups, weekly video courses, extra material for practice and auditory training, and online group meetings.

Planning/Implementation: Kiki Kerzeli

Scientific consultant: Ioanna Etmektsoglou

Starts: 2 November 2021

Implementation schedule: Tuesdays 10.00 – 12.00

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*In line with the restrictive measures for the protection of public health against the spread of COVID-19 and the guidelines of the Greek State, persons aged 65 and over can only participate in the workshops by presenting a certificate of vaccination against or recovery from COVID-19. 

The GNO Intercultural Orchestra continues its journey into the world of music, while serving as a crossroad for different beliefs and cultures. With performances on prestigious stages of Athens and through a series of collaborations with acclaimed artists in the field of Eastern Mediterranean Music, this year’s season the more than 30 members of the Intercultural Orchestra will take a step further by actively participating in Greek National Opera’s production Inland, to music by Angelos Triantafyllou and directed by Nikos Karathanos, which will be presented in 8, 10, 12, 13 July 2022 in the Stavros Niarchos Hall. Information: nationalopera.gr

Orchestra coordinator: Harris Lambrakis

Starts: 4 October 2021

Implementation schedule: Mondays, 18.00-21.00

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The Intercultural Choir project of the GNO Learning & Participation Department continues for a sixth year. After a long pause in live meetings, old and new members from every corner of the earth will once again join their voices into a unique musical journey without borders. For this year’s season the Intercultural Choir will be conducted by distinguished singer Anna Linardou. The Intercultural Choir already has more than 30 members. Ukraine, Cameroon, Slovakia, Tanzania, New Guinea, Syria, Cyprus, United Kingdom, France, USA, Iran, Kenya, Iraq, and Greece are only some of the countries of origin of those who have participated in the Choir. Its repertoire is getting constantly expanded and enriched with wonderful songs from the traditional folk music of its members’ homelands.

Choir mistress: Anna Linardou

Assistant choir mistress/Piano accompaniment: Dimitra Kokkinopoulou

Start of the programme: 4 October 2021

Implementation schedule: Mondays, 18.30 – 20.00

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A new intercultural workshop is born from the GNO Learning & Participation Department. Its members will have a background in intercultural, traditional and folk dance genres, but also in genres such as street dance, jazz, tap dance etc. Under the guidance of the workshop’s leader/choreographer the members of the Intercultural Dance Group will work together to exchange experiences and skills and to form an original dance group, in which traditions from diverse cultures will converse with contemporary creation.

Planning/Implementation: Polina Kremasta

Assistant to the choreographer: Thenia Antoniadou

Starts: 15 November 2021

Implementation schedule: Mondays, 18.00 – 21.00

More information as well as an open call for participants will be announced soon.

In collaboration with the Embassy of Indonesia in Greece

 The GNO Learning & Participation Department in collaboration with the Embassy of Indonesia in Athens continue the Gamelan Orchestra workshop, which first started in January 2020 and was abruptly interrupted due to the pandemic.

The goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to the Gamelan musical tradition through its unexpected conversation with the contemporary classical music repertoire, and to create the first Indonesian orchestra in Greece. Participants will get to know the musical instruments of a Gamelan ensemble and will familiarise themselves with the particularities of the form and rhythm of this musical tradition by performing Indonesian traditional folk songs as well as a contemporary Gamelan music work written by composer and workshop leader Andys Skordis.

Starting from the Gamelan musical tradition and focusing on its social dimensions, interaction and communication among the participants will be the key ingredient for the workshop’s musical outcome, which is expected to give a new form and style to the Indonesian traditional folk music.

The workshops will run for two weeks, after which the Gamelan orchestra will give a single concert in the hall of the Parnassos Literary Society, on Sunday 17 April 2022 at 20.00.

More information about the concert will be announced soon.

Workshop leader / score: Andys Skordis

An intercultural opera hub for a mixed group of 30 young Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 14-18 from across Attica.

The Co-OPERAtive programme, awarded with the Fedora Education Prize 2019, is an intercultural opera hub for a mixed group of young Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 14-18 from across Attica. It is inspired by opera, which serves as a common language for the creation of the first intercultural opera hub for young people in Europe. Co-OPERAtive’s goal is to expand opera’s impact and make it more known to the younger audiences, while bringing out cultural diversity and social cohesion. 

Implementation: Themelis Glynatsis, Andys Skordis

Music workshop leaders: Nikos Ziaziaris, Katerina Gevetzi

Theatre workshop leaders: Panagiotis Exarcheas, Eleni Moleski

Movement workshop leader: Katerina Gevetzi

Starts: 28 February 2022

Ages: 14-18 years old

Final performance: Untitled For Now: An Old Fable, 3 July 2022 at 20.30, GNO Alternative Stage

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Music theatre performance

Untitled For Now: An Old Fable

Greek National Opera Alternative Stage – SNFCC

Sunday 3 July 2022

Starts at: 20.30

Musical composition, conductor: Andys Skordis

Director: Themelis Glynatsis

With the participation of a mixed group of Athenian teenagers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors from the accommodation facilities of Kinoniko EKAV and European Expression

Sets & costume designer: Christina Spanou

Video: Marios Gampierakis, Chrysoula Korovesi

Lighting designer: Stella Kaltsou

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 A ballet workshop for children, teenagers, adults

For a second year children, teenagers and adults will experience the magical world of classical dance through a workshop that will be held on the occasion of the production of The Nutcracker, which is set to premiere in the GNO Stavros Niarchos Hall at the SNFCC on 17/12 with a new choreography by GNO Ballet Director Konstantinos Rigos. Meet the Nutcracker is a workshop held in collaboration with the GNO Ballet and led by the GNO Ballet principal dancers that aims at introducing participants into one of the most popular and enduringly enchanting ballets in the repertoire, for children and grown-ups alike. In its original two-act version, with a choreography by Lev Ivanov, a libretto by Marius Petipa, and music by Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker was first performed at the Mariinsky Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg on 18 December 1892.

Planning/Implementation: Elena Andreoudi & Vangelis Bikos

Implementation schedule (dates): 28 November & 5 December 2021

Ages: 28/11 12 to 14 years old & 5/12 15 to 18 years old

Implementation schedule (hours): 11:00 – 13:00

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A co-production of the GNO Learning & Participation Department and the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People

Τhe GNO Learning & Participation Department in a co-production with the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People invites Junior High School students to participate in the new educational workshop titled Opera Filmmakers. It is an experiential filmmaking workshop during which children will peep into a real theatre backstage and capture on camera secrets from the different stages of the process of creating an opera performance.

The workshop will be conducted in four meetings (16, 23 October & 6,14 November 2021) of four hours each. Its participants will form a short film production group, and the film they will create will enter the 24th Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People (27/11-4/12/2021).

With a camera at hand participants will wander the backstage of the Greek National Opera at the SNFCC, 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 rehearsal.

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 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 camera.

Planning & Implementation: GNO Learning and Participation Department & Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People

Implementation schedule (dates): 16, 23 October & 6,14 November 2021

Implementation schedule (hours): 12.00 – 16.00 (hours may change)

Participants: 12 Junior High School students

Workshop leader: Chrysanthi Badeka

 Using Erling Eriksson’s animation box along with some more simple applications as a main instrument, this experiential workshop  will introduce students to animation and teach them how to tell a short story in two or three dimensions with simple techniques (cut out animation, claymation, two-dimensional painting). Inspired by Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker participants will create a short stop motion animation under the guidance of the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People’s team.

Implementation schedule (dates): 18 & 19 December 2021

Implementation schedule (hours): 10.00-13.00

Participants: 12 students of the 4th, 5th and 6th Grade of Primary School

Workshop leader: TBA

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*Participants will have to attend the whole workshop cycle.

A dance games workshop for fathers with children aged 6 to 12

The successful ballet workshop that enthralled children and…daddies comes back for one more season. Once again, the Learning & Participation Department invites daddies to dance with their children, perform ballet figures, find out their balance limitations and discuss with their partners through movement and dance. Two precious hours full of motor activities, improvisations and games.

An invitation to dance not to be missed!

Planning/ Implementation: TBA

Ages: 6 to 12 years old
Implementation schedule (dates): 10 & 17 April 2022

Implementation schedule (hours): 11.00 – 13.00

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A stop motion animation workshop with props for children aged 8 to 12

 Inspired by Giuseppe Verdi’s timeless opera Rigoletto, the GNO Learning & Participation Department creates a multidimensional learning and creating workshop. Its goal is to make children discover the opera, and drawing upon its musical themes to portray the story through the stop motion animation technique. At the same time they will learn simple techniques that they’ll also be able to use at home.

Children will bring props from the GNO prop storage room to life and will tell their own version of the story reintroducing thus Rigoletto to the audience.

Planning/Implementation: Christina Spanou

Ages: 8 to 12 years ols

Implementation schedule (dates):14, 15, 21, 22 May 2022

Implementation schedule (hours): 10.00-13.00

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* Participants will have to attend the whole workshop cycle.

Activities for children inspired by the new production The Magic Pillows.

The famous, much-translated and award-winning story by Eugene Trivizas is adapted by the author himself for the first time into an opera for the whole family set to premiere in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the GNO at the SNFCC in November 2021.  On the occasion of this new fascinating GNO production, ten children aged 8 to 11 will have the unique chance to experience a sleepover in the Greek National Opera at the SNFCC. Music and movement workshops, dressing-up as characters inspired by the performance, a thematic dinner and breakfast accompanied by a small musical ensemble, and storytelling are just some of the activities, in which the children who will spend the night at the Opera will participate.

Planning/Implementation: Eugene Trivizas & TBA

Ages: 8 to 11 years old

Implementation schedule: 4, 5 December 2021

A music-motor education workshop for infants and preschoolers with the accompaniment of live instrumental music from four different eras

A project that awakens the motor and auditory development of infants and preschoolers through four periods of music - baroque, classicism, romanticism and 20th-century music - with an approach that includes parent participation. Through music and movement games children discover different timbres and styles and get acquainted with the sound of classical music and the main families of musical instruments.

Age groups: Group A: 1 to 2,5 years and Group B: 2,5 to 4 years

The presence of at least one parent is necessary for both age groups.

Planning/Implementation: Daphne Tsiouni (music educator / sound artist), Anna Serkedaki (flutist, music educator)

Musicians: 17/10 Baroque: George Goumenakis - mandolino, Stavros Parginos – cello • 24/10 Classical:  Vanesa Athanasiou – violin, Periclis Timpalexis – violin, Elissavet Skoura - viola, Elli Filippou - cello • 31/10 Romantic: Stella Nikolaidi – oboe, Chrysa Grenda – piano • 7/11 20th-Century: Stavros Kollias - piano

Implementation schedule (dates): 17 October-Baroque / 24 October – Classical / 31 October – Romantic / 7 November – 20th-Century

Implementation schedule (hours): Group A: 10.00-10.45 & Group B: 11.15-12.00

The Greek National Opera Learning & Participation Department continues for a second year its pilot programme of artistic and pedagogical activities with a new workshop titled The Talisman.

The Talisman comes as a continuation of last year’s successful programme How Did A Raven End Up In The Belly Of The Whale?, which was conducted and curated by Dimitra Trypani and came complete with the filming of the musical tale’s presentation in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the GNO at the SNFCC (May 2021), featuring 130 students, teachers, musicians and soloists. The musical tale How Did A Raven End Up In The Belly Of The Whale? is available to watch for free at nationalopera.gr/GNOTV with Greek and English subtitles until 31/12.

The programme is targeted at schools of primary education in the Region of Attica and aspires to bring primary school educators and students in contact with the fascinating world of music theatre through the use of modern and innovative tools. Its goal is to help participants acquire basic technical skills and introduce them into the creative process of preparing a music theatre performance. Upon the completion of the workshops, the final result will be presented before a wide audience in the Stavros Niarchos Hall in June 2022.  

A few words about the interactive musical fairy tale

THE TALISMAAAAAAAAAAAAN is a “new-old” musical fairy tale set on the island of Paxi and based on characters, scenes and symbols taken out of known traditional Greek fairy tales. It tells the story of a fisherman who becomes rich thanks to a magic little fish that gets caught on his hook. Yet the fisherman’s Fate, envious of the riches he so suddenly acquired, turns his only daughter into a Lamia (female vampire), casting an evil spell on her. The spell is hidden in a talisman Fate puts around her neck the minute she is born. The only one who manages to get off the Lamia’s hook – and the only one who can ultimately help his sister, parents and siblings, breaking the spell – is the fisherman’s third and youngest son, who returns to his village for the final confrontation with the Lamia, having old and new friends on his side as allies. – Dimitra Trypani

Coordination manager: Dimitra Trypani

Vocal and body percussion training, percussion Antonis Vasileiadis

Stage performance seminars Nikos Ziaziaris

Vocal and chorus training Sophia Ketentzian

Ensemble director, music coaching Aliki Siousti

Starts: 9 October 2021

Implementation schedule: Saturdays, 10.00 – 12.00

The programme is sponsored by