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Wednesday, 23 October 2024 12:01
Moving Soundscapes
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
With interpretation into Greek Sign Language
* As part of the series of fully accessible programmes All Together at the Opera
What shape does a melody have? What is the sound of a circle or a square? Can aluminum foil make music? Does an everyday use object have rhythm? Can I describe my favourite song using a piece of wire? How many different ways can I tell the same story? If the warm and cold shades of colours were the parts of my body, what colour would my dancing be?
After successfully completing its first implementation stage in the previous season, the interdisciplinary educational programme Moving Soundscapes, aimed at a mixed group of Junior High School and High School students with or without visual or hearing impairments, is now entering its second stage. The programme continues its collaboration with the Special School for Deaf & Hard of Hearing students in Agia Paraskevi, the Special School for the Deaf in Argyroupoli, the Artistic Junior High School in Peristeri, the 3rd General Junior High School in Peristeri, and the Musical Junior High School in Alimos. It aims to bring out physical expression as a form of communication and dialogue. This year, it also focuses on evolving the non-verbal, fun, and accessible artistic language it shaped last year by expanding its pursuits over a wide range of communication methods through movement, visual arts, and sound.
The series of programmes All Together At the Opera is sponsored by
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
The relationship between sound, music, and space has always been close. Historically, it has served as a “barometer” for tracking the changes and often radical transformations in the process of composition and the perception of sound. This specific relationship will be the focus of the sound art workshop cycle Latent Space, designed for young artists who explore sound as a medium for creating. Following an extremely successful first run last year, this season, the workshops will centre on Béla Bartók’s subversive opera Bluebeard’s Castle, encouraging young composers and sound artists to select a text that explores the concept of space and use it to experiment with creating sound compositions. Moreover, participants will have the opportunity to be involved in the creation, design, and set-up of a unique multi-channel sound system, which will be showcased at the National Library of Greece’s Book Castle on 27 March 2025.
In collaboration with the National Library of Greece
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
Tuesday, 22 October 2024 15:27
Projects in Penitentiaries
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
For another year, the Learning & Participation Department of the Greek National Opera will continue its programme of artistic workshops in Penitentiaries across Greece, focusing on music, body, and rhythm. The workshops aim to foster creativity, teamwork, interaction, and free expression. In the 2024/25 season, with the support of the S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, body percussion workshops are scheduled to take place at the Special Youth Detention Center in Volos and the Penitentiary in Thessaloniki, a music workshop at the Penitentiary in Chania, and a movement and dance workshop at the Female Penitentiary of Eleonas in Thebes. Each workshop will culminate in a final performance showcasing the result of the entire creative journey.
Body percussion workshop at the Special Youth Detention Center in Volos
Participants will participate in a creative and fun process, learning body percussion techniques, cooperating, improvising as a team, and producing their own compositions. They will also have the opportunity to explore the connection between movement, dance, music, and singing through the physical expression of rhythm.
Body percussion workshop at the Penitentiary in Thessaloniki
Participants will receive body percussion lessons and will be encouraged to experiment with the sound of the body and improvisation, as well as to develop rhythmic skills in order to co-create an improvisatory musical composition.
Music workshop at the Penitentiary in Chania
Participants will be guided through the traditional music of the wider Mediterranean region using string and percussion instruments. Embarking on a melodic journey to their homelands, they will reminisce, converse, and work collectively.
Movement and dance workshop at the Female Penitentiary of Eleonas in Thebes
Participants will be encouraged to activate their bodies, develop their creativity through their acquaintance with alternative dance genres (street dance, traditional folk dances from various countries, intercultural dances, jazz, etc.), work in teams, interact with one another, and explore dance as a way to experience joy and well-being and as a means of promoting communication, and freedom of expression.
Donor of the Educational Programme in Penitentiaries
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
As part of the Project “SUB.1.1.6 Attracting individuals aged 65 and over and individuals with disabilities to events of the Greek National Opera”
Prima Volta, a new programme for individuals aged 65 and over, has been launched, starting a big nostalgic celebration in the city of Athens. The programme will take place in ten different parts of Athens, inviting adults aged 65 and over to participate in a game, in which music, theatre, neighbourhood evening parties, the past, and imagination will blend into a celebration filled with songs, joy, memories, and toasts to the future.
The Friendship Clubs in the areas of Amerikis Square, Agios Eleftherios, Kato Petralona, Ellinoroson Kolokynthous, Grava, Koukaki, and Pagkrati, as well as the Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas" and the Greek National Opera at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, will be the ten different locations where group members will meet to co-create. Through photographs and memories, they will tell stories from their neighborhoods, remember familiar tunes, learn new songs, and bring new worlds to life through the process.
The 2024/25 season will see the implementation of thirteen programme cycles, with the support of the City of Athens in collaboration with eight Friendship Clubs, whereas for two cycles it will be hosted by the Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas".
With the support of the City of Athens
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture is the funding body for the Project “SUB.1.1.6 Attracting individuals aged 65 and over and individuals with disabilities to events of the Greek National Opera”. This project is part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0.” and is funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU.
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
Tuesday, 22 October 2024 14:00
Free concerts at Care Centres for the Elderly across Attica
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
As part of the Project “SUB.1.1.6 Attracting individuals aged 65 and over and individuals with disabilities to events of the Greek National Opera”
Free concerts at elderly care centres across Attica continue for the 2024/25 season, aiming to connect seniors with the enchanting world of opera and promote active aging.
Through a rich repertoire of arias and duets from popular operas and operettas, as well as songs from the Greek interwar period, Rafi Music Theatre Company (Anastasia Kotsali, Leto Messini) and accordionist Kostas Zigkeridis will take the residents of Care Centres for the Elderly on a journey back in time, encouraging them to activate their memory, sing, and dance. The programme also aims at giving seniors a chance to engage in creative activities that foster socialization and interaction, as well as at connecting them with the art opera and contemporary social life.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture is the funding body for the Project “SUB.1.1.6 Attracting individuals aged 65 and over and individuals with disabilities to events of the Greek National Opera”. This project is part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0.” and is funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU.
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
A digital educational platform for secondary education educators and students.
What exactly is opera? Is it the singing, music, drama, and dance? A phantasmagoria, a work lasting only a few minutes, an ancient drama revival, a comedy, an epic endeavour? Or, could it be, perhaps, all of the above?
OperaBox, the Greek National Opera’s digital education platform, launched in the 2023/24 season, as part of the educational programme for secondary education schools Opera Interactively Into Schools, is available online, inviting individuals of all ages to a journey across the past, present, and future of opera. Using interactive activities and applications, new and archival audiovisual material, musicological and historical texts, as well as the imaginative video game Helen of Solidarity, OperaBox serves as an educational tool for formal and non-formal education that enables the introduction of teenagers into the world of opera and the familiarization of students and professors with the preparation of music theatre performances.
For secondary education educators who want to enhance their knowledge of using OperaBox in the classroom, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) will support more than 600 free online training seminars across Greece.
The programme Opera Interactively Into Schools was co-funded by Greece and the European Social Fund through the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education, and Lifelong Learning”.
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
A new artistic hands-on programme titled The Cat has been added to the activities for primary education schools.
The Cat, a mini operetta based on a fairy tale of the same name from Eastern Thrace, is the foundation of the new educational programme, in which primary school students will get actively involved in the process of creating and executing a musical performance under the guidance of three musician-animators.
The programme aims to stimulate children’s creativity by involving them in the preparation of an artistic work, cultivating their critical thinking and self-observation, enhancing their concentration, memory, and physical control, boosting their confidence and empathy, and encouraging them to foster collaboration and participation.
The programme will be piloted in five schools located in the First Regional Division of Athens.
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
Tuesday, 22 October 2024 13:34
Travelling with Turandot
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
Turandot, Giacomo Puccini’s remarkable opera, inspires the new educational performance programme for kindergartens in Attica, Travelling with Turandot. This programme will take children aged between 4 and 6 on a fascinating journey into the world of music and the other arts that make up opera.
Travelling with Turandot, an interactive performance based on the Italian composer’s last opera, will be the basis for a series of activities, including puppet theatre, music and movement exercises, and active listening, through which children will be introduced to the skills of voice as a musical instrument and explore the potential of their own voice. In addition, participants will have the chance to become familiar with the libretto and selected melodies from the opera Turandot, play with rhythmic motifs, and get an up-close introduction to the distinct characteristics of musical instruments such as the double bass, metallophone, and bendir.
GNO Learning & Paartcipation Lead Donor
The educational programme involving interdisciplinary artistic and pedagogical activities 3rd Bell Opera is back for a fifth consecutive year, sponsored by Piraeus Bank. The programme invites primary education educators and students to take part in a unique introduction to the captivating world of music theatre. It is aimed at primary schools in the Attica Region, and its goal is to actively involve participants in the creative process of preparing and presenting a music theatre performance using modern and groundbreaking tools. The final performance is scheduled to take place in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, on 1 June 2025.
The 3rd Bell Opera programme runs for a fifth consecutive year. It is sponsored by Piraeus Bank as part of its multifaceted Corporate Social Responsibility programme, “EQUALL—For a Society of Equal People,” and falls under the Young Generation pillar.
During the 2024/25 season, the programme will focus on the new music theatre piece Journey to the Land of the Ugly, exploring the concepts of inclusion, harmonious co-existence through respect for individuality, acceptance, and appreciation of diversity. The work was composed by Trevor Grahl, Andriana Minou penned the libretto, and Theano Metaxa is responsible for the stage direction. The musical ensemble will be conducted by Kyriaki Kountouri. The creative team of educators/artists comes complete with Sofia Ketetzian (soloist) and Ilias Vogiatzidakis (actor).
Educational Programme Sponsor
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 13:46
Δράσεις εκπαίδευσης εκπαιδευτών
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
Κύκλος βιωματικών εργαστηρίων εκπαιδευτών σε ζητήματα 65+
Μάιος 2024 – Ιούλιος 2025
Ο βιωματικών εργαστηρίων εκπαιδευτών σε ζητήματα 65+ απευθύνεται σε κύκλους του εκπαιδευτικού πολιτισμού, σε εκπαιδευτικούς καλλιτεχνικούς και μη τυπικής εκπαίδευσης, αλλά και σε όσους επιθυμούν να έρθουν σε επαφή με την καλλιτεχνική εκπαίδευση. Με το μουσικό θέατρο, τη μουσική και το θέατρο, οι συμμετέχοντες/ουσες θα αποκτήσουν την απαραίτητη τεχνογνωσία ενσωμάτωσης των εννοιών της συμπερίληψης και της προστασίας στον σχεδιασμό, την οργάνωση και την υλοποίηση εκπαιδευτικών δράσεων για ενήλικες 65+.
Τα πρώτα εργαστήρια πραγματοποιήθηκαν τον Μάιο του 2024 στο Ναύπλιο (Φουγάρο – Κέντρο Τέχνης), συνεχίστηκαν στην Καβάλα (ΔΗΠΕΘΕ Καβάλας) και στη Βέροια (ΔΗΠΕΘΕ Βέροιας), ενώ μέχρι τον Ιούλιο του 2025 που έχουν ακόμη κάνει έξι επιπλέον προορισμούς (Κέρκυρα, Μυτιλήνη, Κρήτη, Θεσσαλονίκη, Βόλο, Πάτρα). Παράλληλα θα γίνουν τρεις κύκλοι εκπαιδεύσεων στην Αττική και τρία από αποστάσεως εκπαιδευτικά εργαστήρια για όσους επιθυμούν να συμμετάσχουν διαδικτυακά.
Κύκλος βιοματικών εργαστηρίων σε ζητήματα ΑμεΑ
Μάιος 2024 – Ιούλιος 2025
Ο κύκλος βιωματικών εργαστηρίων εκπαίδευσης εκπαιδευτών σε ζητήματα ΑμεΑ απευθύνεται σε επαγγελματίες του πολιτισμού, εκπαιδευτικούς καλλιτεχνικούς και μη τυπικής εκπαίδευσης, καθώς και σε όσους ενδιαφέρονται να εστιάσουν σε ζητήματα συμπερίληψης και προσβασιμότητας. Τα εργαστήρια αποσκοπούν στην ανάπτυξη και τη διάχυση της τεχνογνωσίας για έναν περισσότερο συμπεριληπτικό και προσιτό τρόπο στον σχεδιασμό, την οργάνωση και την υλοποίηση εκπαιδευτικών δράσεων που απευθύνονται σε ομάδες ΑμεΑ και μεικτές.
Ο πρώτος κύκλος εργαστηρίων πραγματοποιήθηκε τον Ιούνιο του 2024 στη Βέροια (ΔΗΠΕΘΕ Βέροιας), ενώ οι επόμενοι κύκλοι θα γίνουν σε εννέα ακόμη γεωγραφικές περιοχές της Ελλάδας κατά τη διάρκεια της καλλιτεχνικής περιόδου 2024/25. Παράλληλα, θα γίνουν και τρεις ακόμη εξ αποστάσεως κύκλοι ανοιχτοί σε ακόμα περισσότερους συμμετέχοντες/ουσες.
Εκπαίδευση προσωπικού της ΕΛΣ σε ζητήματα 65+ και ΑμεΑ
Οκτώβριος 2024 – Ιούνιος 2025
Επενδύοντας στην ουσιαστική ένταξη των εννοιών της προστασίας και της συμπερίληψης στους κόλπους της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής, το προσωπικό του θεάτρου θα παρακολουθήσει εκπαιδευτικά σεμινάρια με στόχο την αφομοίωση της τεχνογνωσίας συμπερίληψη ατόμων με αναπηρία και ενηλίκων 65+ με στόχο τη βελτιστοποίηση των υπηρεσιών του κοινού, αλλά και της συνολικής λειτουργίας του θεάτρου. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, οι συμμετέχοντες/ουσες θα αναπτυχθούν πρακτικές χωρίς αποκλεισμούς στους τομείς της υποδοχής του κοινού καθώς και του γενικότερου καλλιτεχνικού σχεδιασμού, ενώ ταυτόχρονα θα εκπαιδευτεί και θα ενδυναμωθεί σε ζητήματα κινητικότητας και επικοινωνίας.
Φορέας χρηματοδότησης των εκπαιδεύσεων εκπαιδευτών και στελεχών της ΕΛΣ είναι το Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού, στο πλαίσιο του Έργου: «ΥΠΟ.1.1.6 Προσέλκυση ατόμων 65+ και άτομα με αναπηρία σε δράσεις της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής», που αναπτύσσεται στο πλαίσιο του Εθνικού Σχεδίου Ανάκαμψης και Ανθεκτικότητας «Ελλάδα 2.0» με τη χρηματοδότηση της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης – NextGenerationEU.
Συντονισμός & Εκπαιδευτική Επιμέλεια του Έργου «SUB.1.1.6 Προσέλκυση ατόμων 65+ και ατόμων με αναπηρία σε δράσεις της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής»: Κική Κέρζελη
Βοηθός Συντονιστής Έργου: «SUB.1.1.6 Προσέλκυση ατόμων 65+ και δράσεις ατόμων με αναπηρία σε θέσεις της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής»: Γιώργος Παπαδάκης
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Tuesday, 09 July 2024 17:24
The Greek National Opera visits Northern Evia
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
The GNO Learning & Participation will travel to Northern Evia, specifically to Limni and Loutra, Aidipsos, to present a three-day programme of events on the 18th, 19th, and 21st of July 2024. Admission to these events will be free for the public. The residents of these Municipalities, as well as visitors from the surrounding area, will have the chance to watch Stratis Vogiatzis and Dimitris Kourtis’ documentary That Day, as well as to enjoy two opera evenings featuring beloved arias and duets from well-known operas performed by sopranos Elena Kelesidi and Maria Mitsopoulou from the Greek National Opera. The three-day programme of events is part of the second cycle of educational and artistic activities of the Melisma programme, funded by the Ministry of Culture.
Having already been screened at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Open Horizons Category) and at the GNO Alternative Stage, the documentary That Day returns to where it started its journey. It is a cinematic portrayal of Melisma, a series of educational and artistic activities that were conducted by the Greek National Opera in Northern Evia, following the devastating wildfires of 2021. The documentary also uncovers the landscape through the lens of myths and stories. The directors kept a close eye on the creative development of the dance and music narrative Endless Land, which explores the themes of destruction and rebirth and was featured for the first time in July 2023, in Kechries, Evia. At the same time, they wandered through both the charred and revitalized terrain, walking along trails and seeking out myths and stories. They got carried away in adventurous encounters with the guardians of this land: a carpenter who rebuilds his burnt carpentry workshop, a woodcarver who carves scorched tree trunks, transforming destruction into new and peculiar forms, and a horse whisperer who converses with animals. The documentary will be screened on Thursday, the 18th of July 2024, at 20.45 at the open air cinema theatre of Limni “Elymnion”, and on Sunday, the 21st of July 2024 at 21.00 at Cine Apollon in Loutra, Aidipsos.
The renowned protagonists from the Greek National Opera Elena Kelesidi and Maria Mitsopoulou will offer us two unique opera evenings featuring beloved arias and duets from the global repertoire on Friday 19 July 2024 at 20.45 at the Heroes Square in Limni, and on Sunday 21 July 2024 at 22.00 at Cine Apollon in Loutra, Aidipsos. Marilena Souri will be accompanying them on the piano.
Soprano Elena Kelesidi has starred in numerous productions and artistic events. Moreover, she has performed numerous leading roles at the world’s most prestigious theatres, including the Vienna State Opera, New York Metropolitan Opera, and Opera de Bastille, as well as in important venues in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Amsterdam, Zurich and Tokyo, and significant festivals.
Soprano Maria Mitsopoulou has performed innumerable roles and is always expanding her repertoire. Furthermore, she has collaborated with the Athens and Thessaloniki Concert Halls, the Athens State Orchestra, the Camerata, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, and the Orchestra of Colours. Abroad she has performed in concerts in Lima (Peru), Parma, Turin, London, and Catania.
Pianist Marilena Souri has given solo recitals and chamber music concerts in many European countries. She has also collaborated as a soloist with the LUCA Chamber Orchestra and Sinfonietta Hellenica.
Learning & Participation Department of the Greek National Opera
The Greek National Opera visits Northern Evia
18, 19 and 21 July 2024
Screening of the documentary That Day
Directed by: Stratis Vogiatzis, Dimitris Kourtis
18 July 2024 · Starts at: 20.45 · Open air cinema | Cinema theatre of Limni “Elymnion”
21 July 2024 · Starts at: 21.00 · Cine Apollon in Loutra, Aidipsos
Opera evening
Featuring: Elena Kelesidou, Maria Mitsopoulou, Piano: Marilena Souri
19 July 2024 · Starts at: 20.45 · Heroes Square, Limni
21 July 2024 · Starts at: 22.00 · Cine Apollon in Loutra, Aidipsos
For the events taking place at the cinema theater of Limni “Elymnion” and Cine Apollon in Loutra, Aidipsos, admission will be free upon priority vouchers that will be distributed one hour prior to the start of the shows at the cinema entrances.
The Opera Evening on the Heroes Square in Limni on 19 July 2024 will be held without entrance tickets.
In collaboration
Melisma is funded by the Ministry of Culture
GNO Learning and Participation Lead Donor
This year the GNO Learning & Participation Department is returning to Skiathos with an educational programme aimed at the island’s secondary education schools. The goal of this year’s series of workshops, which will last throughout April, is to quickly introduce children to the process of preparing a music theatre performance. This will be achieved through their meaningful collaboration with music professionals and active involvement in the rehearsals. During this creative journey, children will work together and co-create, sing, play, and learn how to interact with the audience.
The programme will come complete with the creation and presentation of an interactive musical performance featuring traditional folk and modern Greek songs, music and body percussion. The performance will take place on 26 April, at a venue that will be announced soon. The songs that will be heard in the performance will have been worked upon during the programme, and will revolve around themes like love, goals, dreams, and the beauty of youthful pursuits.
Planning, implementation: Antonis Vasileiadis (European percussion teacher, composer, music producer, performer), Giorgos Kasavetis (percussion composer)
In cooperation with the Municiplaity of Skiathos
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
Artistic workshops cycle in Northern Evia
From September 2022 and for nearly a year, the Caravan Project followed Melisma, the year-long cycle of educational and artistic activities for persons of all ages that was realized in the wider region of Northern Evia, recording the workshops and personal stories of the people who took part in them. The Project tracked the compositional processes of a collective music-dance narration, which was turned into a performance titled Topos Ateliotos (Endless Land) and presented in Kechries, Northen Evia, on Sunday 16 July 2023, as well as on the GNO Alternative Stage on Sunday 17 September 2023.
The members of the film crew wandered across burnt-down and reborn areas, walking on trails and seeking legends and stories. They let themselves get carried away in adventurous encounters with the guardians of this land: a beekeeper who insistently harvests honey in the burnt forest, a monk who serenely reminisces on the miracle that saved the monastery from fire, a carpenter who reopened his carpentry shop, a retsina (variety of Greek wine) producer who is concerned about his future, a wood carver who carves burnt tree trunks transmuting the catastrophe into reborn, peculiar figurines, a horse whisperer who talks with animals.
The documentary composes an unseen geography of diverse narratives that shed light upon catastrophe and rebirth, challenging us to ponder on the symbiotic relationship between nature and civilisation.
Programme coordinator: Leonidas Panagopoulos
Implementation: Caravan Project (Stratis Vogiatzis, Dimitris Kourtis)
Presentation: Spring 2024
The programme was subsidized by the Ministry of Culture
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
Dance workshop for children aged 4 to 12 years
What came first, music or movement? How can movement turn into sound? Does music dance? How can music motivate individuals?
GNO Learning & Participation invites children aged 4 to 12 years along with their parents to immerse themselves into an entertaining exploration of the qualities, senses and textures of movement triggered by the power of music. With the accompaniment of Kostas Yaxoglou on the piano and Alex Bove on the cello, Vitoria Kotsalou will urge participants to explore the relationship between music and movement and co-create their own choreography inspired by classical music and opera pieces.
Dancing alongside their parents, children will explore the different musical motifs that come together to form a music piece, will listen to each other through their bodies and the rhythm, and will discover the innumerable games than can result from the creative process and cultivate active listening and movement skills.
The workshop will be conducted over five weekly two-hour meetings and will come complete with the presentation of the artistic result in front of a live audience made up of the participants’ guests.
Planning/Implementation: Vitoria Kotsalou (dancer, choreographer)
Featuring the musicians: Kostas Yaxoglou (piano), Alex Bove (cello)
Age group: 4-12 years
Dates & time: 15, 22, 29 January, 5 and 12 February 2024, 18.00-20.00
You can submit your applications from 30 December 2023 to 10 January 2024 exclusively via the form you will find here.
GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor
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