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Friday, 12 January 2024 14:04
Do You Choreograph?
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
Choreography workshop for children aged 10 to 12 years
In collaboration with the GNO Ballet
The new amazing workshop Do You Choreograph? is coming to offer children aged 10 to 12 years a singular music and movement experience full of emotions made of dance figures.
Classical ballet and the classical technique are based on terms and names well-known to professionals, e.g. grand jeté, pirouette, assemblé etc. But what happens when these terms get mixed with emojis depicting different mental states (joy, sorrow, anger, etc.)? A ballet dancer will have to perform all these instructions the moment each kid will choose the term or the emotion they want to be depicted.
A unique condition that will motivate children to unleash their imagination so as to improvise and choreograph human emotions under the guidance of a professional dancer. The workshop’s goal is to help participants acquire personal experience in the making of a choreography and understand dance as an inexhaustible way of expressing emotions.
Planning / Implementation: GNO Learning & Participation Department – GNO Ballet (Giannis Mitrakis, Marita Nikolitsa)
Age group: 10 to 12
Dates & hours: Sunday 10 March 2024
Hours: 10.00 - 11.30, 12.00 - 13.30
Applications open on: Monday 19 February 2024
Application deadline: Friday 1 March 2024
Applications can be submitted exclusively via the form you will find here.
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Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:05
Guitar Express
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
Guitar Express returns again this year from the GNO Learning & Partcipation. Aiming at expression through music and using guitar, voice and songs as tools, the beloved workshop continues for the sixth year to explore new paths of knowledge and creativity, bringing back to the fore stories and songs from the past. The program, being a pleasant and relaxing detour to the routine of everyday life, includes weekly face-to-face musical meetings during which participants cultivate their musical perception, practice relaxation of body and mind, while studying and understanding the subject.
Planning/Implementation: Kiki Kerzeli
Scientific consultant: Ioanna Etmektsoglou
Day & Time: every Tuesday & Wednesday, 11.00 - 13.00
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Tuesday, 09 January 2024 12:49
Moving Soundscapes
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
Interdisciplinary workshops for special education schools, teenagers, students with or without visual/hearing disability, and special or non-special education teachers
With interpretation in Greek Sign Language
What shape should the melody have? How does the circle sound and how does the square sound? Can rice paper play music? Does an everyday object have rhythm? Can I describe my favorite song with a piece of wire? In how many different ways can I tell the same story? If the warm and cold of colors were my body parts, what color would my dance be?
With kinetic, audio and visual games, we awaken our senses and develop communication tools that help us connect. By supporting and complementing each other, we create an artistic, experiential experience of inclusion.
The new cycle of interdisciplinary workshops Moving Soundscapes is aimed at special education schools, teenage students with or without visual/hearing disability, and special or non-special education teachers, and has multiple goals: to encourage the participation of teenagers with disability in artistic activities, enhance the self-efficacy of teenagers with or without disability, support inclusive education through non-verbal communication, cultivate collegiality within and without the school setting, provide inclusive learning tools, empower special and non-special education teachers, and raise awareness on issues of disability and art.
Using physical-experiential education through movement and improvisation exercises, musical tools of coordination and visual practices as their main instrument, the workshops will attempt to develop participants’ kinesthetic skills and expressivity through the enhancement of the mechanisms of reception, processing and composition of stimuli, regardless of the extent to which their senses are functional. Participants will understand the multisensory perception of knowledge by exploring the various ways, in which meanings/stimuli become perceived, and will discover the importance of physicality as a means of communication and dialogue.
Moving Soundscapes will be conducted in two phases: the first will be realized in schools, and the second on the premises of the Greek National Opera with experiential workshops, both for students and educators, as well as with meetings for educators with the goal of collecting feedback while also exploring with them theoretical approaches to inclusive techniques.
Planning/Implementation: Yiota Peklari, Vassia Zorbali,
Scientific associate: Natasa Chanta-Martin
Greek Sign Language Interpretation: Androniki Xanthopoulou
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Electroacoustic composition workshops
In collaboration with the National Library of Greece
In what ways can a text be transmuted into a soundscape? What process can convert the two-dimensional pages of a book into the multi-dimensional soundscape that is composed in the reader’s mind? How can an artist turn printed works into a sound experience? These are some of the questions that will be raised in the new cycle of electroacoustic composition workshops titled Latent Space, having as its starting point the power of written word to trigger the creation of a variety of artistic products that can reshape/recompose its content.
The programme is aimed at young artists and invites them to a creative adventure of sensory experiences based on music and the art of sound, with the goal of bringing out the constant interaction between philosophy, legend, and musical creation. Inspired by the literature on Richard Wagner’s emblematic opera Die Walküre, which will be presented in March 2024 in the Stavros Niarchos Hall, participants will use written word as their primary material and will attempt to turn the landscapes and the events described in texts of their choice into their own pieces of acoustic music. The resulting compositions will be presented on the GNO Alternative Stage in June 2024.
This educational programme brings out the vital space that has been historically provided by books to the arts, and at the same time, the special importance of the co-habitation of the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera under the same roof. The programme is realized with the collaboration of these two organisations.
Planning/Implementation: Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris
Scientific associate: Themelis Glynatsis
Bio
Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris is a composer, sound artist and educator. He obtained a BA in Double Bass, and a BA in Electronic Music Composition from the Rotterdam Conservatoire, while following courses at the Institute of Sonology (Royal Conservatoire of The Hague) and at IRCAM (France). He continued with two MA studies: in Fine Arts (Spain) and in Creative Education (UK).
He did his PhD research at University of Sussex, being fully funded with a CHASE-AHRC scholarship. His PhD research has been awarded as one of the most innovative in the field of Art and Technology by the Leonardo Academic Journal (MIT Press). He teaches continuously in Higher Education since 2011 (Falmouth University, University of Sussex, University of Brighton, Ionian University). Since 2019 he teaches at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since 2012 he is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
His works have been presented, at among others: Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Holland Festival, Todays Arts, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Modern Body Festival, Kalamata International Dance Festival, The Athens Concert Hall, Onassis Foundation, Tectonics Festival, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.
Programme starts on: Thursday 21 Μarch 2024
Dates: Thursdays 21, 28 March, 4, 11, 18, 25 April, 9, 16, 23, 30 May, 4 and 5 June 2024
Presentation date: 6 June 2024
The selection of participants will be made after an open call that will be announced a month prior to the start of the workshops.
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Dance performance and movement workshop for parents and children
When the body becomes voice, all destinations seem possible.
Pie in the Sky lands on the GNO Alternative Stage and becomes the starting point for a singular artistic experience that will take younger and older audiences by storm.
Pie in the Sky is a modern dance work, a duet that will be performed onstage by choreographer and dancer Georgia Vardarou along with the daughter Myrto Sanchis Vardarou, followed by an original movement workshop for children, mothers and fathers, on the GNO Alternative Stage. Right after the end of the show, participants will turn into protagonists, through modern dance techniques proposed by the two dancers, and will be urged to approach movement as a means of expression, communication and externalization of emotions, but also as a mechanism of activating hope and strength. At the same time, through the participatory process, they will get to know up close how a performance of this genre is structured.
* Pie in the Sky was created by Georgia Vardarou and her daughter on the occasion of the curfew imposed during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Confined, between our living room and a small cultural center in the nearby village, we began to create and dance, letting our imagination wander across the universe. Dark days would alternate with days full of astral light and the ceilings would brim with planets and distant stars. From time to time the hope of a possible perfect world would be born up there. Endless, innermost hopes for the future. Yet, maybe we became immobilized looking at the foregone light of these celestial entities. By creating and dancing, the stage world activates us once again with doses of hope and strength.
— Georgia Vardarou
Planning / Implementation: Georgia Vardarou (choreographer, dancer)
Age group: 6 to 9 year-olds
Dates: 25, 26 May 2024
Place: GNO Alternative Stage
Georgia Vardarou graduated from the National School of Dance KSOT) in Greece and then from P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium with the support of the first scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ). As a dancer she has worked with Salva Sanchis, Marc Vanrunxt, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, Lance Gries and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas. As a choreographer she focuses on individual movement and the content that this carries. She created Hardcore Research on Dance, Phenomena, New Narratives and Why should it be more desirable for green fire balls to exist than not which have been presented in various venues such as: Dance Umbrella (London), ImpulsTanz (Vienna), Juliana (Amsterdam), Athens Epidaurus Festival, Festival Salmons (Barcelona), Springdance (Utrecht), Kaaistudio’s (Brussels), STUK (Leuven), Schowburg (Amsterdam), Les Brigittines (Brussels) etc. She lived in Brussels for 13 years. In 2017 she relocated to Barcelona. Her work is produced by Kunst/Werk.
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Friday, 17 November 2023 12:23
Intercultural Orchestra
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
The Intercultural Orchestra continues its journey across world music and further enriches its palette of traditions, styles and timbres. Having evolved into a high-class orchestra from 2018 to this day, this year too, it will create new musical experiences with the steady goal of bringing out music as a language of communication and connection among people. In this year’s season, the orchestra acquires new members and expands its exploration to an even greater gamut of musical traditions. Moreover, it confirms its participation in Greek National Opera’s Sacred Music Festival and will bid 2023 farewell with a singular concert on Tuesday 19 December 2023 at Parnassos Literary Society.
Orchestra conductor: Harris Lambrakis
Rehearsals start on: Monday 9 October
Day & hours of rehearsals: Mondays, 18.00-21.00
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Friday, 17 November 2023 12:08
Opera Interactively Into Schools
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
Educational programme for Secondary Education schools
Opera Interactively Into Schools, the exceptionally successful programme for Secondary Education schools, returns renewed for a second year, aspiring to take even more teenagers on an original tour across the enchanting world of opera. The programme’s tour to Junior High Schools all over Greece will be completed in November 2023, counting 85 schools in total, yet the singular experience it offers doesn’t end here. During the 2023/24 school year, the programme will launch the fascinating digital platform Opera Box for those students and educators who wish to be initiated into opera’s irresistibly captivating universe, in an unexpected way. The programme is co-funded by the European Union – European Social Fund (ESF) and National Resources (NSRF 2014-2020) through the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning”.
This year, Opera Interactively Into Schools introduces Opera Box to school classrooms and takes the acquaintance and interaction of teenagers with the lyric art to new heights. Opera Box is a groundbreaking digital platform that will give users the chance for remote participation in the educational programme, along with a delightful experiential tour across the art of opera through an educational and at once entertaining setting. There, they will be able to discover for free the film version of the hilarious opera performance that was created to meet the programme’s educational goals, Kornilios Selamsis’ Offenbach’s La belle Hélène, produced by Foss Productions and directed by Kostis Theodosopoulos, as well as a series of original multimedia and interactive tools that will make the acquaintance of students and educators with opera more fun, while also enriching music teaching: innovative musicological texts on opera, experiential activities, an exciting musical video game, quizzes, video animations, and much more. Moreover, educators who will apply for the programme will have the chance, if they wish so, to attend a 90-minute educational webinar that will help them use Opera Box more easily and guide them on how to make the best use of the rich educational material contained therein, through ideas, proposals and good practices.
Applications can be submitted exclusively via the form you will find here
Creative Team
Planning/Implementation: GNO Learning & Participaton
Co-ordination manager: Panina Karydi
Tour manager: Konstantina Christou
Educational planning managers: Kiki Kerzeli, Michalis Moschoutis, Kallirroi Papdopoulou, Ann-Kristin Sofroniou
Educational workshop leaders: Giorgos Andriotis (music), Kalliopi Papadimopoulou (music), Zoi Arvaniti (visual arts), Isidora Papadouli (visual arts), Sissy Ignatidou (acting), Evangelos Kosmidis (acting)
Music historian: Artemis Ignatidou
Communication manager: Myrsini Vasilopoulou
Visual identity: Bend
Opera Box design and development: Tool
Video animation, video game design: Odd Bleat
Video game development: eNVy softworks
Fim production: Foss Productions
Offenbach’s La belle Hélène
Youth opera
Music score: Kornilios Selamsi
Libretto: Alexandra Κ*
Conductor: Kornilios Selamsis/Stathis Soulis/Kyriaki Kountouri
Direction: Yannis Kalavrianos
Sets, costumes, video animation: Petros Touloudis
Choreography, movement: Marianna Kavallieratou
Lighting: Nikos Vlasopoulos
Assistant to the director: Giorgos Papadakis
Assistant to the set and costume designer: Giouli Stylianidou
Soloist music training: Christos Sakellaridis, Spyros Souladakis
Musical material supervision: Andreas Valachis
Cast
Hélène Maria Tsironi / Smaragda Vangeli
Bacchis Marialena Politi /Marietta Sarri
Pâris Katerina Alexiou / Katerina Fountoukidou
Achille Katerina Botoni / Angelos Kidoniefs
Ajax Antonis Antoniadis / Antonis Kordopatis
Ménélas Nikos Ziaziaris / Dimosthenis Vlachos
Agamemnon Christos Rammopoulos / Zannis Kanterakis
Calchas Nikolas Karagiaouris / Nikos Masourakis
Instrumental ensemble
Flute Konstantinos Margaris /Vasilina Yfanti / Tonia Tombrou
Clarinet Ilias Skordilis / Odysseas Siozopoulos
Saxophone Guido de Flaviis / Thanos Tsakiltzidis
Trombone Ioannis Kokkoris /Neoklis Aravantinos
Percussion Panagiotis Koliavasilis / Artemis Ntaliape
Keyboard Tzeni Soulkouki /Eva Tsagkla-Manolaraki
Violin Zisimos Soulkoukis / Kleodoros Agoras
Viola Eleni Fourlanou / Vasilis Papapanagiotou
Violoncello Maria Skandali / Elli Ketetzian
Contrabass Konstantinos Sifakis / Alexandros Kokkinopoulos/ Ilya Algaer
Offenbach’s La belle Hélène – THE MOVIE
Music Kornilios Selamsis
Libretto Alexandra K*
Conductor Stathis Soulis
Director Yannis Kalavrianos
Sets, costumes, video animation Petros Touloudis
Choreography, movement training Marianna Kavallieratou
Lighting designer Nikos Vlasopoulos
Assistant to the director Giorgos Papadakis
Assistant to the set and costume designer Giouli Stylianidou
Chorister musical training Christos Sakellaridis, Spyros Souladakis
Cast
Hélène Maria Tsironi
Bacchis Marialena Politi
Pâris Katerina Alexiou
Achille Katerina Botoni
Ajax Antonis Antoniadis
Ménélas Nikos Ziaziaris
Agamemnon Christos Rammopoulos
Calchas Nikolas Karagiaouris
Instrumental ensemble
Flute Konstantinos Margaris
Clarinet Ilias Skordilis
Saxophone Guido de Flaviis
Trombone Ioannis Kokkoris
Percussion Panagiotis Koliavasilis
Piano Tzeni Soulkouki
Violin Zisimos Soulkoukis
Viola Eleni Fourlanou
Violoncello Maria Skandali
Contrabass Konstantinos Sifakis
Producers: Phaedra Vokali / Thodoris Markou / Orestis Plakias
Executive Producer: Stelios Kotionis
Director: Kostis Theodosopoulos
Director of Photography: Thodoris Markou
Artistic Director: Petros Touloudis
Edit: Gevi Dimitrakopoulou
Production Manager: George Zervas
Make up artists: Angelica Mouschiadou, Nikoleta Lymperopoulou
Sound engineer: Aris Pavlidis
Image Post-Production: Thodoris Markou & Foss Productions
Audio Post-Production: Foss Productions
Assistant Director: Evdokia Kalamitsi
First Cameraman: Konstantinos Kalavrezos
Second Cameraman: Alexandros Masmanidis
Cameraman: Yiannis Papanastassopoulos
Making of: Amalia Kovaiou
Gaffer VangelisKontodimos
Electrician- Plateau Theodosios Kostis
Assistant sound engineer Dimitra Xeroutsikou
Assistant Production Manager: Savvas Katirtzidis
Production Assistant: Andreas Leftheriotis
Production Secretary: Anna Loudarou
Studio: BSK Deck
Film Equipment Rental: DK
Sound Equipment Rental: Hi Fi Power Ltd
Equipment Rental Video Projections: Art of Sound
Video Projections: Thodoris Vasilopoulos
Video Projections Assistant: George Vasilopoulos
Video Projections Assistant: Chrysothemis Loukatou
Catering: A. Tsichlias & Co.
Insurance: Central Keystone, Aristomenis Tsioupelis
Legal Advisor: Sofia Tepelou
Production Accounting Department: Jenny Eforakopoulou
Payroll Manager Despina Sousamoglou
Payroll Assistant: Eleni Outsiankousi
Filming took place at Studio BSK on January 27, 28 & 29, 2023
Recording took place at Antart Studios on 12, 13 & 14 January 2023
Sound engineering and sound mixing: Nikos Kollias
Editing: Sotiris Ziliaskopoulos
OPERA BOX
Motion picture production: Foss Productions
Project development and management Tool EPE: Kostas Karachalios (Project Management), Anna Kotzambassi (Project Management)
Website development Tool EPE: Theodosia Theoharidou (Developer), Yiannis Argyriou (Front end developer), Alkis Vourekas(Content editor, Testing)
Art direction BEND IKE: Odysseas Tsolkas, Giorgos Axiotis, Victor Gogas, Marilia Kapetanaki, Marikaiti Nikolakaki
Animation studio ODD BLEAT IKE: Giannis Zoumakis (Creative Direction, Art Direction, Illustrations), Manos Gerogiannis (Creative Direction, Art Direction / Animation), Spyros Laurent (Illustration, Animation), Marianna Papachristodoulou (specifications), MD Recording Studi (Nikos Michalodimitrakis) (Sound Design, Mixing, Mastering)
Game development eNVy softworks IKE: Panagiotis Sakaridis (Programming), Konstantinos Mourelas (Technical Art, Level Design), Vassilios Karavasilis (Game Design, Writing)
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Monday, 13 November 2023 12:57
Music, Dance and Movement Workshops in Penitentiaries
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
The GNO Learning & Participation Department continues for one more year its music, dance, and movement workshops in even more penitentiaries across Greece. These workshops are organized with the goal of promoting the importance of artistic education and contact with the arts in penitentiaries and enhancing the participants’ creativity and free expression. In this season, the workshops will be realized with the support of the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation in the Female Penitentiary of Eleonas in Thebes, the Male Wing of Korydallos Penitentiary I, the Special Youth Detention Centers in Avlonas and Volos and the Penitentiary of Chania. After a series of weekly meetings, each of these workshops will come complete with the presentation of the artistic result of each creative trajectory.
Music Workshops in the Male Wing of Korydallos Penitentiary I
Through improvisation, participants will experiment with sound and music, develop performance skills and co-create new compositions. The workshop’s main goal is to cultivate creativity, group spirit and free expression. It will come complete with a concert, in which participants themselves will perform their own music pieces.
Planning / Implementation: Maria-Christina Harper (composer/music therapist), Andreas Gyftakis (musician)
Final performance date: T.B.A.
Music Workshop in the Penitentiary of Chania
Using strings and percussion, participants will embark on a journey across the traditional folk music of the wider Mediterranean region. Through a melodic wandering across their homelands they will remember, converse and work collectively. The workshop’s main goal is to cultivate communication, creativity, team spirit and free expression, as well as to enhance the contact with the participants’ roots. It will come complete with a concert given with the participation of the workshop’s members.
Planning/Implementation: Giannis Papatzanis (musician), Stelios Sykakis (musician)
Final performance date: T.B.A.
Movement and Dance Workshop in the Female Penitentiary of Eleonas in Thebes
Participants will be invited to activate their bodies and develop their creativity, work as a team and interact with each other, but also to explore dance as a way to bring joy and well-being, and unleash expression. The workshop will come complete with the presentation of a single dance-theatre performance, which will result from the blend of the original choreographies that will be co-created by the participants through guided physical exercises.
Planning/Implementation: Katerina Spyropoulou (dancer, choreographer), Margarita Trikka (dancer)
Final performance date: T.B.A.
Movement and Dance Workshop in the Special Youth Detention Center in Avlonas
Through hip hop and break dance techniques, participants will explore movement improvisation, learn how to express themselves through dance, and improve their musical motor skills. The workshop’s primary goal is to become a space of fertile discussion and exchange of ideas, knowledge and inspiration, in an effort to promote collaborative culture, meaningful communication among the prisoners, and free expression. The workshop will come complete with a presentation, in which prisoners will synchronize their moves to the rhythm and perform their own choreographies.
Planning / Implementation: Elias Hadjigeorgiou (dancer, choreographer), Aidi Ormeni (dancer)
Final performance date: T.B.A.
Movement and Dance Workshop in the Special Youth Detention Center in Volos
Participants will be taught movement motifs of modern dance and break dance and will work as a team to express themselves freely and co-create their own material. Through a collaborative creation process, they will cultivate mutual respect, regardless of their differences, develop creative thinking and individual skills, and boost their own confidence. Moreover, they will discover their body’s movement limitations and acquire a better perception of space through different movement levels and directions.
Planning / Implementation: Dimokritos Sifakis (dancer), Dimitris-Evangelos Dokouzis (dancer)
Final performance date: T.B.A.
Donor to the educational programme in penitentiaries
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Monday, 13 November 2023 12:38
Co-OPERAtive: An intercultural and collaborative opera hub for young people
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
Intercultural opera hub for a mixed group of 30 Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 14-18 from across Attica
In collaboration with Kinoniko EKAV and European Expression
The established intercultural opera hub for teenagers Co-OPERAtive returns for a fourth year. The programme, awarded the 2019 Fedora Education Prize, draws inspiration from opera and foregrounds the importance of interculturalism in art as a factor that facilitates artistic creation and bridges cultural differences. The participants in the mixed group of the 30 young Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 14 to 18 will be urged to produce their own ideas, express themselves artistically, and pit themselves against the creative process of making a music theatre work, which they will then be called upon to present on the GNO Alternative Stage in May 2024.
Creative team
Score: Panos Iliopoulos
Direction: Argyro Chioti
Sets, costumes: Pavlos Thanopoulos
Music workshops leader: Nikos Ziaziaris
Theatre workshops leader: Eleni Moleski
Dance workshops leader: Katerina Gevetzi
Starts on: Monday 16 October 2023
Day & hour: Mondays, 17.30-20.30
Age group: 14 to 18 year-olds
Performance date: Friday 31 May 2024
In collaboration with
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Monday, 13 November 2023 12:35
Intercultural Choir
Written by Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή - Greek National Opera
This year, for a seventh consecutive year, the Intercultural Choir will continue expanding its repertoire by combining songs from the world’s folk traditions with modern vocal music. The connection of the voice with the body, movement and improvisation, will become for yet another year the basic tools for musical co-creation and free expression. For the Intercultural Choir’s new season, the GNO Learning & Participation Department has programmed new partnerships, as well as concerts within and outside Athens. The first of them will be given on Saturday 2 December in Vamvakou (Laconia) in collaboration with the Vamvakou Revival project, as part of the Christmas Celebration Events organized with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Choir mistress: Anna Linardou
Assistant to the maestro / Piano accompaniment: Dimitra Kokkinopoulou
Orchestrations: Vasso Dimitriou
Rehearsals start on: Monday 25 September 2023
Day & hours of rehearsals: Mondays, 18.30-20.30
The concert in Vamvakou (Laconia) is realized in collaboration with
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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
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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
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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
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
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