THE TALISMAAAAAAAAAAAAN in an impressive sound art performance

GNO Learning & Participation Department

THE TALISMAAAAAAAAAAAAN

Sound art performance – Interactive musical fairy tale

Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera

4 June 2022

Starts at: 18.30

Original composition, coordinator, ensemble director: Dimitra Trypani

Free admission upon priority vouchers that will be distributed from 1st June at 12.00, exclusively via ticket services.

The Learning & Participation Department of the Greek National Opera presents the new interactive musical fairy tale THE TALISMAAAAAAAAAAAAN, composed and conducted by Dimitra Trypani, in an impressive sound art performance that will be held on Saturday 4 June 2022 at 18:30 and will start with a fascinating workshop with audience participation, in the GNO Stavros Niarchos Hall at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).

THE TALISMAAAAAAAAAAAAN – inspired by known Greek folk fairy tales – is set on the island of Paxi and tells the story of a fisherman who becomes rich thanks to a magic little fish that gets caught on his hook. Yet Fate has different plans for him…

The performance is the result of a nine-month-long educational programme of interdisciplinary artistic and pedagogical action of the same title that aspires to bring educators and primary school students of the Region of Attica in contact with the magical world of music theatre through contemporary and innovative tools. This year, the programme was realised for a second consecutive year in collaboration with thirteen primary schools, including the Special Primary School of Penteli.

The interactive musical fairy tale will be presented with the participation of fourteen teachers, five acclaimed musicians and more than two hundred students, offering an unforgettable viewing and listening experience, during which audience members will have the unique chance to work together with the young and older performers and to become an active part of the performance itself.

The successful programme was launched last year with the musical fairy tale for nine voices and chamber ensemble How Did A Raven End Up In The Belly Of The Whale?, which is available to watch online for free at nationalopera.gr/GNOTV.

Participation in the workshop is optional.

Admission will be free upon priority vouchers that will be distributed from 1st June at 12.00, exclusively via ticket services.

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

A few words about the educational programme

The nine-month-long educational programme of interdisciplinary artistic and pedagogical action for Primary Schools was run for a second consecutive year by the GNO Learning & Participation Department – this time titled THE TALISMAAAAAAAAAAAAN. The programme, making use of Dimitra Trypani’s acoustic “restart” method “From Ear to Body”, aims at spreading knowledge and tools that can be used by teachers and students in school events, cultivating new artistic and creative skills, and familiarising students with the performing arts through their active involvement in the preparation process of a music theatre performance. The sound art performance THE TALISMAAAAAAAAAAAAN is the fruit of this year’s workshop cycle that was held with the participation of thirteen schools, fourteen teachers, five acclaimed musicians and about two hundred students.

GNO Learning & Participation Department

THE TALISMAAAAAAAAAAAAN

Sound art performance – Interactive musical fairy tale

Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera– SNFCC

4 June 2022

Starts at: 18.30

Original composition, coordinator, ensemble director: Dimitra Trypani

Creative team

Conductor Dimitra Trypani

Stage props design: School students, Christina Spanou

Lighting design Kostas Bethanis

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

Filming Grigoris Panopoulos

Camera operators Rafael Samaras, Antonis Pontikis, Giorgos Nikopoulos

Production GNO Learning and Participation

With the participation of an instrumental ensemble – Sofia Alifieraki (flute), Gogo Xagara (harp), Panagiotis Tziotis (violin), Ivi Papathanasiou (cello), Antonis Vasileiadis (percussion)

With the participation of the following Schools:

Special Primary School of Penteli, 1st Primary School of Athens, 4th Primary School of Athens, 9th Primary School of Athens, 21^st Primary School of Athens “Lela Karayianni”, 38^th Primary School of Piraeus, 3^d Primary School of Aghia Paraskevi, 19^th Primary School of Egaleo, 13^th Primary School of Ilion, 13^th Primary School of Korydallos, 15^th Primary School of Peristeri, 10^th Primary School of Haidari, 3^d Primary School of Aspropyrgos

With the support of

Educational Programme Sponsor

GNO Learning and Participation major donor