Resurrections are sacred events, whether or not they are explicitly religious in character. The first international premiere of the opera `Markos Botsaris’ at the Veakeio Municipal Theater of Piraeus on October 7 brought back to life both the musical work of art itself and the Hero of the Greek Revolution that it depicts.
In an opera, the musical sorcerers who raise the dead are the lead singers, and both Giannis Selitsaniotis, baritone with the Greek National Opera, and international soprano Eleni Calenos added their magic to the starlit night. But the event also revealed scholars of the School of Philosophy of the National and Capodistrian University (NCU) – the University was a co-presenter of the performance along with the Attiki Regional Government – to also be magicians as they re-discovered and restored a work that had been `lost’ for 150 years.
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