The Greek National Opera has announced its 2021 lineup, a tribute program to the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution of 1821, which is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), greekcitytimes.com reports.
Eminent Greek and foreign artists collaborate with the GNO ensembles on new opera, ballet, and musical theatre productions, and concerts, attempting to raise questions and open discussions about the Greek Revolution as a historic event with a global impact, which is connected to the great revolutions that led to the formation of the modern-day great independent nation-states like, for example, the French and the American Revolutions.
Great repertoire operas such as Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Puccini’s Tosca, operas of the Ionian Music School such as Paolo Carrer’s Despo and Frossini, Vivaldi’s baroque opera Juditha Triumphans, Skalkottas’ Greek Dances and Mikis Theodorakis’ Zorba the Greek by the GNO Ballet, but also Manolis Kalomiris’ The Symphony of “Levendia“, film music works about the American Revolution, and the family opera The Magic Pillows compose the multi-dimensional tribute program that will be presented at the Stavros Niarchos Hall, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus and other unexpected places, such as, among others, the courtyard of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens.
As part of the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, the GNO has prepared a great retrospective of top Greek composers of different schools and idioms. In 2021 it will present important works of Manolis Kalomiris, Paolo Carrer, and Nikos Skalkottas, as well as works by younger composers such as Calliope Tsoupaki, George Dousis, Nikos Xydakis, Martha Mavroidi, Giorgos Tsontakis, Alexandros Mouzas, Dimitra Trypani, and more.
Beginning from 2021 and for the next three years, the Greek National Opera will celebrate the work of distinguished Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, with the presentation of a large part of his great works.
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