Blessed Are the Breasts That Never Gave Suck…

Karyofyllia Karabeti
Graduated from the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. She has performed principal roles in works such as Oresteia, The Persians (Aeschylus), Antigone, Electra, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles), Medea, Helen, Electra, Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Hercules Furens, The Trojan Women, Bacchae (Euripides), The Clouds (Aristophanes), The Tempest, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III (Shakespeare), Three Sisters, The Seagull (Chekhov), Three Tall Women (Albee), Lulu (Wedekind), Heldenplatz (Bernhard), Mourning Becomes Electra (O’Neill), Miss Julie (Strindberg), The Threepenny Opera (Brecht), La Chunga (Llosa), Civilisation, a Cosmic Tragedy (Dimitris Dimitriadis), Ramona Travel (Glykeria Basdeki) etc. She has participated in international tours of the National Theatre of Greece performing roles such as Medea of Euripides, Electra of Sophocles and Clytemnestra from Sophocles’ Electra. She starred in the films: The Murderess, Man of God, Eftyhia, The Bachelor, Eleftheri Katadysi, The Beekeeper etc. She played in the TV series: Floga & Anemos, Agapi Paranomi, Astheneis kai Odoiporoi, I Agapi Argise Mia Mera, Vammena Kokkina Mallia, O Kitrinos Fakelos etc.

Markellos Chryssicos

He studied harpsichord with Margarita Dalmati at the Vignanelli School of Athens, from which he received his diploma with distinctions and first prize. He continued his studies in Paris with Salvo Romeo and Olivier Baumont, at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg with Kenneth Gilbert and Siegbert Rampe and completed his studies at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève with Christiane Jaccottet (Prix de virtuosité avec distinction). As assistant conductor to George Petrou, he has participated in several award-winning recordings for MDG, Decca and Sony. He is a founding member of the early music ensembles Ex Silentio and Latinitas Nostra with whom he has recorded and mounted staged Baroque works as well as original productions based on the dialogue between the Baroque and other music genres. He has conducted the Venice Baroque Orchestra in a double CD recording based on Metastasio’s libretto L’Olimpiade (Naïve) which was awarded the international Choc Musique. He regularly conducts the Armonia Atenea and has collaborated with the Athens State Orchestra and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra as well as with such music ensembles as the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Bach Consort Wien, Kammerakademie Potsdam. He has been invited to the Kammeroper Wien for three consecutive years. He has conducted at the Theater an der Wien, Wigmore Hall, Bayreuth Opera and Handel Festival in Halle. He has curated and presented Palimpsest, a broadcast for the Third Programme of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.

Panos Iliopoulos

Born in Greece, where he studied piano, music theory and composition, as well as musicology at the Music Studies Department of the National University of Athens. He subsequently studied composition and piano at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim, as well as harpsichord and historical keyboard instruments at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. As a composer, arranger and performer he has participated in numerous concerts, festivals, theatre and opera productions across Europe such as the Greek National Opera, Athens Epidaurus Festival, National Theatre of Greece, Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht, Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Vienna Konzerthaus, Theater an der Wien, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, collaborating with orchestras and ensembles such as the Geneva Camerata, New Philharmonic Utrecht, Netherlands Bach Society, Camerata – Armonia Atenea, the Athens State Orchestra and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, and has been featured in broadcasts and recordings of several state broadcasting corporations, as well as the record labels Etcetera, Passacaille and Puzzlemusik.