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The Intercultural Choir project of the GNO Learning & Participation Department continues for a sixth year. After a long pause in live meetings, old and new members from every corner of the earth will once again join their voices into a unique musical journey without borders. For this year’s season the Intercultural Choir will be conducted by distinguished singer Anna Linardou. The Intercultural Choir already has more than 30 members. Ukraine, Cameroon, Slovakia, Tanzania, New Guinea, Syria, Cyprus, United Kingdom, France, USA, Iran, Kenya, Iraq, and Greece are only some of the countries of origin of those who have participated in the Choir. Its repertoire is getting constantly expanded and enriched with wonderful songs from the traditional folk music of its members’ homelands.
Choir mistress: Anna Linardou
Assistant choir mistress/Piano accompaniment: Dimitra Kokkinopoulou
Start of the programme: 4 October 2021
Implementation schedule: Mondays, 18.30 – 20.00
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A new intercultural workshop is born from the GNO Learning & Participation Department. Its members will have a background in intercultural, traditional and folk dance genres, but also in genres such as street dance, jazz, tap dance etc. Under the guidance of the workshop’s leader/choreographer the members of the Intercultural Dance Group will work together to exchange experiences and skills and to form an original dance group, in which traditions from diverse cultures will converse with contemporary creation.
Planning/Implementation: Polina Kremasta
Assistant to the choreographer: Thenia Antoniadou
Starts: 15 November 2021
Implementation schedule: Mondays, 18.00 – 21.00
More information as well as an open call for participants will be announced soon.
In collaboration with the Embassy of Indonesia in Greece
The GNO Learning & Participation Department in collaboration with the Embassy of Indonesia in Athens continue the Gamelan Orchestra workshop, which first started in January 2020 and was abruptly interrupted due to the pandemic.
The goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to the Gamelan musical tradition through its unexpected conversation with the contemporary classical music repertoire, and to create the first Indonesian orchestra in Greece. Participants will get to know the musical instruments of a Gamelan ensemble and will familiarise themselves with the particularities of the form and rhythm of this musical tradition by performing Indonesian traditional folk songs as well as a contemporary Gamelan music work written by composer and workshop leader Andys Skordis.
Starting from the Gamelan musical tradition and focusing on its social dimensions, interaction and communication among the participants will be the key ingredient for the workshop’s musical outcome, which is expected to give a new form and style to the Indonesian traditional folk music.
The workshops will run for two weeks, after which the Gamelan orchestra will give a single concert in the hall of the Parnassos Literary Society, on Sunday 17 April 2022 at 20.00.
More information about the concert will be announced soon.
Workshop leader / score: Andys Skordis
Friday, 15 October 2021 14:50
Co-OPERAtive: An intercultural and collaborative opera hub for young people
Written by vaios
An intercultural opera hub for a mixed group of 30 young Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 14-18 from across Attica.
The Co-OPERAtive programme, awarded with the Fedora Education Prize 2019, is an intercultural opera hub for a mixed group of young Athenians and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged 14-18 from across Attica. It is inspired by opera, which serves as a common language for the creation of the first intercultural opera hub for young people in Europe. Co-OPERAtive’s goal is to expand opera’s impact and make it more known to the younger audiences, while bringing out cultural diversity and social cohesion.
Implementation: Themelis Glynatsis, Andys Skordis
Music workshop leaders: Nikos Ziaziaris, Katerina Gevetzi
Theatre workshop leaders: Panagiotis Exarcheas, Eleni Moleski
Movement workshop leader: Katerina Gevetzi
Starts: 28 February 2022
Ages: 14-18 years old
Final performance: Untitled For Now: An Old Fable, 3 July 2022 at 20.30, GNO Alternative Stage
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Music theatre performance
Untitled For Now: An Old Fable
Greek National Opera Alternative Stage – SNFCC
Sunday 3 July 2022
Starts at: 20.30
Musical composition, conductor: Andys Skordis
Director: Themelis Glynatsis
With the participation of a mixed group of Athenian teenagers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors from the accommodation facilities of Kinoniko EKAV and European Expression
Sets & costume designer: Christina Spanou
Video: Marios Gampierakis, Chrysoula Korovesi
Lighting designer: Stella Kaltsou
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A ballet workshop for children, teenagers, adults
For a second year children, teenagers and adults will experience the magical world of classical dance through a workshop that will be held on the occasion of the production of The Nutcracker, which is set to premiere in the GNO Stavros Niarchos Hall at the SNFCC on 17/12 with a new choreography by GNO Ballet Director Konstantinos Rigos. Meet the Nutcracker is a workshop held in collaboration with the GNO Ballet and led by the GNO Ballet principal dancers that aims at introducing participants into one of the most popular and enduringly enchanting ballets in the repertoire, for children and grown-ups alike. In its original two-act version, with a choreography by Lev Ivanov, a libretto by Marius Petipa, and music by Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker was first performed at the Mariinsky Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg on 18 December 1892.
Planning/Implementation: Elena Andreoudi & Vangelis Bikos
Implementation schedule (dates): 28 November & 5 December 2021
Ages: 28/11 12 to 14 years old & 5/12 15 to 18 years old
Implementation schedule (hours): 11:00 – 13:00
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A co-production of the GNO Learning & Participation Department and the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People
Τhe GNO Learning & Participation Department in a co-production with the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People invites Junior High School students to participate in the new educational workshop titled Opera Filmmakers. It is an experiential filmmaking workshop during which children will peep into a real theatre backstage and capture on camera secrets from the different stages of the process of creating an opera performance.
The workshop will be conducted in four meetings (16, 23 October & 6,14 November 2021) of four hours each. Its participants will form a short film production group, and the film they will create will enter the 24th Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People (27/11-4/12/2021).
With a camera at hand participants will wander the backstage of the Greek National Opera at the SNFCC, will unlock the theatre costume and prop rooms, will observe the operation of the mechanisms supporting this grand-scale theatrical stage and will peep into a rehearsal.
During this process, children will get acquainted with the language of cinema, its means of expression, and the techniques and basic principles of directing. They will also be guided through the selected subject and will learn how to draft a screenplay. Moreover, they will be involved in the organisation of the shooting and will share the roles of a film crew before and behind the camera.
Planning & Implementation: GNO Learning and Participation Department & Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People
Implementation schedule (dates): 16, 23 October & 6,14 November 2021
Implementation schedule (hours): 12.00 – 16.00 (hours may change)
Participants: 12 Junior High School students
Workshop leader: Chrysanthi Badeka
Using Erling Eriksson’s animation box along with some more simple applications as a main instrument, this experiential workshop will introduce students to animation and teach them how to tell a short story in two or three dimensions with simple techniques (cut out animation, claymation, two-dimensional painting). Inspired by Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker participants will create a short stop motion animation under the guidance of the Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People’s team.
Implementation schedule (dates): 18 & 19 December 2021
Implementation schedule (hours): 10.00-13.00
Participants: 12 students of the 4th, 5th and 6th Grade of Primary School
Workshop leader: TBA
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*Participants will have to attend the whole workshop cycle.
A dance games workshop for fathers with children aged 6 to 12
The successful ballet workshop that enthralled children and…daddies comes back for one more season. Once again, the Learning & Participation Department invites daddies to dance with their children, perform ballet figures, find out their balance limitations and discuss with their partners through movement and dance. Two precious hours full of motor activities, improvisations and games.
An invitation to dance not to be missed!
Planning/ Implementation: TBA
Ages: 6 to 12 years old
Implementation schedule (dates): 10 & 17 April 2022
Implementation schedule (hours): 11.00 – 13.00
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A stop motion animation workshop with props for children aged 8 to 12
Inspired by Giuseppe Verdi’s timeless opera Rigoletto, the GNO Learning & Participation Department creates a multidimensional learning and creating workshop. Its goal is to make children discover the opera, and drawing upon its musical themes to portray the story through the stop motion animation technique. At the same time they will learn simple techniques that they’ll also be able to use at home.
Children will bring props from the GNO prop storage room to life and will tell their own version of the story reintroducing thus Rigoletto to the audience.
Planning/Implementation: Christina Spanou
Ages: 8 to 12 years ols
Implementation schedule (dates):14, 15, 21, 22 May 2022
Implementation schedule (hours): 10.00-13.00
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* Participants will have to attend the whole workshop cycle.
Activities for children inspired by the new production The Magic Pillows.
The famous, much-translated and award-winning story by Eugene Trivizas is adapted by the author himself for the first time into an opera for the whole family set to premiere in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the GNO at the SNFCC in November 2021. On the occasion of this new fascinating GNO production, ten children aged 8 to 11 will have the unique chance to experience a sleepover in the Greek National Opera at the SNFCC. Music and movement workshops, dressing-up as characters inspired by the performance, a thematic dinner and breakfast accompanied by a small musical ensemble, and storytelling are just some of the activities, in which the children who will spend the night at the Opera will participate.
Planning/Implementation: Eugene Trivizas & TBA
Ages: 8 to 11 years old
Implementation schedule: 4, 5 December 2021
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A music-motor education workshop for infants and preschoolers with the accompaniment of live instrumental music from four different eras
A project that awakens the motor and auditory development of infants and preschoolers through four periods of music - baroque, classicism, romanticism and 20th-century music - with an approach that includes parent participation. Through music and movement games children discover different timbres and styles and get acquainted with the sound of classical music and the main families of musical instruments.
Age groups: Group A: 1 to 2,5 years and Group B: 2,5 to 4 years
The presence of at least one parent is necessary for both age groups.
Planning/Implementation: Daphne Tsiouni (music educator / sound artist), Anna Serkedaki (flutist, music educator)
Musicians: 17/10 Baroque: George Goumenakis - mandolino, Stavros Parginos – cello • 24/10 Classical: Vanesa Athanasiou – violin, Periclis Timpalexis – violin, Elissavet Skoura - viola, Elli Filippou - cello • 31/10 Romantic: Stella Nikolaidi – oboe, Chrysa Grenda – piano • 7/11 20th-Century: Stavros Kollias - piano
Implementation schedule (dates): 17 October-Baroque / 24 October – Classical / 31 October – Romantic / 7 November – 20th-Century
Implementation schedule (hours): Group A: 10.00-10.45 & Group B: 11.15-12.00
The Greek National Opera Learning & Participation Department continues for a second year its pilot programme of artistic and pedagogical activities with a new workshop titled The Talisman.
The Talisman comes as a continuation of last year’s successful programme How Did A Raven End Up In The Belly Of The Whale?, which was conducted and curated by Dimitra Trypani and came complete with the filming of the musical tale’s presentation in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the GNO at the SNFCC (May 2021), featuring 130 students, teachers, musicians and soloists. The musical tale How Did A Raven End Up In The Belly Of The Whale? is available to watch for free at nationalopera.gr/GNOTV with Greek and English subtitles until 31/12.
The programme is targeted at schools of primary education in the Region of Attica and aspires to bring primary school educators and students in contact with the fascinating world of music theatre through the use of modern and innovative tools. Its goal is to help participants acquire basic technical skills and introduce them into the creative process of preparing a music theatre performance. Upon the completion of the workshops, the final result will be presented before a wide audience in the Stavros Niarchos Hall in June 2022.
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
Coordination manager: Dimitra Trypani
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
Starts: 9 October 2021
Implementation schedule: Saturdays, 10.00 – 12.00
The programme is sponsored by
Inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s (1858-1924) timeless opera Madama Butterfly, the Learning & Participation department creates a multi-dimensional learning and creating workshop. The goal of the workshop is for children to discover the work, and drawing on elements from its musical themes and Japanese aesthetic, to portray its story through the stop motion animation technique.
Using props from the GNO props storage facility, participants will propose their own scenographic approach to the work, creating images inspired by the drama’s characters, landscapes, colours and musicality. The results of this dialogue of children with the opera world will be captured in film, introducing us a new version of Madama Butterfly.
The workshop is for children aged from 8 to 12 years.
Planning/ Implementation: Christina Spanou (visual artist / educator)
Implementation schedule: 4, 11, 18 October 2020 (10.30-13.30)
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For a second year in a row, GNO’s Learning & Participation Department invites dads and their children for a ballet workshop. The aim of the workshop is for the participants to explore their skills and enhance their relationship through kinetic activities, improvisation and movement games. But above all, the aim is to have fun and to dare to dance!
Design/Implementation: Olivia Thanasoula, Elina Tsimprou
Programme:
Sunday 15 December 2019
10:30-11:30 (children 6 - 7 year olds)
12:00-13:45 (children 7 - 9 year olds)
Sunday 22 December 2019
10:00-11:45 (children 9 - 11 year olds)
12:15-14:00 (παιδιά 11 - 12 year olds)
Information / Registration:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 213 088 5752 (Monday – Friday 10.00 – 18.00)
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