Ten days of free performances about the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution on GNO TV

Despo & Greek Dances
Kolokotronis Contemplating the Future Women Preparing for the Revolution and I’ll Be Thinking of Something
Miniatures for Revolution

A while before 2021 comes to an end, the Greek National Opera presents three productions created as part of the tribute to the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution for free on GNO TV, from December 10 through December 20.  The programme includes the double bill of opera and dance Despo – Greek Dances that was presented in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the GNO, the production Kolokotronis Contemplating the Future Women Preparing for the Revolution and I’ll Be Thinking of Something that was presented on the Alternative Stage, and a remarkable commission from the GNO Learning & Participation Department that will now make its debut, the video dance festival Miniatures for Revolution. The programme, part of a tribute to the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) [www.SNF.org].

Two highly successful productions that were presented in the Stavros Niarchos Hall and on the Alternative Stage, along with the premiere of a new video dance festival, are coming to GNO TV for free from 10 to 20 December, to mark the end of the tribute to the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution. More specifically:

Paolo Carrer’s Despo and Nikos Skalkottas’ Greek Dances were filmed in the Stavros Niarchos Hall, conducted by Yorgos Ziavras. They form a double bill of opera and dance, featuring the Orchestra, Chorus, Ballet and Soloists of the GNO. Nikos Skalkottas’ Greek Dances, combining the language of modernism with elements from Greek folk music, was choreographed anew for the Ballet of the Greek National Opera by Patricia Apergi (National Adulthood) and RootlessRoot – Linda Kapetanea, Jozef Fruček (Finality). Paolo Carrer’s opera Despo, directed by Yorgos Nanouris, is considered to be the “first Hellenic tragic melodrama” and is based upon Antonios Manousos’ one act play The Heroic Death of Despo and her Daughters-in-Law in Dimoulas’ Castle.

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Michail Marmarinos and Akillas Karazisis’ performance Kolokotronis Contemplating the Future Women Preparing for the Revolution and I’ll Be Thinking of Something was filmed on the Alternative Stage. The production attempts to approach the Greek Revolution as a diverse field of constant critique and self-criticism and to propose a stage reading that treats the subject in a playful, poetic but also historically informed way, through a theatrical language that blends stage and sound media into unexpected and modernistic combinations.

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The video dance festival Miniatures for Revolution is the new production of the GNO Learning & Participation Department. Inspired by the idea of revolution, five young composers and five young choreographers worked together to create short music and dance works (miniatures). The miniatures were captured in original videos that will be broadcast on GNO TV.  The production was realised in collaboration with the GNO Ballet and the Intercultural Orchestra of the GNO Learning & Participation Department. Five film-makers as well as young professional dancers also took part in the production.

Artistic Planning:

GNO Learning & Participation Department

Konstantinos Rigos, GNO Ballet Director

1. haul

Choreography – Director: Vassia Zorbali

Music: Stavros Markonis

Cinematography – Editing: Antigone Davaki

2. KADIN

Choreography: Nikos Kalivas

Music: Ioannis Angelakis

Video – Editing: Grigoris Morikis

3. FUGA

Choreography: Myrto Grapsa

Music: Stamatis Pasopoulos

Director: Panagiotis Kostouros

4. CHTHON

Choreography: Anastasia Pattelaki

Music: Yiannis Maramathas

Director: Dimosthenis Grivas

5. BATTLE OF FISHES

Choreography – Director – Costume coordination: Ioanna Paraskevopoulou

Music: Sofia Zafeiriou

Director of photography – Cinematography – Editing: Chrysanthi Badeka

Find detailed information about the festival here: https://rebrand.ly/01xqp0g

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GNO TV is part of a new strand of programming of the Greek National Opera made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) [www.SNF.org] to enhance the Greek National Opera’s artistic outreach.

Lead donor to the GNO & the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)