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Opera Interactively Into Schools

My relationship with this world until now but also the nature
of the work’s storyline itself, with the legend of the Helen
of Troy and all the other elements that resulted from the
creative process with the rest of the team, made me try and
combine things in this direction, to solve the new “equation”
in terms of aesthetics and meaning. We worked with a
sense of balance and an intention to respect, I believe, while
having in mind a result that would not be imposed on any
new audiences who haven’t chosen to watch the work with
demands and a fixed mindset, but rather with an intent to
identify questions that should be discussed.
I am fortunate to be able to work on such a difficult and
demanding production in many respects, but mostly for the
chance to come in contact, through my work, with the most
difficult and at the same time most sincere audience there
is in the performing arts. The feeling I get when I watch the
performance at schools is that I can see the work with bigger
clarity, and this is how I realise that something is in its proper
place.
— Petros Touloudis