Despο: Greek Dances

Item

Title

Despο: Greek Dances

Creator

Greek National Opera

Spatial Coverage

Online

Athens See all items with this value Athens->Searchculture.gr

Relation

Greek National Opera programme

Subject - keywords

Opera

Traditional dances

Date

17 October 2021

23–24 October 2021

17 May–31 July 2021

Date Issued

2021

Abstract

"The Greek National Opera presents two remarkable works of the Ionian and National Schools of Music in a single bill of opera and dance with the participation of the Orchestra, Chorus, Ballet and Soloists of the GNO, as part of the tribute to the bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence. In the first part, Nikos Skalkottas’ Greek Dances, a fusion of modernistic and Greek folk music elements, is choreographed anew by Patricia Apergi and Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Fruček, and is presented under the baton of Yorgos Ziavras. The second part features Paolo Carrer’s opera Despo, which was based on Antonios Manousos’ one-act play The Heroic Death of Despo and Her Daughters-in-Law at Dimoulas’ Tower and regarded as the “first Hellenic tragic melodrama”, conducted by Yorgos Ziavras and directed by Yorgos Nanouris."
(Edited description from organiser’s website: https://2021.nationalopera.gr/art-never-ending-revolution)