GREEK OPERA FESTIVAL 2016
Under the auspices of the
Region of Central Macedonia
and the Club for UNESCO of
Piraeus & Islands
PROMETHEUS BOUND by Aeschylus
Music by PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS
Directed by VASSILIS
ASIMAKOPOULOS
Friday, September 30, 2016,
8pm
Ancient Roman Agora Theatre
Skull of Yorick Productions,
Thessaloniki
Prometheus: Vassilis Asimakopoulos, bass
Io: Irene Konsta, soprano
Oceanid / Hera: Vanessa Kalkanis, soprano
Violence /Athena: Kassandra Dimopoulou, mezzo
Ocean / Hermes: Philip Modinos, tenor
Amfitrite: Katerina Makri, soprano
Orchestra Skull of Yorick
Productions
under the direction of
Eleftherios Kalkanis
Aeschylus' masterpiece “Prometheus Bound” in opera:
The
lyric tragedy "Prometheus Bound" is the first Greek popular opera
presented internationally and always with great success in areas such as the
Sorbonne, Place des Arts in Canada, Epidaurus, UN, getting rave reviews.
The
opera is based on the tragedy of Aeschylus 'Prometheus Bound' translated by
Gryparis, and presented with costumes in a theatrical form.
Prometheus
was presented in Montreal, Canada in 1994 and performed intermittently in
French until 2000. In 2008 moved to New York and Washington under the direction
of maestro Grant Gilman. In Greece Prometheus ascended at the Little Theatre of
Ancient Epidaurus, Theatre of Ancient Messene, Ancient Agora, National Archaeological
Museum, Theatre Veakeio, International Petra Festival, Theatre Saras
Markopoulo, in the Municipal Theatres Cholargos, Corinth, Halkida, Argostoli,
Ithaka, Zakynthos, in Peristeri Park, at the Hall of Society of Greek Writers,
Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Evripidio Theatre of Salamis Island, Theatre
"Jenny Karezi", Tsagarada Pelion, etc.
With
the patronage of UNESCO was presented in March 2014 in New York City in Queens
Auditorium and the UN starring Vassilis Asimakopoulos representing Greece at the
UN, and in the Amphitheater Richelieu of the Sorbonne in Paris, presented by
Ioannis Maronitis, President of the Club for
UNESCO Piraeus & Islands and Member of the Executive Council of the
World Federation Clubs, Associations & UNESCO Centres (WFUCA) for Europe
and North America.
Under
the direction of conductor Eleftherios Kalkanis presented at the Third
Programme of Greek National Radio-Television ERT, the Concert Hall of Literary
Society "Parnassos", and in the Old Parliament House of Greece.
The opera "Prometheus Bound" Panagiotis Karousos
has created a unique story in Greek opera. For the first time a Greek opera
itself becomes popular. The work expresses the voice of the popular fighter
giving hope and courage in the social and moral decadence. The rebel Prometheus
brings the fire of knowledge, and the universal message of resistance against
all sorts of tyrannical powers. In today's violent and turbulent era hero
Prometheus brings a message of hope. Not only the high lyricism of Aeschylus
and the symbolism of Prometheus the Titan touched both the world, but is the
inspired music creation of Panagiotis Karousos that awakening primordial
feelings unseen to listeners.
The
kind of opera has global reach and visibility and is not kind of fun but
instructive, uplifting spiritual and mental progress, the work is a great
contribution to the culture of humanity, as an achievement of the human mind,
with deep roots in ancient Greek tragedy.
