Festival Athens Epidaurus

Hellenic Festival S.A.
Board of Directors
Chairman
Yorgos Loukos
Vice-chairman
Loukas Tsoukalis
Members
Dakis Joannou Sandra Marinopoulou Takis Arapoglou Niki Tzouda Dimitris Passas
With the support of the Ministry of Culture & Tourism
We have to organize pessimism
hen we sat down to plan the 2011 Festival on paper, it quickly became clear that we had another difficult year ahead of us the third year of a profound crisis that has shown no signs of letting up; which extends beyond the economic to society, aesthetics and human relations; which has confronted contemporary Greece and we are not alone with a crisis of identity and orientation. What part can art and culture play when youre walking the tightrope of circumstance? What can you look ahead to, how optimistic can you be? We are convinced that art brings people closer together, that it can immunize us against the barbarism by providing a tool for seeing things anew. And today, more than ever before, we uphold the philosophy the Athens and Epidaurus Festival has espoused since 2006 in theatre, music, dance and the visual arts a rationale whose key concepts are diversity, a spirit of adventure, openness and acknowledging the publics need for real art, its thirst to commune with the new and the unfamiliar. We have insisted on the fundamental principles of a programme which allows Greek audiences to connect with landmark figures; with artists like the incurable theatre visionary, Ariane Mnouchkine, or the dancer Sylvie Guillem, whose genius gave her the courage to cross over from classical ballet into contemporary dance; with historic institutions like the Bolshoi and the Filarmonica della Scala, and with new ones like the Bridge Project, a collaboration of the Hellenic Festival with New York and London which received a rapturous reception the year before last and is returning to Epidaurus with two big names from Hollywood Sam Mendes and Kevin Spacey who will be meeting off screen and on stage in Richard III.
The Festival will once again be staging works by groundbreaking artists whose subversive approach helps make their art go further. The Iannis Xenakis Tribute clearly falls into this category, with its homage to a multifaceted composer and visionary who left his mark on the latter half of the 20th century, as does the most recent work from that reviver of the theatrical idiom, Romeo Castellucci. So do, too, the acerbic American in Europe, William Forsythe, the enfant terrible of video art, Doug Aitken, and Maguy Marin, whose latest offering, Salves, invokes Walter Benjamin, aptly adding to his insights: Acting on our pessimism and our fears, we so escape the pervading anxiety crushing us and rendering us powerless, miserable and weary. Our commitment to young artists is even more pronounced this year; it has to be, because if we get to see the world afresh, it will be through their eyes. They include Khar lampos Goy s, the genre-busting new media pioneers, drog_A_tek, and performers like Markellos Chrysikopoulos and Jrmie Rhorer, who have dedicated themselves to contemporary readings of the Baroque. Finally, as we have done every year, we have tried to register the Festival on a broader chronological continuum through the engaging of memory. Hence our tributes marking the tenth anniversary of the death of Iannis Xenakis and the bicentenary of the birth of Franz Liszt, our homages to Odysseas Elytis and Nikos Gatsos a hundred years after their birth, and our tribute to Gustav Mahler on the centenary of his death. Yorgos Loukos Chairman & Artistic Director
OPERA
1 & 3-5 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS
GREEK NATIONAL OPERA

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
PAGLIACCI
opera in two acts by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
Conducted by
Lukas Karytinos
Directed by
Graham Vick
Sets Costumes
George Souglides
Lighting design
Giuseppe Di Iorio
With
The Greek National Opera has opted to perform two operas at this years Athens Festival which epitomize Verismo, with all the love, hate and insane jealousy that comes with it. A popular operatic pairing, performed by big names from the Greek and international opera scene, the works offer sublime melodies, powerful plots, violent passions and intense emotions. In Cavalleria Rusticana (1890), a tranquillity of an Easter morning is shattered by a betrayed lover whose actions will end in tragedy. In Pagliacci (1892), though Canio adheres to the theatrical tradition that the show must go on, his desperation and humiliation lead him to a macabre end.
the Orchestra and Chorus of the Greek National Opera

Chorus master
Nikos Vassiliou ROSARTE Childrens Choir

Chorus master
Rosie Mastrosavva (Pagliacci)
In Italian with Greek surtitles
150, 120, 100, 85, 60, 55, 45, 42, 35, 32, 27, 25, 22, 20, 15, 12
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CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
SANTUZZA
Chariklia Mavropoulou
LOLA
Irini Karaianni (1, 4/6) Georgia Iliopoulou (3, 5/6)

TURRIDU
Rudy Park (1, 4/6) Angelo Simos (3, 5/6)

ALFIO
Dimitris Platanias (1, 4/6) Carlos Almaguer (3, 5/6)

LUCIA
Marita Paparizou
PAGLIACCI
CANIO
Stuart Neill
NEDDA
Elena Kelessidi
TONIO
Dimitris Platanias (1, 4/6) Carlos Almaguer (3, 5/6)

EPPE
Antonis Koroneos (1, 3, 5/6) Nikos Stefanou (4/6)

SILVIO
Dionisios Sourbis
THEATRE
IN A CARAVAN
1 & 2 JUNE / KOREAN MARKET
VAUDEVILLE
ONE NIGHT, JUST FOR YOU (RELOADED)
Last year, more than two thousand people thronged Thissions pedestrian walkway to be entertained and moved by the actors and singers who performed for two evenings on the stage of the Caravan. Well, the muchloved artists are back again this year, joining forces to make us a gift of another two nights of entertainment an antidote for our material and moral pain. Acting, singing and dancing, they use the simplest means to infuse with new life a deeply European form of music-theatre which once enjoyed days of glory on the Athens stage the variety show.
Presented & Directed by
Giorgos Nanouris
With
Christos Theodorou
at the piano
Free Entrance
10
THEATRE
9-11 & 15, 16 JUNE

PEIRAIOS 260 (WAREHOUSE)
THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES
DIRT
by Robert Schneider
The nexus of problems caused by the mass influx of immigrants into the city makes Athens today the ideal setting for Dirt. Directed by Vaggelis Theodoropoulos The protagonist, Sad, is a thirty year-old Arab living in Europe without papers. Sets Costumes
Translated by
Koralia Sotiriadou
Antonis Danglidis
Music
Stavros Gasparatos
Lighting
Sakis Birbilis
With
Giannos Perlengas
In the words of the plays director, who has been working in the sphere of the political theatre for several years now: He is the Other, the segregated, the foreigner whos responsible for everything dark and bad in our lives. Hes our neighbour in Berlin, in Vienna, in the suburbs of Paris, in downtown Athens.
20, Concs. 10
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INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE
2-4 JUNE /
BERNIER/ELIADES GALLERY
DROG_A_TEK / ERASERS
WE LOST CONTROL
72 mistakes in real time
The Athens Festival welcomes back the experiments of two alternative groups: drog_A_tek, a fluid musical ensemble which redefines itself in every performance, and the Erasers, a group that unites apparently different situations. Working together, they will create, edit and broadcast auditory and visual works in real time. In their everevolving 72-hour live studio, they will film a movie, publish a fanzine, record a musical or social dialogue, paint the walls, push the audio or lighting systems past their limits or come up with new ones. Sacrificing control, they develop a live composition and decomposition of sounds and images using the most disparate and unusual media.
Co-production BERNIER/ELIADES GALLERY
12:00 - 20:00 Live installation 20:00 - 24:00 Live performance

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Free Entrance
PHOTO CREDIT: ANDREW HOLBROOKE/CORBIS
MUSIC
3, 6, 8 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 ()
A TRIBUTE TO ANNIS XENAKIS

Three distinguished contemporary music ensembles undertake the Athens Festivals Stefanos Thomopoulos annis Xenakis tribute to mark ten years piano since the death of a composer whose legacy Tetora for string quartet (1991) now seems more vital and vibrant than ST/4 for string quartet (1962) ever before. The iconic Arditti Quartet Akea for piano and string and the London Sinfonietta present a broad quartet (1986) spectrum of works ranging from virtuosic Ikhoor for string trio (1978) solos and pieces for various combinations Evryali for piano (1973) of instruments to the electro-acoustic Tetras for string quartet (1983) La lgende dEer, which was written for the opening of the Pompidou Centre. Finally, 6 JUNE LONDON SINFONIETTA Greeces own up-and-coming Ergon Ensemble attempts to extend the limits Conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth of the concert condition by incorporating Xenakis own speech and image in a musical Epei for cor anglais, clarinet, trumpet, 2 trombones and portrait of the avant-garde composer which double bass (1976) is a million miles from the stereotypical Kottos for cello (1977) man who put mathematics into music. Phlegra for flute, oboe,
3 JUNE
ARDITTI QUARTET
clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello and double bass (1975)
Diatope - La lgende dEer

for 4- or 8-track (1977)
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8 JUNE
ERGON ENSEMBLE
Conducted by
Nikos Tsouchlos
XENAKIS IN FIRST PERSON
Dhipli Zyia for violin

and cello (1952)
Anaktoria for clarinet,

bassoon, French horn, string quartet and double bass (1969)
Xenakis Electro-acoustic mix Charisma for clarinet

and cello (1971)
Palimpsest for 11 musicians

(1979)
Rebonds (part II) for percussion (1988) Keren for trombone (1986) O-Mega for percussion soloist
IANNIS XENAKIS, ATHENS 1975, XENAKIS ARCHIV E, PARIS
and chamber orchestra (1997) Diamorphoses (1957) will be presented during the entrance of the audience and Perspolis (1971) during intermission.
THEATRE
10-12 & 15-19 JUNE /

METROPOLITAN EXPO
TH TRE DU SOLEIL
THE CASTAWAYS OF THE FOL ESPOIR
(SUNRISES) A play collectively devised by the Thtre du Soleil, half written by Hlne Cixous
Direction Set design
Ariane Mnouchkine
Original music
Jean-Jacques Lemtre
Set construction
Everest Canto de Montserrat

Sets - Decor
In todays theatre, what could be more political than giving people back some of the enthusiasm and hope they once nurtured? Manning the barricades once more, Ariane Mnouchkines inspired, magical production honours those who, a century ago, espoused ideals that were destined to wreck. A silent film crew on the eve of the Great War are boxed up in an on-stage cabinet des curiosits, using a hand-cranked camera to film an optimistic political film based on Jules Vernes The Survivors of the Jonathan, an epic of singular power awash with music, humour and thrills.
Serge Nicola
Lighting
Elsa Revol
Sound design
Yann Lemtre
In French with Greek surtitles START TIME
19:00
16
30, 25, Concs. 20
TH TRE DU SOLEIL Michle Laurent
DANCE
11 & 12 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 ()

DOUBLE BILL OF GREEK CONTEMPORARY DANCE
ELPIDA ORFANIDOU
PARROTS AT THE SEABED
Conceived & Performed by
Elpida Orfanidou
Dramaturgy
Elpida Orfanidou puts her experiences of movement and her own mental moulds for corporeality on stage in a singular solo. As the titles surreal imagery suggests, the work seeks to convey a sense of the unfamiliar to the audience through a combination of short sketches whose elements are familiar. More candid than ever, Orfanidou marshals the possibilities of movement and the human voice, as well as facial expression, to stray from the well-worn paths of conventional dance.
The rehearsals for this production were held at the Kinitiras studio during the choreographers residency there. The artist would like to thank the Aliki Diamandi Ballet School for their hospitality.
Vasiliki Mouteveli
Lighting
Valentina Tamiolaki
Costumes
Hiroaki Kanai
Music supervision
Elpida Orfanidou
Media sponsors
START TIME
21:00
18
20, Concs. 10
DANCE

DOUBLE BILL OF GREEK CONTEMPORARY DANCE
TRIO 7D9 / RUSH

a work for 5 dancers
Conceived & Choreographed by
trio 7d9
Music
Chrysanthos Christodoulou
Lighting design
HELLBLAU
Lighting realised by
Giannis Rozeas
Voice-over
Dimitris Passas
Props
Manuel Frattini
Costumes
The trio 7d9 dance collective, formed in Berne by Xenia Themeli, Christos Strinopoulos and Marion Ruchti, is presenting its work in Greece for the first time. A creative workshop for ideas and quests which initially centred on pure movement, the trio experiments in Rush with elements from the theatre and the visual arts. As the works title reveals, the trios primary interest is in the primal impulse as human driving force. Ecstasy, enthusiasm, anger and playfulness permeate the whole show.
Media Sponsors
Ioanna Tsami
With
Karl Paquemar Marion Ruchti Xenia Themeli Christos Strinopoulos
START TIME
22:00
20, Concs. 10
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MUSIC
12 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS
THESSALONIKI STATE ORCHESTRA

A TRIBUTE TO FRANZ LISZT
(1811-1886)
Conducted by
Alexandros Myrat Franz Schubert (1797-1828) / Franz Liszt Fantasia in C major,

D 760 (Wanderer fantasy)
(transcribed for piano and orchestra by Franz Liszt, S 366)
Franz Liszt Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in A major,

S 125
Cyprien Katsaris
piano
This year marks the bicentenary of the birth of Ferencz Liszt. The greatest pianist the world has ever known, Liszt single-handedly established the concept of the soloist and the solo recital during the 19th century. Innovative and prolific as a composer, as a conductor he supported new directions in music and a number of young composers including Richard Wagner. A flamboyant character, a poet of life and music, a Franciscan abbot, Bohemian artist and genuine philanthropist, Liszt was one of the leading lights of Romanticism.
Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)
Symphony No. 3 in F major,

opus 73
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OPERETTA
THE BEGGARS OPERAS

THE DAUGHTER OF THE STORM
by Theophrastos Sakellaridis
Orchestrated & Conducted by
Kharlampos Goy s
Direction
Alexandros Efklidis
Sets Costumes
Konstantinos Zamanis
PETROS
Dimitris Nalbantis
RIKA
Vasia Zacharopoulou
PLUPLU
Elena Chatziafxenti
Mr GRANTIDIS
Engaging in a new and fruitful dialogue with the hidden treasures of the Greek operetta, The Beggars Operas company has been responsible for a series of fresh approaches to the lyric theatre. A million miles from a facile and ultimately artificial nostalgia for the good old days, the lost operetta repertoire some 1,000 works which were loved and performed in the genres heyday, only to disappear without trace after World War II are proving as relevant as they are vibrant, and a trenchant tool for pointed criticism of the modern Greek experience.
Co-produced by
Kostis Rasidakis
Mrs GRANTIDI
Eleni Liona
Mr RONSIS
Aris Prospathopoulos
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PERFORMANCE
13 & 14 JUNE / KUNSTHALLE ATHENA
FAREWELL
Curated by
Themis Bazaka Marina Fokidis

With the actors
Giorgos Valais Konstantina Voulgari Stefania Goulioti Angela Brouskou Maria Panourgia Aggeliki Papoulia Giannis Stankoglou Giorgos Symeonidis Theodora Tzimou Ioanna Tsami
and the visual artists
As an institution which embraces experimentation and the new, the Athens Festival encourages dialogue between the art-forms. In Farewell, ten actors collaborate with ten visual artists in a performance which negotiates the emotional and social meaning of farewell via a series of dichotomies: joy / bitterness, freedom / separation, salvation / fear, expectation / nostalgia, hope / disappointment, habit / change, the old / new world, life / death. A looping exhibition-performanceexperiment-spectacle which will take place over five hours in different spaces around the Kunsthalle Athenas old building in Metaxourghio.
Co-hosted by Kindly supported by
Kostis Velonis Christina Dimitriadi Pantelis Makkas Alexandros Mistriotis Thodoris Prodromidis Pantelis Pantelopoulos Dimitris Papadatos Socratis Socratous Dimitris Tataris Lo-Fi
Media Sponsor
OPENING HOURS
19:00 - 24:00
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Free Entrance
KUNSTHALLE ATHENA Dimitris Papadopoulos
THEATRE
13-17 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)
MEDUSA
DRAFTS AND IMPROVISATIONS ON RAFTS AND SHIPWRECKS
Collectively devised by
Thomas Moschopoulos Kornilios Selamsis Amalia Bennet Konstantinos Kypriotakis Elli Papageorgakopoulou Lefteris Pavlopoulos Elias Giannakakis Tasos Angelopoulos Anna Micheli Anna Kalaitzidou Anna Mascha Kostas Berikopoulos Dimitris Nasioulas Argyris Xafis Maria Skoula Thanos Tokakis Evangelia Therianou
A painting and the historic event that inspired it provided a group of celebrated artists with a starting point for a collective work on History and time, History and art, art and time... In 1816, the French frigate Medusa ran aground and 150 people of lower social standing were abandoned on a raft only fifteen would survive. The ensuing scandal was enormous, and had political extensions. The painting of the tragic raft which Thodore Gricault showed three years later would acquire its own scandalous mythology, as the artist had used two of the survivors as models.
START TIME
19:30
24
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DETAIL FROM THODORE GRIC AULT'S PAIN TING LE RADEAU DE LA MDUSE
DANCE
LEMURIUS DANCE COMPANY / BLOCKBUSTER

Choreographed & Performed by
Nikos Dragonas Ioannis Mandafounis Katerina Skiada

Lighting design
Alekos Giannaros
Costumes
Despoina Makarouni
Sets
Kleio Boboti Roza Giannopoulou

Musicians
Anastasis Gouliaris Dimitris Tasainas Foteinos Tsakopoulos
The Lemurius dance collective present their recent Blockbuster, with Nikos Dragonas, Ioannis Mandafounis and Katerina Skiada alternating in the roles of dancer and choreographer. With banners declaring Back to Basics filled by a wind of freedom calling the dance spectacle into question, and with a chair, a laptop and a panel as their only stage machinery, they resolve to rid themselves of the inessential. All three are exceptional performers who, despite their different starting points, espouse the utopia of community, co-creation, and the exchange of experience and ideas. The result: a dance-free dance performance which combines freshness with sincerity and playfulness.
Media Sponsors
20, Concs. 10
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LEMURIUS DANCE COMPAN Y Kleio Boboti
MUSIC
17 JUNE / TECHNOPOLIS
WORLD SOUNDS
A MUSICAL AWAKENING
Lamia Bedioui (Greece/Tunisia) Orchester Med Fusion (Tunisia) El Tanbura (Egypt)
Dozens, if not hundreds, of hymns to freedom were written and sung, mouth to mouth and cell to cell (phone), during the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. And they will continue to be written for as long as the Arabs struggles for social justice and political freedom continue. For this was undoubtedly an artistic revolution, too, which, shaking all of society to its very foundations, brought hidden songs and ideas, forbidden words and hopes, repressed thoughts and feelings out into the open. From Tahrir Square in Cairo, El Tanburas ancient lyre circled the globe via YouTube, the young musicians of Med Fusion were among the first to write songs about the Jasmine Revolution, while the naturalized Greek singer from Tunisia, Lamia Bedioui, successfully unites the sounds of the Mediterranean peoples, from the Berber deserts to the Aegean Sea.
Free Entrance
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EL TANBUR A Gareth Blake
DANCE
17-19 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 ()
ZEYNEP TANBAY DANS PROJES / ARAZ

Choreography
Zeynep Tanbay
Music
Yann Tiersen Philip Glass Reich Remixed Baba Zula Mercan Dede Burhan al
Costumes
Network
Lighting design
Zeynep Tanbay Arek Nianyan

With
Alper Marangoz Bengi Sevim Beril enz Can Gkdoan Cennet Erdoan Evrim Akyay Gl Batrbaygil Mert ztekin Nil Batrbaygil nder evik Pnar Gremek Suzan Alev Zeynep Tanbay
Zeynep Tanbay is now very much the grande dame of contemporary dance in Turkey. Having done her time with prestigious companies in the United States, she returned home to cross-fertilize the domestic scene with her experiences. Since 2006, the Zeynep Tanbay Dans Projesi have been making an impression in Turkey and beyond, and proved themselves a dynamic presence in the world of contemporary dance. Araz, a choreography in 14 self-contained parts, is a representative sample of the kinesiological influences that shaped its creator. Its solos, duets and ensemble sections are preformed to eclectic musical selections ranging from the traditional percussion of Burhan al to the minimalist melodies of Philip Glass.
With the support of
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ZE Y NEP TANBAY DANS PROJES Necati Trker
THEATRE
NIJINSKY
I AM A PUPPET IN THE HANDS OF GOD
Direction Text
Stavros S. Tsakiris
Sets
Alexandros Psychoulis
Costumes
Antonis Volanakis
Music
Nikos Kypourgos
Movement
Adrift in his memories, the legendary Nijinsky leaps from past to present and back again as he sinks into madness and despair in a Swiss clinic. His doctors, Diaghilev, Romola, and a class of young dancers move around him as he philosophizes on love, death, dance, good and evil, in a constant search for God. An ambitious performance from Stavros Tsakiris on the thin line between genius and madness, and on the essence of art, performed by a noteworthy cast including the dancer and choreographer, Konstantinos Rigos.
Konstantinos Rigos
Lighting
Eleftheria Deko
Dramaturgy
Dimitra Petropoulou
With
Konstantinos Rigos Giannis Tsortekis Evdokia Roumelioti Tatiana Papamoschou
30, 15, Concs. 10

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COSTUME OF NIJINSK Y DESIGNED BY BAKST FOR L'APR S-MIDI D'UN FAUNE
THEATRE

NARCISSUS
Written & Directed by
Elena Penga
Sets Costumes
Antonis Danglidis
Lighting
Katerina Marangoudaki
Video
Manthos Santorineos
Music
Orestis Tanis
Assistant director
Zoe Manta
NARCISSUS
Angelos Papadimitriou
A monologue for a male actor and twenty male volunteers is how Elena Penga describes her latest work, a fresh take on the well-known myth of the young man who falls in love with his reflection, with fatal consequences. In Narcissus, the multiplication of the image of the self is presented both as a question of existential order and as a sign of the times. Bound to an era in which developments in the technology of image production, processing, and reproduction has disturbed our relationship with the Ego, the contemporary man and, by extension, contemporary Man is brought face to face with his dead ends.
20 June
START TIME
21:00 21 June
START TIME
21:00 & 23:00 22 June

START TIME
23:00
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THEATRE
SOC ETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO / ON THE CONCEPT

OF THE FACE, REGARDING THE SON OF GOD
Conceived & Directed by
Romeo Castellucci
Original music
Scott Gibbons
With
The ground-breaking Romeo Castellucci returns with a bold new work: a decrepit father, a son and, in a Renaissance painting, the Son of God with a human expression on his face. Playing, as ever, with the limits of the Theatre of Cruelty, Castellucci uses a modern-day parable to explore the countenance of Christ in its long absence: Jesus face isnt there. I can see only paintings and statues. Operating far from the realm of the theological, the director seeks primary images and symbols as raw material for the theatre to appropriate.
Produced by Soc etas Raffaello Sanzio in co-production with: Theater der Welt 2010, deSingel international arts campus / Antwerp, Thtre National de Bretagne / Rennes, The National Theatre / Oslo, Barbican London and SPILL Festival of Performance, Chekhov International Theatre Festival / Moscow, Holland Festival / Amsterdam,
Gianni Plazzi Sergio Scarlatella

and
Dario Boldrini Silvia Costa Silvano Voltolina
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Athens Festival, GREC 2011 Festival de Barcelona, Festival dAvignon, International Theatre Festival DIALOG Wroclav / Poland, BITEF (Belgrade International Theatre Festival), spielzeiteuropa I Berliner Festspiele, Thtre de la Ville Paris, Romaeuropa Festival, Theatre festival SPIELART Mnchen (Spielmotor Mnchen e.V.), Le-Maillon, Thtre de Strasbourg / Scne Europenne, TAP Thtre Auditorium de Poitiers- Scne Nationale, Peak Performances @ Montclair State-USA A special thank to Centrale Fies for housing the Italian rehearsals. The general activity of Soc etas Raffaello Sanzio is supported by the following Italian institutions: Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit Culturali; Regione Emilia Romagna; Comune di Cesena. The performance is sponsored by Michalis Stathopoulos.
SOC ` IETAS R AFFAELLO SANZIO Klaus Lefebvre
DANCE
22 & 23 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)
COMPAGNIE MAGUY MARIN

B
Choreography
Maguy Marin
Dancers
Ulises Alvarez Romain Bertet Teresa Cunha La Helmstdter / Franoise Leick Marie Papon / Jeanne Vallauri Matthieu Perpoint Grgory Robardet Ennio Sammarco Agustina Sario Vania Vaneau
Original music
Maguy Marin, a unique figure on the French contemporary dance scene due to her wide-ranging creativity and extraordinary resilience to the passage of time, is returning to the Athens Festival in 2011. May B (1981), an emblematic work which made her name internationally, is inspired by the world of Samuel Beckett. Eschewing text and narrative, the work conjures up a choreographic fresco on the absurdity of the human condition, daringly putting on stage devastated figures whose gender is of little account beneath their off-white grease paint.
Co-produced by Compagnie Maguy Marin, Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Crteil
The CCN de Rilleux-La-Pape / Cie Maguy Marin is subsidized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (DRAC Rhne-Alpes), the Rgion Rhne-Alpes, Dpartement du Rhne, and the municipality of Rilleux-La-Pape.
Franz Schubert Gilles de Binche Gavin Bryars

Costumes
Louise Marin
Lighting
Compagnie Maguy Marin
With the support of
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MAY B Claude Bricage
THEATRE
23-27 JUNE / APO MICHANIS THEATRO

DEMON
SOSTENUTO ASSAI CANTABILE
by Maria Efstathiadi
Directed & Performed by
Roula Pateraki
Sets Costumes
Lili Kentaka
Lighting
Alekos Giannaros
Movement
Betty Dramisioti
Assistant director
Tasia Sofianidou
This isnt the first time Roula Pateraki has tackled an on-stage monologue and enlisted literatures aid in pushing back the limits of the theatrical. Having embodied creations by Yannis Ritsos, Yannis Panos, Virginia Woolf and Dimitris Dimitriadis, in this monologue Pateraki crosses paths with a minor character from Dostoyevskys Demons (The Possessed): little Matriosa, whom the demonic Stavrogin confesses to raping then driving to suicide. Given life and a voice in Maria Efstathiadis Demon, Matriosa tells us her version of events.
Co-produced by
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ROUL A PATER AKI Marilena Stafylidou
MUSIC
A TRIBUTE TO ODYSSEAS ELYTIS

(1911-1996) Giorgios Kouroupos
(b. 1942)
Monogram
(to poetry by Odysseas Elytis)
Tassis Christoyannis
baritone
Vassiliki Karayanni
soprano
W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 21 in C major,
467
Alexandra Papastefanou
piano With the
The Athens Festival has chosen to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Odysseas Elytis, the Greek Nobelprize-winning poet, with a performance of the stage cantata, Monogram, composed to his poetry by Giorgios Kouroupos. It is the most beautiful hymn to love I have ever heard. I wanted to convey the works lyricism, but also its dramatic elements, especially the hopelessness we feel when confronted with the realization that there is no place for such an ideal love in this world of ours. The work is preceded by a Mozart piano concerto which Elytis, in The Little Mariner, refers to as one of his favourite pieces of music.
ERT Chorus
Chorus master
Dimitris Bouzanis ORCHESTRA OF COLOURS

Conducted by
Miltos Logiades
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DANCE
PERSA STAMATOPOULOU CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY

LOOK AT ME
Choreography
Persa Stamatopoulou
in collaboration with the dancers Costumes
Ioanna Tsami
Music
Coti K.
Lighting
Panagiotis Manousis
With
This duet, the end result of an encounter and a collaboration between three generations in contemporary Greek dance, focuses on the adventure of the gaze. Persa Stamatopoulou, both dancer and choreographer, exchanges material and experiences with two powerful performers. Their theme: the paradox of living in an era that deifies the image, but in which eye-to-eye communication has atrophied. The limelight-bathed stage, fear of exposure and the intrusion of the Others gaze are some of the themes that activate the two bodies in space, and heighten the audiences perceptions.
Media Sponsors
Markella Manoliadi Giorgos Kotsifakis
25 June
START TIME
23:00
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20, Concs. 10
PERSA STAMATOPOULOU CON TEMPOR ARY DANCE COMPAN Y Stefanos Stamios
MUSIC
FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA

A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV MAHLER
(1860-1911)
Conducted by
Semyon Bychkov Max Bruch (1838-1920) Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G minor, opus 26 Joshua Bell
violin
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Symphony No. 6 in A minor
In this concert, part of a series marking the centenary of Gustav Mahlers death, the Filarmonica della Scala presents two works which epitomize Romanticism: Max Bruchs ever-popular Violin Concerto, with Joshua Bell playing the solo, and Mahlers own Sixth Symphony, the so-called tragic symphony which is imbued with the spirit of decay and death. The orchestra is conducted by Semyon Bychkov.
Main Partner of Filarmonica della Scala
40, 35, 25, 20, 15, Concs. 15 & 10

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SEM YON BYCHKOV Luca Piva
DANCE
27-29 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)
COMPAGNIE MAGUY MARIN

SALVES
Conceived & Choreographed by
Maguy Marin
in collaboration with
Denis Mariotte
and the performers
Ulises Alvarez Teresa Cunha Matthieu Perpoint Ennio Sammarco Agustina Sario Jeanne Vallauri Vania Vaneau
Technical direction Lighting
Alexandre Bneteaud
Sets
Maguy Marin, one of those rare artists who do not rest on their laurels, now has over three decades of unabating creativity to her credit. Following on from May B (1981), Peiraios 260 is hosting another Greek premiere: her recent work Salves (2010). Confronting the need to organize pessimism, this time she invokes Walter Benjamin. Socially and ethically engaged, she once again strives to put forces of resistance on stage so we can escape the pervading anxiety that crushes us and renders us powerless, she explains.
Co-produced by Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2010, Thtre de la Ville de Paris, CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape/cie Maguy Marin With the support of
Michel Rousseau
Accessory design
Louise Gros
Pierre Treille
Costumes
Nelly Geyres
Sound design
Antoine Garry
25, 20, Concs. 15

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CIE MAGU Y MARIN Jean-Pierre Maurin
PERFORMANCE
DENIS MARIOTTE
PRISES / REPRISES
Conceived & Performed by
Denis Mariotte
Technical direction
Judical Montrobert
The first time we encountered Denis Mariotte, it was through the quirky scores he has been writing for Maguy Marins choreographies since 1990. This time, though, hes here on his own account as the composer and performer of an original musical-kinetic performance in which rhythm and/or its absence play the leading role. Because, even when we think were losing it, its the rhythm that grabs us and carries us away, that we cant get out of our heads. Lost in a state of dissolution, we so often struggle to harmonize our here and now with an ever-changing world. Were a point struggling to find a rhythm in common with the surface of which it forms an element.
With thanks to CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape for housing the rehearsals With the support of GR - Thtre du Grtli (Geneva - Switzerland)
25, 20, Concs. 15

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THEATRE
28-30 JUNE & 1 JULY

ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE
KRZYSZTOF WARLIKOWSKI / (A)POLLONIA

Directed by
Krzysztof Warlikowski
Texts by
Sacrifice is the common thread running through the texts in (A)pollonia. Figures from the worlds of myth and tragedy like Iphigenia and Alcestis, who were sacrificed, cross paths with Apollonia Machczynska, a Polish woman who gave her life trying to save twenty five Polish Jews from Nazi savagery, while Agamemnon, who offered his own daughter up for sacrifice, is identified with a sadistic SS officer. Combining spirituality with the power of projections, the celebrated Polish director revives his interest in tragedy and reconsiders the Holocaust, a wound which has still to heal.
Produced by Nowy Teatr Warszawa Co-produced Festival dAvignon, Thtre National de Chaillot, Thtre de la Place de Lige, Thtre Royal de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, La Comdie de Genve Centre Dramatique, Narodowy Stary Teatr w Krakowie
Euripides Aeschylus Hana Krall Jonathan Litell J.M. Coetzee et al.

Adaptation
Krzysztof Warlikowski Piotr Gruszczyski Jacek Poniedziaek

Sets Costumes
Magorzata Szczniak
Music
Pawe Mykietyn Renate Jett Piotr Malanka Pawe Stankiewicz

Lighting
Felice Ross
Dramaturgy
Piotr Gruszczyski
Songs: Lyrics & Vocals
Renate Jett
Musicians
Pawe Bomert Piotr Malanka Pawe Stankiewicz Fabian Wodarek

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In Polish with Greek surtitles
40, 30, 20, 15, Concs. 15 & 10
Video
Pawe oziski Kacper Lisowski Rafa Listopad

With
Andrzej Chyra Magdalena Cielecka Ewa Dakowska Magorzata HajewskaKrzysztofik Danuta Stenka Wojciech Kalarus Marek Kalita Zygmunt Malanowicz Adam Nawojczyk Maja Ostaszewska Magdalena Popawska Jacek Poniedziaek Anna Radwan-Gancarczyk Monika Niemczyk Maciej Stuhr Tomasz Tyndyk
In association with the Onassis Cultural Centre Onassis Foundation
With the support of Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Athens
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KRZ YSZTOF WARLIKOWSKI (A)POLLONIA Stefan Oko owicz
THEATRE
29 & 30 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS
MUNICIPAL & REGIONAL THEATRE OF CRETE

THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS
by Carlo Goldoni
Translated by
Errikos Belies
Directed by
Giannis Kakleas
With
Vasilis Charalambopoulos Alexandros Mylonas Fay Xyla Giorgos Chrysostomou Vangelis Chatzinikolaou Kimon Fioretos Meni Konstantinidou Giorgos Papageorgiou
Hunger is the mother of invention, which is how Truffaldino-Arlecchino, a shrewd operator, ends up with two masters on his back. And while he needs them if hes to eat, hed better make sure they dont find out about each other even if they are staying in the same inn. Well, he got himself into this on-stage mess, so hell have to use all his wits and wiles to get himself out of it. Goldonis playful comedy may owe much to the tropes of the Commedia dellarte, but it is also closely observant of the society of its day. Giannis Kakleas is an innovative director at the helm of a fine cast with the exceptional Vasilis Charalambopoulos in the role of the most innocent yet canny servant in the history of the stage.
Golden Sponsor of the Municipal & Regional Theatre of Crete
30, 15, Concs. 10

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DANCE
THE PLANT COLLECTIVE

DOUBLE TAKE
Choreographed & Performed by
Panagiota Kallimani Filipe Loureno Emilio Urbina Rafael Pardillo

With
Alexandra Papagianni
Stage design
Heike Schuppelius
Music
Blaine L. Reininger
Lighting
Sakis Birbilis
The Plant, a dance collective whose members have worked together alongside outstanding European choreographers like Josef Nadj and Catherine Diverrs, join artistic quests once again to negotiate the pleasure of observing. In Double Take, they are inspired by the images of Edward Hopper and the master of cinematic suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. A polymorphic set turns us into observers watching stories unfold frame by frame; it also turns the mirror on us to reveal the way in which the gaze encroaches on the lives of others. Ultimately, might we be nothing more than a reflection of those we observe and perceive as reality around us?
With the support of Media Sponsors
30th June two shows

START TIME
21:00 & 23:00
20, Concs. 10
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DANCE
3-5 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)
THE FORSYTHE COMPANY / YES WE CANT

A work by William Forsythe and the dancers of The Forsythe Company
Lighting
Ulf Naumann Tanja Rhl

Music
Dietrich Krger Niels Lanz David Morrow

Costumes
Dorothee Merg
With
The spectacle of struggle for exceptional performance is always haunted by the thrilling spectre of failure. Reflecting the resolve voiced by Beckett to Try again. Fail again. Fail better, * the deliberate staging of mishap in Yes we cant ironically effaces the patina of excellence in performance, laying bare its inhering unsustainability and constant imperfection.
* Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho. The Forsythe Company is supported by the city of Dresden and the state of Saxony as well as the city of Frankfurt am Main and the state of Hesse. The Forsythe Company is Company-in-Residence of both HELLERAU-European Center of the Arts in Dresden and the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt am Main. With special thanks to Ms Susanne Klatten for supporting The Forsythe Company With the support of
Esther Balfe Dana Caspersen Katja Cheraneva Roberta Mosca Nicole Peisl Inma Rubio (Guest) Jone San Martin Elizabeth Waterhouse Cyril Baldy Brigel Gjoka Amancio Gonzalez Josh Johnson David Kern Fabrice Mazliah Tilman ODonnell Yasutake Shimaji Riley Watts Ander Zabala
No admittance to children under the age of 12
25, 20, Concs. 15

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THE FORSY THE COMPAN Y Dominik Mentzos
THEATRE
3-5 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 ()

MELPO AXIOTI
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CHRYSALIS
And we here, now, may have to recreate a childs heart, if we are to read. Melpo Axioti
Text Adaptation
Nikos Hatzopoulos Sofia Seirli

Direction
Nikos Hatzopoulos
Sets Costumes
Mayou Trikerioti
Video
Christos Dimas
Music supervision
Nikos Mastorakis
Lighting
Lefteris Pavlopoulos
With
An intellectual and literary pioneer, a committed Leftist and daring modernist, Melpo Axioti spent a large part of her life abroad as a political refugee. The assemblage of texts entitled Melpo Axioti: The transformation of the chrysalis is largely based on two of her iconic prose works Tough Nights and Kadmo and forms a polyphonic monologue in which fiction melds with autobiography to create an on-stage persona fighting to keep the memory of language and Greece alive in the face of oblivion and exile.
The assemblage of the texts were based on the books: [Itineraries of Melpo Axioti], by Anna Matthaiou and Popi Polemi, Themelio Editions / [Tough Nights], [Kadmo], [My home], [Poems], by Melpo Axioti, Kedros Editions / [Letters to Melpo], by Panagiotis Kousathanas, Mykoniatiki Editions. Produced by Athens Festival in collaboration with the Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kavala
Sofia Seirli
20, Concs. 10
60
THEATRE
3-5 JULY / ATHENS SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
MAG THEATRE COMPANY

URBAN SPACE #1
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
(THOMAS BERNHARD)
Original text
Thomas Bernhard
Translated by
Vasilis Tomanas
Direction Dramaturgy
Kostas Koutsolelos Elena Polygeni

Lighting
Vasilis Klotsotiras
Sets Costumes
Maria Karathanou
Physical Training
Anna Tzakou
With
Thomas Bernhards Autobiography is a snapshot of the Ego encountering the world: an encounter that never comes to pass. He equates society with a vast institution, inhuman and dark, housing millions of people with special needs. The MAG Company production eschews the on-stage representation of the events described by the Austrian man of letters. Instead, revolving around its actors bodies, it projects a distorted inner landscape, focusing less on his yelling in desperation as on the yell itself.
The production is based on Autobiography by Thomas Bernhard, trans. Vasilis Tomanas (Exandas: Athens 1995). With the support of
Kostas Koutsolelos Marios Panagiotou Matina Pergioudaki Elena Polygeni Sotiris Tsakomidis
20, Concs. 10
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A MAN AND A PR AY ER Sofia Simaki
OPERA
4 JULY / MEGARON (CHRISTOS LAMBRAKIS HALL)
LE CERCLE DE LHARMONIE
IDOMENEO
opera in three acts by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Conducted by
Jrmie Rhorer
IDOMENEO
Richard Croft
tenor IDAMANTE
Kate Lindsay
mezzo-soprano ILIA
Sophie Karthaser
soprano ELETTRA
Alexandra Coku
soprano ARBACE
Xavier Mas
tenor HIGH PRIEST
Leopold Mozart attended the premiere of Idomeneo (1781), which his son Wolfgang presented at the Cuvillis theatre in Munich two days after his 25th birthday. The operas plot revolves around another complex father-son relationship, and is one of the last important additions to the opera seria repertoire. The young French conductor, Jrmie Rhorer, and his ensemble bring a musicologically informed theatricalism to the work, revealing the diverse influences the French baroque, the exuberance of the dominant Italian style, and Glucks revolutionary manifesto which Mozart creatively assimilated into a powerfully emotive tale of tragic confrontations.
Produced by Thtre des Champs Elyses
Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro
tenor VOICE OF NEPTUNE
Nahuel di Pierro
bass With
Les lments chamber choir

Opera concertante In Italian with Greek surtitles
30, 20, 15, 10, Concs. 5

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JRMIE RHORER Alix Laveau
THEATRE
5 JULY / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS
ARIS RETSOS
THE THRONE OF ATREUS
Direction Texts Dramaturgy Music coaching Original Music Movement Scenography
Aris Retsos
Movement coaching
Ermis Malkotsis
Lighting
Marios Chatziathanasiou
Masks
Nektarios Dionysatos
Live music by
Aris Retsos, an outstanding figure in the Greek theatre, an actor and director who has dedicated twenty five years of his life to researching ancient drama, essays a journey of memory into the tragic myth of the Atreides, from the sacrifice of Iphigenia and the fall of Troy to Orestes flight from the Furies and his entreaties to Apollo and Athena. Playing a ritualistic role, the Chorus greets, follows, leads and accompanies the tragic heroes in their encounters with Fate.
Stelios Giannoulakis
AGAMEMNON / AEGISTHUS
Konstantinos Avarikiotis
CLYTEMNESTRA
Kora Karvouni
ORESTES
Ermis Malkotsis
CASSANDRA
Natassa Marmataki
ELECTRA
Alexia Kaltsiki
HERALD
Antonis Myriangos And a MIXED CHORUS
30, 15, Concs. 10

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OPERA
6 JULY / ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE
LATINITAS NOSTRA
THE CORONATION OF POPPEA
an opera in three acts by Claudio Monteverdi
(1567-1643)
Conducted by
Markellos Chrysikopoulos
Directed by
Apostolia Papadamaki
Sets Costumes
Katerina-Christina Manolakou
Lighting
Monteverdis last and most important work is as human as it is ground-breaking. Thanks to an innovative libretto which takes liberties with its material, and a score which combines the moving with the sensual and the amusing with the dramatic, the opera continues to delight audiences to this day. Can virtue be punished and greed rewarded? Of course, the audience of 1642 knew that Poppeas allure would not last, that Nero would take his own life just a few years later, and that most of the operas heroes would meet an untimely end. Monteverdi is often justly compared with his contemporary, Shakespeare, for his poetics, his ability to lay the soul bare, and the seminal role he played in the development of Western music.
Filippos Koutsaftis
40, 30, 20, 15, Concs. 15 & 10

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FORTUNA
Elena Krasaki
` VIRTU
Electra Platiopoulou
AMORE
Jason Marmaras
OTTONE
Karolina Blixt
POPPEA
Theodora Baka
NERONE
Florin Cezar Ouatu

OTTAVIA
Emanuela Galli
NUTRICE/FAMIGLIARE
Ioanna Forti
SENECA
Tassos Apostolou
DRUSILLA
Myrsini Margariti
LIBERTO
Konstantinos Klironomos
FAMIGLIARE/LUCANO
Yiannis Filias
FAMIGLIARE/LITTORE
Kostas Mavrogenis
PALLADE
Zinovia Zafeiriadou
(video) MERCURIO
Haris Andrianos
(video) VENERE
Nikos Spanos
(video) Featuring ARNALTA
Romina Basso
(special guest)
THEATRE
Direction Sets
Nikola Kolyada
Costumes
KOLYADA TEATR
HAMLET
by William Shakespeare
Lioubov Rodigina Natalia Gorbounova Svetlana Yakina

Lighting Sound
Denis Novosselov
With
Nikola Kolyada Natalia Garanina Irina Plesniaeva Svetlana Kolessova Lioubov Kocheleva Vera Tzvitkis Anna Danilina Konstantin Itounin Serguej Rovine Serguej Fiodorov Serguej Bogorodsky Alexej Jdanov Evguenij Tchistiakov Serguej Kolessov Karen Kotchiarian Anton Makouchine Oleg Yagodine Alexandre Koutchik Maxim Tarrassov Youlia Bespalova Anton Boutakov Alexandre Vakhov Alexandre Sissoev Alexandre Ouglov
This Hamlet from Yekaterinburg in Central Russia is like a pagan celebration. The play is directed by the actor, playwright and director Nikola Kolyada, a leading figure on the contemporary Russian theatre scene whom the Athens Festival is proud to introduce to Greek audiences. Deconstructing the Shakespearean text, Kolyada rewrites the dark princes big questions on stage using minimal apparatus and powerful images. A challenging production from a theatre company that has even had to face up to the Russian Mafia in defence of its art, this Hamlet has enjoyed a rapturous reception at festivals around the world.
In Russian with Greek surtitles
25, 20, Concs. 15

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THEATRE
7-9 JULY / 9TH & 34TH JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
MKULTRA THEATRE CO.

URBAN SPACE #2
A DAY TRIP
a performance about the city
The city plan is always incomplete. Our daily routes redesign our surroundings as our personal geographies are recorded Directed by Gigi Argyropoulou in the citys built environment, creating Paeder Kirk an immaterial architecture. In the contemporary urban landscape, in which Dramaturgy Supervision Gigi Argyropoulou social spaces are being eradicated, the praxis of everyday life contains strategies With of resistance. Athens changes every Vasiliki Dimou summer; Little scenes are played out Rania Kelaiditi on balconies and rooftops, bringing a new Mary Lousi topography into view, in which the private Evangeli Fili Phaedra Chatzikonstanti becomes public and the public private.
Conceived by
MKULTRA
et al.
The MKULTRA Company is staging an unexpected excursion, at night: its creating a temporary neighbourhood in the heart of Athens, an intermediate zone, a heterotopia, a home.
20, Concs. 10
72
THEATRE

PARTALI
based on the novel by Theodoros Grigoriadis
Text
Theodoros Grigoriadis
Stage direction & design
Stelios Krasanakis
Costumes
Kostas Velinopoulos
Lighting
Eleftheria Deko
Movement
Amalia Bennet
Sound design
Spyros Aravositas
Video
Christos Dimas
With
Christos Stergioglou
Partali, the protagonist in the monologue based on Theodoros Grigoriadis novel of the same name, is a man who has learnt to wear womens clothes to survive, turning a traumatic life into a spectacular on-stage performance. In his triple capacity as a director, psychiatrist and drama therapist, Stelios Krasanakis has encountered a range of characters in the past who have opened a window on the individual and collective psyche. In Partali, disguise, transvestitism and a particular social milieu combine to comment on the formation of sexual identity and the hybridization of Modern Greek identity in a production in which personal and national history are interwoven. Featuring Christos Stergioglou, one of the most influential actors in his generation, in the challenging title role.
A production by Athens Festival in collaboration with Naxos Festival and Municipal & Regional Theatre of Kavala.
20, Concs. 10
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THEATRE
10-12 JULY / INSTITUT FRAN
AIS DATH NES
NOVA MELANCHOLIA
URBAN SPACE #3
MEDITATION I: CONCERNING THOSE THINGS THAT CAN BE CALLED INTO DOUBT

Text Adaptation
Manolis Tsipos Vassilis Noulas

Sets Costumes
Nova Melancholia
Lighting design
Thodoris Mihopoulos
Live sound
Tasos Stamou
With
Emi Kitsali Vicky Kyriakoulakou Vassilis Noulas Ioanna Toumpakari Manolis Tsipos
There is nothing about which one may not be in doubt. The Nova Melancholia Company attempts a rhythmic/musical approach to Descartes First Meditation, part of his philosophical treatise, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), the first work of the modern era to posit calling everything into doubt by defining I as the ultimate arbiter of reality. In the first part of the performance, Vicky Kyriakoulakou reads the French Rationalists text, which was considered heretical in its time, with Tasos Stamou making live auditory interventions. The second part gives us a music-theatre show with numbers from the Cabaret Descartes.
The production is based on Meditations on First Philosophy by Ren Descartes, trans. Evangelos Vantarakis, Ekkremes: Athens 2003.
With the support of
20, Concs. 10
75
THEATRE
9 & 10 JULY / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS
Translation to French
Robert Davreu
Directed by
WAJDI MOUAWAD
WOMEN
a work based on Sophocles tragedies Antigone, Electra and The Trachiniae
Wajdi Mouawad
Artistic supervision
Franois Ismert
Sets
Emmanuel Clolus
Costumes
Isabelle Larivire
Lighting
Wajdi Mouawad, a singular artist with multicultural roots, will be making his Greek premiere at this years Athens Festival. The director, author and actor spent his childhood in Lebanon, his teenage years in France and the first years of his adult life in Quebec before settling in France for good. Influenced by the dialogue between the contemporary world and the literary legacy of ancient Greece, he has now turned his attentions to the on-stage interpretation of ancient drama. His Women cycle, which is based on Sophocles tragedies Antigone, Electra and he Trachiniae, is his and his French-Canadian companys first venture into ancient drama.
With the support of
Eric Champoux
Original music
ek
Bertrand Cantat Bernard Falaise Pascal Humbert Alexander MacSween

With
Pierre Ascaride Bertrand Cantat Olivier Constant Sylvie Drapeau Bernard Falaise Charlotte Farcet Raoul Fernandez Pascal Humbert Patrick Le Mauff Sara Llorca Alexander MacSween Marie-Eve Perron Emmanuel Schwartz
In French with Greek surtitles
30, 15, Concs. 10

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WA JDI MOUAWAD Sophie Jodoin
DOCUMENTARY
11 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 ()
NAKED HANDS
a documentary film about the great Greek maestro Dimitri Mitropoulos
Script & Direction
Giorgos Skevas
Music
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted his orchestras without a baton, with his bare hands. Giorgos Skevas documentary whose premiere screening this is covers the years Mitropoulos spent in the United States (1938-1960) at the helm of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. A man (Lefteris Vogiatzis) studies the archive containing Mitropoulos letters and audio-visual material featuring the maestro, in an effort to shed light on aspects of the life and personality of the great Greek conductor.
Simis Tsilalis
Cinematography
Katerina Marangoudaki
Scenography
Eva Manidaki
Editing
Panos Voutsaras
Sound engineering
Spyros Aravositas
Production
Town Film (Roula Nikolaou)

With
Lefteris Vogiatzis
5
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DIMITRI MITROPOULOS Time Inc.
THEATRE
11-13 JULY / NATIONAL MUSEUM

OF CONTEMPORARY ART
VASISTAS THEATRE CO.

SPECTACLE
Directed by
Argyro Chioti
Concept - Dramaturgy Music
Vasistas Theatre Co.

Lighting
Tasos Palaioroutas
Stage design
Eva Manidaki
Costumes
Pavlos Thanopoulos
Dramaturgical associate
Lambros Chrysogonidis
Movement
Sofia Mavragani
With
Spectacle, from the multi-ethnic Vasistas company, explores the mechanisms of everyday education. The company stages a variable mobile installation with people in the spaces of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, and in parallel with the retrospective show dedicated to Apostolos Georgiou, an artist whose work records Mans existential angst in mundane, everyday moments. An invisible, all-powerful surveillance network in which everything is transformed into spectacle, and everyone is moving automaton-like in search of interpersonal communication. Is there an emergency exit after all?
In collaboration with NMCA
Ariane Labed Efthymis Theou Naima Carbajal Petros Stathakopoulos Argyro Chioti
20, Concs. 10
80
THEATRE

CLYTEMNESTRA STAGE
Directed by
Angela Brouskou
Original music
Minimaximum improVision & natryx

Sets
Guy Stefanou
With
Filareti Komninou
After Electra (2006) and Agamemnon (2008), Angela Brouskou returns to the Athens Festival to direct the psychic topography of a figure absolutely central to the matriarchal ancient world. In Clytemnestra Stage E, a performance that defies labels, she engages with the myth of the wayward and passionate wife, mother and lover, but also with Womans relationship with war, power and loss. The Minimaximum improVision & natryx group back Filareti Komninou in the title role, using audio-visual material as a parallel narrative.
20, Concs. 10
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OPERA
12 & 14 JULY / MEGARON

(ALEXANDRA TRIANTI HALL)
THE BOLSHOI OPERA

EUGENE ONEGIN
lyric scenes in three acts by P.I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Conducted by
Vasily Sinaisky
Direction
Dmitry Chernyakov
MADAME LARINA
Makval Kasrashvili
TATIANA
Ekaterina Scherbachenko
OLGA
Margarita Mamsirova
FILIPPIEVNA
Irina Udalova
EUGENE ONEGIN
Audun Iversen
VLADIMIR LENSKY
The opera Tchaikovsky wrote using Pushkins verse novel as a libretto is more a portrait of the alluring Tatiana than of its eponymous hero. The heartbeat of the young heroine who embodied the virtues of fidelity and devotion and inspired the admiration of generations of authors, including Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, provided Tchaikovsky with the rhythm for one of the 19th centurys finest lyric works. Two years after its first performance by students at the Moscow Conservatory, Eugene Onegin was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1881. The late Romantic opera has been in its repertoire ever since.
Alexey Dolgov
PRINCE GREMIN
Mikhail Kazakov
ZARETSKY
Valery Gilmanov
e d
In Russian with Greek surtitles
40, 30, 20, 15, Concs. 10

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EK ATERINA SCHERBACHENKO AS TATIANA Damir Yusupov
MUSIC
THE BOLSHOI ORCHESTRA

Conducted by
Vassily Sinaisky Sergei Rachmaninoff

(1873-1943)
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3 in D minor,

opus 30
Denis Matsuev
piano
Antonn Dvok
(1841-1904)
Symphony No. 8 in G major,

opus 88, 163
Sergei Rachmaninoffs Third Piano Concerto is a musical as well as a technical challenge for the performer. In this case, the names involved offer the requisite guarantee of quality: the internationally celebrated Russian pianist, Denis Matsuev, playing with his countrys oldest orchestral ensemble, the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, under its principal conductor, Vassily Sinaisky. The programme also features Anton n Dvo ks Eighth Symphony, a cheerful work inspired by the popular music of Bohemia.
40, 35, 25, 20, 15, Concs. 15 & 10

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THEATRE
14-16 JULY / INSTITUT FRAN
AIS DATH NES
HAPPY END THEATRE CO.

URBAN SPACE #4
THE SUICIDE ROOFTOP

Directed by
Georgia Mavragani
Music
Nikos Veliotis
Performed by
I, the being, the organic, the willfully mobile, the vertebrate, the mammal, I, the two-handed, the person, the female, Koralia, I shall not be silent now, not now, I have no respite, no longer.
Yvonne Maltezou
The voice of the poet Koralia Theotoka, the wife of Yorgos Theotokas, before the pain of lost love drove her past the brink of the roof of her home, provides the inspiration for this new site-specific production by Georgia Mavragani. Against the backdrop of a city rooftop a space which formally divides the public from the private a woman addresses the many with the discourse of the one; of anyone brought face to face with life and what that means.
With special thanks to Julia Andreiadou who provided us with the rights to use Koralia Theotokas texts. With the support of
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THEATRE
14-17 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)
PEQUOD THEATRE COMPANY

WORKING HYPOTHESIS
Directed by
Dimitris Xanthopoulos
Dramaturgy
Pequod Vaggelis Hatzigiannidis

Sets Costumes
Mayou Trikerioti
Movement
Zoe Hatziantoniou
Lighting
Tasos Paleoroutas
Music supervision
Pequod
With
No costumes, no sets, no make-up. The Pequod theatre company made a splash with its first production, a Seagull that focused on the fundamental condition of theatre: the communication between the audience and the actors. Now they are back with a new offering. Beginning with a blank sheet of paper, Working Hypothesis draws on newspaper articles, workers real-life experiences and universal thoughts and quests to explore a burning issue of our times: Given the current state of labour fluidity and uncertainty, can I work, therefore I am still hold? Or perhaps it never did
Yiorgos Angelopoulos Dimitris Georgalas Giannis Klinis Michalis Mathioudakis Aggeliki Marinou Nicole Drizi Aggeliki Papathemeli Kostas Papakonstantinou Fidel Talamboukas
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MUSIC
ATHENS STATE ORCHESTRA / A TRIBUTE

TO GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)
Conducted by
Vassilis Christopoulos Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor Resurrection Daphne Evangelatos
mezzo-soprano
Sophia Kyanidou
soprano
With
ary
the State Choir LATVIJA and the ERT Choir
The Athens State Orchestra is bringing Gustav Mahlers monumental Second Symphony to the Athens Festival in one of a series of concerts marking the centenary of the composers death. Written for a large orchestra, two soloists and a mixed choir, the Resurrection Symphony, as it is known after the ode of that name which is included in its stirring finale, provides a moving musical response to the existential angst of the mortal man in search of the divine. On the podium, the Athens State Orchestras new artistic director and principal conductor, Vassilis Christopoulos.
Co-produced by Athens Festival - Athens State Orchestra
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VASSILIS CHRISTOPOULOS Patrick Pfeiffer
DANCETHEATRE
THOC EXPERIMENTAL STAGE / A LITTLE MORE

Stage direction Text
Thanasis Georgiou Fotis Nikolaou

Choreography
Fotis Nikolaou
Adaptation Orchestration Vocal coaching
Nikos Evangelou
Sets Costumes
Konstantina Andreou
Lighting
Giorgos Lazoglou
With the actors
Thanasis Drakopoulos Myrto Kougiali Katerina Loura Panos Makris Lea Maleni Christos Nikolaou Niovi Haralambous
and the dancers
Thirteen people meet in a room of blessings, around a table positioned between life and death. They are trying to gain a little more time for the desires they have still to fulfil. Working with a group of young performers from the Experimental Stage of the Cyprus Theatre Organization, a choreographer, Fotis Nikolaou, and an actor, Thanasis Georgiou, co-direct a work of dance-theatre. True to his existential quests, the choreographer propels the cast into an encounter between speech and movement an on-stage testimony from the heart, which seeks to move the audience with its directness.
Antonis Antoniou Rialena Nikodimou Alexia Perdikaki Foteini Perdikaki Fotis Nikolaou
Featuring
Nikos Evangelou
piano
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THEATRE
18-20 JULY / NATIONAL RAILWAY STATION
PROJECTOR THEATRE CO.

URBAN SPACE #5
A JOURNEY BY TRAIN
Directed by
Anestis Azas
Prodromos Tsinikoris
Sets Art direction
Eleni Stroulia
Music
Panagiotis Manouilidis
The Projector Company engages with the burning issues of Greeces political present by exploring the history of the Greek railways and, through them, of the country as a whole. Choosing a place which is still close to the reality of city streets and apartments an Athenian rooftop from where the gaze can wander unimpeded over the railway lines that crisscross the city the company stages a site-specific performance based on the codes of the theatrical documentary, a mix of historical texts, songs and personal testimony, and the participation of people who have themselves worked on the railways.
With the support of
HELLENIC RAILWAYS ORGANIZATION S.A.
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THEATRE

A DREAM ON THE WAVE

by Alexandros Papadiamantis
Directed & Performed by
Thanassis Sarantos
Sets Costumes
Eva Manidaki
Music Sound design
Lambros Pigounis
Film projections
Thanassis Sarantos Gabriel Tzafkas
In this, the centenary of Alexandros Papadiamantis death, Thanassis Sarantos tackles A Dream on the wave, one of the writers most important works and the first short story in modern Greek literature to describe a nude. The story of the young shepherds encounter with Moschoula speaks of the carefree spirit of youth, of bucolic simplicity and happiness close to nature, but it also sheds light on a traumatic, unconsummated passion in a production which combines dramatized narrative with live music and the moving image to convey the unique atmosphere of Papadiamantis work.
With the support of Papadiamantis House Museum of Skiathos and Skiathos Municipality.
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21:00 & 23:00

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DANCE
19 & 20 JULY / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

SADLERS WELLS LONDON
SYLVIE GUILLEM
6,000 MILES AWAY
choreographies by Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Ji Kyli n
AJ (BYE)
Choreography
Mats Ek
Music
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano sonata Op. 111, Arietta

(Recording played by Ivo Pogorelich) Sets Costumes
Katrin Brnnstrm
Lighting
Erik Berglund
Dancer
Sylvie Guillem
Co-produced by Dansens Hus Stockholm
NEW WILLIAM FORSYTHE WORK

Choreography
Sylvie Guillems dance recital is undoubtedly the cultural event of the summer; two brand-new works choreographed especially for her by Mats Ek and William Forsythe, and Ji Kyli ns 2752 featuring two dancers handpicked by him. Four dance artists who need no introduction, since they have all left an indelible mark on the dance scene of our times. All four began their careers in the classical ballet, which all four also managed to put in a contemporary context. Sylvie broke the boundaries of classical dance to blaze new trails in the contemporary idiom. This time, she takes on the modernist challenges of a perceptive post-classicist, a neo-classicist with a love for the cinema, and a choreographer who uses movement to explore the soul.
William Forsythe
Costume design Lighting concept
William Forsythe
Lighting design realised by
Rachel Shipp
Dancers
Sylvie Guillem Nicolas Le Riche

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Choreography
Ji Kylin
Music
Dirk Haubrich
(new composition, based upon 2 themes by Gustav Mahler) Sets
Ji Kylin
Costumes
Joke Visser
Lighting
Kees Tjebbes
Dancers
Aurlie Cayla Kenta Kojiri
A Sadlers Wells London / Sylvie Guillem Production
Supported by
SYLVIE GUILLEM Lesley Leslie-Spinks
Co-produced by Holland Dance Festival, Les Nuits de Fourvire/ Dpartement du Rhne, Athens Festival, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay
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VISUAL ARTS
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EXHIBITION
15 APRIL 10 OCTOBER /
MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART
THE LAST GRAND TOUR

Curated by
Jessica Morgan (Tate Modern)

Participating artists
Etel Adnan Lynda Benglis Leonard Cohen John Craxton Barbara Hepworth Martin Kippenberger Jannis Kounellis Markus Lpertz Brice Marden Helmut Middendorf Ben Nicholson Manfred Pernice Lucas Samaras Daniel Spoerri Juergen Teller Cy Twombly Iannis Xenakis
The Last Grand Tour exhibition, at the Museum of Cycladic Art, brings together for the first time the work of seventeen internationally celebrated artists who lived, were inspired and worked in Greece during the 20th century. Paintings, sculptures and installations from the last six decades bear the signature of artists who were engaged on entirely different quests. Among them, John Craxton, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth from the UK, and members of the Greek diaspora, including Jannis Kounellis, Lucas Samaras and Iannis Xenakis.
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LYNDA BENGLIS SAN MARCOS, 1995 STAINLESS STEEL AND COPPER 48X43X20 CM PRIVATE COLLECTION, ATHENS COURTESY OF KALFAYAN GALLERIES, ATHENS / THESSALONIKI PHOTO: YIANNIS AND ODYSSEAS VAHARIDES, COURTESY OF KALFAYAN GALLERIES, ATHENS / THESSALONIKI
EXHIBITION
15 MAY 31 JULY /
BENAKI MUSEUM (PEIRAIOS STREET ANNEXE)
ARRRGH!
MONSTERS IN FASHION
Curated by
Vasilis Zidianakis
With creations by
Walter Van Beirendonck Alexis Themistocleous Gareth Pugh Dr NOKIs NHS Issey Miyake Cassette Playa Boris Hoppek Charlie Le Mindu Jean-Charles De Castelbajac Bas Kosters Maison Martin Margiela Andrea Ayala Closa Bernhard Willhelm Mareunrols Pyuupiru Giorgos Tourlas et al.
ARRRGH! breaks new ground in presenting the expansion of a modern-day phenomenon strange and monstrous Characters into fashion and clothes. The Characters are the work of contemporary artists, who crossed the human figure with mythic, animal and supernatural forms to create them. In the context of this new trend, artists and fashion designers, both established and up-and-coming, combine new ways of seeing with the semantic codes of apparel to redefine the relationship between our body and clothing, the possibilities of the human form, and the limits on our perception of what is beautiful and what is monstrous.
Organized by
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VIDEO INSTALLATION
1 JUNE 20 JULY / PEIRAIOS 260 ()
AERNOUT MIK
PULVEROUS (2003) MOCK-UP (2007)
Aernout Miks contribution to arranging and coordinating the groups of whom his installations and videos are comprised is perhaps best compared to that of a director. He hires his actors, divides them into shifts, pays them by the hour (they get a per diem, of course), provides them with lists of instructions; in short, he is there behind the scenes, quietly orientating the entire spectacle and often imbuing it with something like a directorial perspective. Mik coordinates his people as though they were workers or traders, organizes them like a foreman in a factory, or perhaps better still stages deconstruction with consummate skill.
A Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) co-production Both works are part of the Dimitris Daskalopoulos contemporary art collection. Their owner has kindly made them available for installation and operation at Peiraios 260 in the context of the Athens Festival 2011.
Free Entrance
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COURTESY C ARLIER | GEBAUER, BERLIN
PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION
16 & 17 JUNE / PIRAS 19 & 20 JUNE / HYDRA
DOUG AITKEN
BLACK MIRROR
Featuring
Chlo Sevigny Doug Aitkens Black Mirror will be presented in two parts: A performance produced by the Athens Festival in association with the DESTE Foundation in the ports of Peiraias (16 & 17 June) and Hydra (19 & 20 June). An exhibition produced by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in its exhibition space in the Slaughterhouse, Hydra (20 June-25 September).
Doug Aitken is considered the enfant terrible of video art. The avant-garde Californian artist whose Electric Earth won the International Prize at the 1999 Venice Biennale, knows how to attract attention with his video installations. At the Athens Festival, he is presenting Black Mirror, a new multi-media artwork on an off-shore anchored ferry. Aitken works in the grey area between reality and fiction, combining different mediums including film, architecture, performance, dance, and sound. Black Mirror the parallel (hi)stories of people who live in different parts of todays world is a critique on the dark side of global commerce and the rapid exchange of information and emotion.
Private Sponsor of the Black Mirror exhibition
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
In English with Greek surtitles
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EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL
THEATRE
1 & 2 JULY / EPIDAURUS ANCIENT THEATRE
DIADROMI THEATRE
PEACE
by Aristophanes
Translated by
Kostas Georgousopoulos
Dramaturgy
Petros Filippidis Giorgos Galitis

Directed by
Petros Filippidis
Sets
Have the gods abandoned Greece? The Peloponnesian War has been raging for ten years, and the desperation and despondency are palpable. Trygaeus of Athens, a shrewd man, decides to take matters in his own hands: climbing astride a huge beetle, he flies up to the heavens for a word with Zeus. Written in 421 BC, Peace, a paean to rural life in which Aristophanes condemns war and parodies the theatre of his own era, is as relevant today as it ever was. Directing at Epidaurus for the first time, the sparkling comic actor, Petros Filippidis, plays the lead role amidst a cast of celebrated actors.
Media Sponsor
Giannis Kottis
Costumes
Giannis Metzikof
Music
Minos Matsas
Choreography
Elpida Ninou
Lighting
Eleftheria Deko
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With
Petros Filippidis Takis Papamattheou Giorgos Galitis Giannis Degaitis Konstantinos Giannakopoulos Panos Stathakopoulos Christos Simardanis Haris Mavroudis Angelos Bouras Dimitris Degaitis Tasos Iordanidis Spyros Pappas Christos Syriotis Eleftherios Eleftheriou Ilias Giannakis Dimitris Vogiatzis Thodoris Bouzikakos Antonis Antonakos Dimitris Samolis Petros Georgopalis Stavros Svingas Manolis Hourdakis Orestis Tziovas
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THEATRE
STATE THEATRE OF NORTHERN GREECE

RURAL DIONYSIA
Text composed by
Kostas Georgousopoulos
Directed by
A half century of the State Theatre of Northern Greece. Fifty years of artistic creativity. A seasoned and outstanding actor guides the younger generation of actors into the heart of ancient drama, stopping at key productions along the way. The State Theatre of Northern Greece recalls its iconic productions at the ancient theatres of Philippi and Thasos, its first appearance at Epidaurus, magical evenings in the Forest Theatre with Thessaloniki stretched out below for a backdrop. A stroll through the theatrical past and present in a production which pays tribute to the greats of the Greek theatre.
Giannis Rigas Grigoris Karantinakis

Sets
Lili Pezanou
Costumes
Ersi Drini
Music
Giorgos Christianakis
Choreography
Kostas Gerardos
Lighting
Andreas Bellis
With
Giorgos Armenis Lazaros Georgakopoulos Giannis Kalatzopoulos Tamila Koulieva Giannis Malouhos Foteini Baxevani Alexandra Sakellaropoulou Nikos Psarras
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THEATRE
NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE

STAGE-WALKERS
Translation Dramaturgy Direction
Stamatis Fasoulis
Sets
Manolis Pantelidakis
Costumes
Deni Vachlioti
Music
Thodoris Oikonomou
Lyrics
Afroditi Manou
Choreography
The history of the theatre enacted on stage in an eclectic production which takes us back to the first stirrings of ancient Greek literature, and from there into the Roman period. Extracts from tragedies and comedies by Greek and Roman poets, choral dances and odes in praise of gods and heroes, mimes and elements from the Roman arena impressive games, gladiatorial matches, acrobatics and spectacular performances with fire together form a colourful collage! A production that engages with the present day through the parallels it draws with the ancient past, and which alternates tragic with comic and lets contemporary audiences in on the joke.
Produced by
Fokas Evangelinos
Lighting
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With
Nena Menti Sofia Filippidou Nikos Kouris Tania Trypi Eleni Kokkidou Makis Papadimitriou Laertis Malkotsis Evangelia Moumouri Thanasis Alevras Soratis Patsikas
Alkistis Poulopoulou Foivos Rimenas Margarita Loumaki Agoritsa Oikonomou Giorgos Depastas Dimitris Tselios Dimitra Sigala Christos Spanos Tzeni Diagoupi Eleni Vergeti
Cleo-Danae Othonaiou Minos Theocharis Nadia Kontogeorgi Iro Bezou Spyros Andreopoulos Angelos Triantafyllou Spyros Kyriazopoulos Antonis Pasvantis Dimitris Kapetanakis Nefeli Kouri
THEATRE
APLO THEATRO
MEDEA
by Euripides
Translated by
Giorgos Cheimonas
Directed by
Antonis Antypas
Sets Costumes
Giorgos Patsas
Music
Eleni Karaindrou
Movement
I am undone, I have resigned all joy in life, and I want to die, Medea exclaims. A dark and alluring creature, the barbarian witch of Colchis, grand-daughter to the Sun himself, is driven by her love for Jason to follow him to Corinth. When Jason betrays her, she devises the cruellest possible punishment. A tragedy of love and revenge, Medea (431 BC) uses the fathomless clash between cultures and the sexes to force us to engage with a number of complex issues. Supported by an exceptional cast, Amalia Moutousi plays the title role accompanied by an outstanding group of Greek actors.
Media Sponsor
Angeliki Stellatou
Lighting
Music coaching
Antonis Kontogeorgiou
Voice coaching
Mirka Gementzaki
Literary associate
Giannis Lignadis
With thanks to "Spyros Nakas" for providing the piano for the rehearsals.
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MEDEA
TUTOR
MESSENGER
Amalia Moutousi
JASON
Themis Panou
CREON
Dimitris Imellos With a 15-member female chorus

CORYPHAEA
Christos Loulis
NURSE
Aris Lembesopoulos
AEGEUS
Maria Katsiadaki
Giannis Dalianis
Maria Kallimani
AMALIA MOUTOUSI, CHRISTOS LOULIS Nikos Tasoulas
THEATRE

Bank of America Merrill Lynch presents
THE BRIDGE PROJECT

produced by BAM, The Old Vic & Neal Street
With
Kevin Spacey in
William Shakespeares
RICHARD III
Directed by
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes returns to the stage to direct Old Vic Artistic Director, Kevin Spacey, in the title role of Richard III in the final season of The Bridge Project. This transatlantic endeavour reunites them for the first time since American Beauty, for which they both won BAFTA and Academy Awards. The full company will again be drawn from leading American and British actors and will embark on an international tour prior to a residency at BAM in New York.
Sam Mendes was founder and Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse for a decade and has directed theatre at the RSC, National Theatre, plus in the West End and on Broadway. His film credits include Road to Perdition and Revolutionary Road.
Proud Presenting Sponsor of The Bridge Project
Old Vic Artistic Director Kevin Spacey has most recently appeared in Inherit the Wind, Speed-the-Plow, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Richard II at The Old Vic.
Leadership support for The Bridge Project

In English with Greek surtitles
Media Sponsor
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RICHARD III
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED BY SAM MENDES
KEVIN SPACEY
KE VIN SPACE Y Robert Wilson
THEATRE
5 & 6 AUGUST / EPIDAURUS ANCIENT THEATRE
NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE

HERAKLES
by Euripides
Herakles to civilize the world, he says!

(Amphitryon, Prologue, verse 20)
Translated by
Giorgos Blanas
Michail Marmarinos
Directed by
Michail Marmarinos
Sets
Herakles seems to be of the last Greek generation a long, long time ago who believed in and fought for Ideas. To be betrayed in the end by friends and enemies alike. And it is with the absolute taste of betrayal on his lips that he is led to disaster. And then he will attempt death. Michail Marmarinos
Eleni Manolopoulou
Costumes
Kenny MacLellan
Movement Choreography
Konstantinos Rigos
Music
Dimitris Kamarotos
Lighting
Herakles is a staggering work, and one of Euripides least-performed plays. Which only serves to intensify the anticipation in advance of this production, only the second in the history of the National Theatre of Greece, directed by Michail Marmarinos.
Produced by
Thomas Walgrave
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With
Nikos Karathanos Karyofyllia Karabeti Minas Hatzisavvas Thodoris Atheridis Giannis Vogiatzis Stefania Goulioti Theodora Tzimou Giorgos Gallos
Haris Tsitsakis Giorgos Biniaris Giorgos Ziovas Argyris Pantazaras Giannis Papadopoulos Prokopis Agathokleous Alexandros Mavropoulos
Kostas Korakis Konstantinos Aspiotis Youla Boudali Dimitris Makalias Denis Makris
LIT TLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS
IC US LY
MUSIC
1 & 2 JULY / LITTLE THEATRE

OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS
NIKOS PORTOKALOGLOU IN CONCERT

REMIX
Michalis Vrettas
vocals
er
Michalis Kalkanis
double bass vocals
Nikos Paschalidis
bouzouki oud tzouras guitar
Nikos Portokaloglous idea of a remix may not be quite what youd expect. Playing with a chamber band, a tightly-knit unit of just three musicians, he gives his songs back their original, pared-down sound. As restless a spirit as he ever was even after a career spanning nearly three decades, hes stripped his songs down, transforming them afresh to reveal their heartbeat and their origins in unvarnished sounds which allow us to re-discover his hidden, endless thirst.
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NIKOS PORTOK ALOGLOU Tassos Vrettos
MUSIC

MONIKA AT THE LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS

In this magical corner of Greece, Monika will be presenting her work in an altogether different concert. Accompanied by a choir and strings, she will be performing songs new and beloved from her albums Avatar and Exit on piano and guitar, in her trademark minimalist style. We are all invited to one of her most inspired moments, far from electricity and the hum of intensity.
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MONIK A Tassos Vrettos
MUSIC

DIMITRA GALANI AND VASSILIKOS IN CONCERT

Two artists who have always enjoyed a sense of kinship from afar, and whose recent work has elevated the concept of the cover version into art, meet on stage for the first time. Its the excitement of not knowing quite what to expect that is drawing them and us to a concert which is clearly one of a kind, and breaks new ground in the Greek music sphere. Forever seeking new musical directions, Dimitra Galani has thoroughly rebuilt her repertoire of songs, while Vassilikos has added his personal touch to a number of major international hits. Their collaboration embraces everything real Greek or not which stands the test of time.
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DIMITR A GAL ANI George Malekakis
VASSILIKOS Yiannis Velissaridis
THEATRE

THE KNOWN UNKNOWN MR GATSOS

Directed by
Mania Papadimitriou
Sets
Artemis Theodoridi
Video Art
Evangelia Christakou
Music supervision
Tasos Antoniou Spyros Papatheodorou

Texts editing
Mania Papadimitriou Agathi Dimitrouka

With
The much-loved poet and lyricist, Nikos Gatsos, who indelibly marked the work of an entire generation of poets and musicians with his presence, speaks straight to our hearts once more in this imaginative music-theatre production. And while all those who will attend the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus will have an opportunity to rediscover Nikos Gatsos through a spectacle that conveys the uniqueness of the poet and his era with sensitivity, humour and vivacity, they will also be treated to a hundred years in the history of the land that gave him birth.
Tasos Antoniou
vocals guitar mandolin
Evelina Arapidou
vocals
Theodora Evgenaki
vocals
Mania Papadimitriou
vocals
Victoria Kyriakidi
flute
Marina Chronopoulou
piano electric piano accordion
Agapitos Mandalios
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NIKOS GATSOS Ib Henriksen
Ticket information
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Box office addresses & opening hours CENTRAL 39, Panepistimiou Str.
(in the Pesmazoglou Arcade)
Monday-Friday 08:30-16:00 Saturday 09:00-14:30 ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS Daily 9:00-14:00 & 18:00-21:00 ANCIENT THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS Monday-Thursday 9:00-14:00 & 17:00-20:00 Friday-Saturday 9:30- 21:30 OTHER VENUES Ticket booths are in operation at all Festival venues. Opening two hours prior to every performance, they only sell tickets for that days performances. Tickets are also sold at ELEFTHEROUDAKIS and PAPASOTIRIOU bookstores.
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Concessions Available for children aged 6-18, university students (on presentation of a valid International Student Identity Card), and people with disabilities. ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS 50% off on seats in the upper tier and Zone C. Wheelchair users: up to 8 seats available in Zone A1 of the lower tier. Disabled people
(plus 1 companion per person):
Please remember that members of the audience are prohibited from: Entering the theatre after the performance has started, except during the intermission if one has been programmed. Smoking and consuming food and drinks in the theatre. Taking photographs, with or without a flash, or recording any part of the performance. Bringing children under six years of age (not applicable to childrens performances). Tipping. Returning tickets. Members of the audience must: Display the relevant ID at the box office when picking up tickets bought via credit cards or when they are holding a concession price ticket (students, minors) proof of eligibility is required. Deactivate their cellular telephones during all performances. Age Restriction No admittance to children under a specified age limit. Tickets will not be sold to anyone under the age limit. Ticket Refund In the event of cancellation, an announcement will be made regarding refunds. All performances are in Greek unless otherwise specified.
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10 seats available in Zone A2 of the lower tier. ANCIENT THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS 50% off on seats in the upper tier and Zone B. Wheelchair users: up to 10 seats available in Section K of the lower tier. Disabled people
(plus 1 companion per person):
in the sections of the theatre where discounted tickets are available. Start times All performances: 21:00
unless otherwise specified.
Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus: 21:30
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ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS (HERODEION)
(Acropoli Metro Station)
Tel. +30210 3241807 PEIRAIOS 260

(Kallithea ISAP Station)
MEGARON, THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL Vas. Sofias Ave. & Kokkali Str.
(Megaro Moussikis Metro Station)
Tel. +30210 7282333 ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTRE 107-109, Sygrou Ave.

(Sygrou Fix Metro Station)
Tel. +30213 0 178000 APO MICHANIS THEATRO 13, Akadimou Str.

(Metaxourghio Metro Station)
Tel. +30210 5231131 TECHNOPOLIS 100, Peiraios Str.

(Kerameikos Metro Station)
Tel. +30210 3461589 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (NMCA) 1719, Vas. Georgiou II & Rigilis Str.
(Evangelismos Metro Station)
Tel. +30210 9242111-3 MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART 4, Neofytou Douka Str. / 1, Herodotou Str. & Vass. Sofias Ave.
(Evangelismos Metro Station)
Tel. + 30210 7228321 BENAKI MUSEUM 138, Peiraios Str. & Andronikou Str.
(Kerameikos Metro Station)
Tel. +30210 3453111

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(Metaxourghio Metro Station)
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Tel. +30210 3413935-7 KOREAN MARKET Opposite the Archeological Site of Kerameikos
(Thissio ISAP Station)
METROPOLITAN EXPO Metro / Suburban railway Airport Station URBAN SPACES Urban Space #1 ATHENS SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS (ASFA) 256, Peiraios Str. Urban Space #2 9th & 34th Junior High School of Athens 2, Troon Str., Thissio Urban Space #3 & Urban Space #4 IFA Insitut Franais d Athnes 32, Sina Str. Urban Space #5 National Railway Station (OSE) 1-3 Karolou Str. ANCIENT THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS Archaeological site of The Asklepion of Epidaurus Tel. +3027530 22026, +3027530 22096 LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS Palaia Epidavros Argolis
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Music 1
A TRIBUTE TO ANNIS XENAKIS (20% Off)
3 June Peiraios 260 ()
Music 3
A TRIBUTE TO MAHLER + 1 (20% Off)
26 June Herodeion
ARDITTI QUARTET
A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV MAHLER / FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA Semyon Bychkov

13 July Herodeion
LONDON SINFONIETTA
ERGON ENSEMBLE
THE BOLSHOI ORCHESTRA Vassily Sinaisky / Works by Rachmaninoff, Dvo k

15 July Herodeion
Music 2
ORCHESTRAS AT THE ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS (20% Off)
12 June Herodeion
A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV MAHLER / ATHENS STATE ORCHESTRA Vassilis Christopoulos
Music 4
OPERA (20% Off)
4 July Megaron (Lambrakis Hall)
A TRIBUTE TO FRANZ LISZT / THESSALONIKI STATE ORCHESTRA Alexandros Myrat

24 June Herodeion
A TRIBUTE TO ODYSSEAS ELYTIS / ORCHESTRA OF COLOURS Miltos Logiades

26 June Herodeion
LE CERCLE DE LHARMONIE / MOZART, Idomeneo

6 July Onassis Cultural Centre
LATINITAS NOSTRA / MONTEVERDI, The Coronation of Poppea

12 & 14 July Megaron (Trianti Hall)
A TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV MAHLER / FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA Semyon Bychkov
THE BOLSHOI OPERA / TCHAIKOVSKY, Eugene Onegin
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Dance 1
GREEK DANCE COMPANIES (20% Off)
11-12 June Peiraios 260 ()
Dance 3
(20% Off)
ELPIDA ORFANIDOU Parrots at the seabed (21:00) / TRIO 7D9 Rush (22:00)
ELPIDA ORFANIDOU Parrots at the seabed (21:00) / TRIO 7D9 Rush (22:00)
LEMURIUS DANCE COMPANY / Blockbuster

LEMURIUS DANCE COMPANY / Blockbuster

27-29 June Peiraios 260 (D)
CIE MAGUY MARIN / Salves
PERSA STAMATOPOULOU DANCE CO. / Look at me

Dance 4
(20% Off)
THE PLANT COLLECTIVE / Double Take
Dance 2
(25% Off)
17-19 June
Peiraios 260 ()
ZEYNEP TANBAY DANS PROJES / Araz

CIE MAGUY MARIN / May B

ZEYNEP TANBAY DANS PROJES / Araz

PERSA STAMATOPOULOU DANCE CO. / Look at me

CIE MAGUY MARIN / May B

THE PLANT COLLECTIVE / Double Take

3-5 July Peiraios 260 (D)
FORSYTHE COMPANY / Yes we can't

19-20 July Herodeion
SYLVIE GUILLEM / 6,000 miles away Choreographies by Ek, Forsythe, Kylian
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Theatre 1
(20% Off)
Theatre 3
(20% Off)
3-5 July Peiraios 260 ()
Medusa Drafts and improvisations on rafts and shipwrecks

18 June Herodeion
THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES / Melpo Axioti The transformation of the chrysalis

5 July Herodeion
STAVROS S. TSAKIRIS / Nijinsky I am puppet in the hands of God

22-25 June Peiraios 260 (H)
ARIS RETSOS / The throne of Atreus

THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES / Partali

SOC ETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO Romeo Castellucci / On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God
THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES / Clytemnestra Stage E
Theatre 2
(20% Off)
10-12 & 15-19 June Metropolitan Expo
TH TRE DU SOLEIL Ariane Mnouchkine / The Castaways of the Fol Espoir (Sunrises)
28 June - 1 July Onassis Cultural Centre
KRZYSZTOF WARLIKOWSKI / (A)pollonia

5 July Herodeion
ARIS RETSOS / The throne of Atreus

9-10 July Herodeion
WAJDI MOUAWAD / Women
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Theatre - Music - Dance

(20% Off)
9-10 July Herodeion
Emerging Greek Artists

(20% Off)
6 July Onassis Cultural Centre
WAJDI MOUAWAD / Women

12 & 14 July Megaron (Trianti Hall)
THE BOLSHOI OPERA / TCHAIKOVSKY, Eugene Onegin

19-20 July Herodeion
LATINITAS NOSTRA / MONTEVERDI, The Coronation of Poppea

11-13 July NMCA
SYLVIE GUILLEM / 6,000 miles away Choreographies by Ek, Forsythe, Kylian
VASISTAS THEATRE COMPANY / Spectacle

PEQUOD THEATRE COMPANY / Working Hypothesis
Theatre - Dance
(20% Off)
18 June Herodeion
18-20 July
Peiraios 260 ()
THEATRICAL MONOLOGUES / PAPADIAMANTIS, A Dream on the Wave
STAVROS S. TSAKIRIS / Nijinsky I am puppet in the hands of God

22-25 June Peiraios 260 (H)
SOC ETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO Romeo Castellucci / On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God

FORSYTHE COMPANY / Yes we can't

KOLYADA TEATR / SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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Hellenic Festival S.A.
Publications Department
Editor-in-chief
THEATRE
Editor-in-chief
Dio Kangelari Kallia Anagnostaki [Urban Space #1,

Urban Space #3, Urban Space #4, Urban Space #5, Theatrical Monologues / Clytemnestra Stage E]
Klimentini Vounelaki
Co-ordination
Anastasios Koukoutas
Martha Koskina [Theatrical

Monologues / A Dream on the Wave]
Katerina Konstantinakou
[Theatrical Monologues, Vasistas Theatre Co., Pequod Theatre Co.]
Contributing editors:
MUSIC
Gianna Tsokou
[Nijinsky, DI.PE.THE. of Crete, Diadromi Theatre, N.Greece State Theatre, Aplo Theatre] DANCE
Leonidas Antonopoulos
[World Sounds]
Khar lampos Goy s

[A Tribute to Iannis Xenakis, The Beggars Operas]
Editor-in-chief Klimentini Vounelaki Anastasios Koukoutas [trio 7d9,

Zeynep Tanbay, The Plant Collective] ----
Kyriakos Loukakos
[Le Cercle de lHarmonie]
Dionysis Mallouhos [A Tribute to Liszt] Yulie Papatheodorou [Greek National

Opera, The Bolshoi Opera, Latinitas Nostra, A Tribute to Mahler]
Panagiotis Douros
[Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus]
Katerina Schina
[Filarmonica della Scala]
Maria Lambrou [Naked Hands] Maria Panagiotopoulou

[Theatrical Monologues / Dirt, A Tribute to Odysseas Elytis]
Isma M. Toulatou
[The Bolshoi Orchestra]
Selana Vronti [Doug Aitken]
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Michael Eleftheriou
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We have to organize pessimism

1 & 3-5 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

GREEK NATIONAL OPERA

the Orchestra and Chorus of the Greek National Opera

Nikos Vassiliou ROSARTE Childrens Choir

Rosie Mastrosavva (Pagliacci)

In Italian with Greek surtitles

Irini Karaianni (1, 4/6) Georgia Iliopoulou (3, 5/6)

Rudy Park (1, 4/6) Angelo Simos (3, 5/6)

Dimitris Platanias (1, 4/6) Carlos Almaguer (3, 5/6)

Dimitris Platanias (1, 4/6) Carlos Almaguer (3, 5/6)

Antonis Koroneos (1, 3, 5/6) Nikos Stefanou (4/6)

1 & 2 JUNE / KOREAN MARKET

Presented & Directed by

9-11 & 15, 16 JUNE

12:00 - 20:00 Live installation 20:00 - 24:00 Live performance

PHOTO CREDIT: ANDREW HOLBROOKE/CORBIS

3, 6, 8 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 ()

A TRIBUTE TO ANNIS XENAKIS

Diatope - La lgende dEer

25, 20, Concs. 15

Dhipli Zyia for violin

Anaktoria for clarinet,

Xenakis Electro-acoustic mix Charisma for clarinet

Palimpsest for 11 musicians

10-12 & 15-19 JUNE /

Direction Set design

Everest Canto de Montserrat

In French with Greek surtitles START TIME

30, 25, Concs. 20

TH TRE DU SOLEIL Michle Laurent

11 & 12 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 ()

11 & 12 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 ()

TRIO 7D9 / RUSH

Karl Paquemar Marion Ruchti Xenia Themeli Christos Strinopoulos

12 JUNE / ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS

THESSALONIKI STATE ORCHESTRA

Alexandros Myrat Franz Schubert (1797-1828) / Franz Liszt Fantasia in C major,

Franz Liszt Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in A major,

Symphony No. 3 in F major,

30, 15, Concs. 10

13 & 14 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 ()

THE BEGGARS OPERAS

Orchestrated & Conducted by

25, 20, Concs. 15

13 & 14 JUNE / KUNSTHALLE ATHENA

Themis Bazaka Marina Fokidis

KUNSTHALLE ATHENA Dimitris Papadopoulos

13-17 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 (D)

25, 20, Concs. 15

DETAIL FROM THODORE GRIC AULT'S PAIN TING LE RADEAU DE LA MDUSE

15 & 16 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 ()

LEMURIUS DANCE COMPANY / BLOCKBUSTER

Nikos Dragonas Ioannis Mandafounis Katerina Skiada

Kleio Boboti Roza Giannopoulou

Anastasis Gouliaris Dimitris Tasainas Foteinos Tsakopoulos

LEMURIUS DANCE COMPAN Y Kleio Boboti

EL TANBUR A Gareth Blake

17-19 JUNE / PEIRAIOS 260 ()

ZEYNEP TANBAY DANS PROJES / ARAZ

Zeynep Tanbay Arek Nianyan

25, 20, Concs. 15