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"Nights of the Candles"
Vasilis Koutsavlis
Artists
The central Hall of Shields of the Queen’s Tower and parts of the garden will be lit up again this Christmas as well as the historic Gothic chandelier inside the Tower. The 4.5-meter Christmas Tree, along with a dreamy Christmas table, will set the tone and the magic of the holiday. Vassilis Koutsavlis will welcome the audience with a presentation on Christmas customs and traditions around the world. The renowned countertenor Nikos Spanatis with his distinctive voice, and the excellent Rezarta Krougia on the violin and Semeli Kostourou and Alba Lymtsiouli on the cello, will create a reverent but still festive atmosphere of rare musical sensibility. | ||
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All of Greece, One Culture "The Wondrous Story of Hor-Hor Agha" 19.08 — 20.08.2024
The Wondrous Story of Hor-Hor Agha is a shadow puppet music theatre performance inspired by the 1875 operetta Leblebici hor-hor agha (The Chickpea Seller). It features original music for two singers and musicians from the Oros Ensemble, along with a new reading of the work, focusing on the tensions between the present and a past that is forever gone. Searching for his daughter in the streets of a big city, the central hero clashes with a strange and at first hostile world, while his journey leads him to a path of transformation. Expanding its technical boundaries, the shadow puppet theatre form (featuring Eirini Mastora) transforms into the stage setting of a contemporary fairy tale. The music creates the background of sounds where the characters develop, while the text establishes a new story by combining folk and art traditions, oral and written language. |
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Municipal Theatre of Piraeus - Nikos Diamantis Keratsini Sea Food Market 07/07/2024 at 19:00 Nikos Spanatis, countertenor Ethics, justice, democracy, and the environment are always issues in the contemporary political landscape, shaken by distrust in the public sphere and disbelief in the potential to represent the ‘I’ within the community. Furthermore, the new realities emerging concerning issues of gender identities, bioethics, and the environment make it imperative to redefine the ‘We’ and to encourage social participation and inclusion. Focusing on the triptych Health – Food – Language, the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus proposes a platform of creative collaboration between about 30 artists aspiring to raise awareness, mobilise citizens, and create synergies. This highly aspiring action engages four social foundations* that address distinct population groups (people on the autism spectrum, people with special skills, children, etc.). The programme will take place in three different landmark venues, each corresponding to its different aspects: the Keratsini Sea Food Market (Food), the Sotiria Hospital (Health), and the National Library of Greece (Language). |
"The Night of the Candles" An unforgettable Christmas experience |
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The central hall of the Queen's Tower portals and parts of the garden will be illuminated, the historic Gothic chandelier will be lit again (from the Queen Amalia era) with 32 electric candles, while electric candles will illuminate the interior of the Tower. The 4 metre Christmas tree along with a dreamy Christmas table will set the tone and magic of the celebration. Mr. Vassilis Koutsavlis will take the audience on a journey with a presentation about the customs and traditions of Christmas around the world, followed in the second part by a singing recital with masterpiece Christmas songs by great composers from the Baroque, Romantic, modern and film eras such as Vladimir Vlavilov, Howard Blake, Deborah Hanson - Conant, Georg Frideric Handel, Benjamin Britten, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Irving Berlin. as well as Christmas melodies from the English musical tradition. |
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This year, for the second time in the history of Queen's Tower, the countertenor Nikos Spanatis will sing at the event with Athanasia Manou on the harp, creating a solemn atmosphere of rare musical sensation. |
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The evening will close at the Queen's Tower shop where a treat and other treats will be offered. The Queen's Tower is the country's newest monument. The events will take place in the Tower's lounge on the second floor and the public will enter without footwear. Ticket cost: 36,00 euro/person, children 12 to 17 years old: 15,00 euro/child The events are sold out. Duration of event: 2 hours Poster creation © George Papageorgiou |
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Greek National Opera 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 10, 11, 12 Feb 2023 Opera • Commissioned by the GNO Greek National Opera Alternative Stage Starts at 20.30 (Sunday: 19.30) | Two performances: 5/2 at 17.00 & 19.30 Panos H. Koutras’ stunning, multi-awarded film Strella (2009), a milestone in modern Greek cinema, becomes a chamber opera commissioned by the Greek National Opera from composer Michalis Paraskakis. An emblematic film about the visibility of trans people and the LGTBQ+ community in Greece and abroad inspires for the first time a Greek operatic work.
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Odeon of Herodes Atticus Carl Orff: Carmina Burana Marios Fragoulis, Deborah Myers & Nikos Spanatis ERT National Symphony Orchestra Saturday 8 October 2022, 21:00 The multi-member group with the three soloists among which the Marios Fragkoulis, intends to face off on October 8 in Herodion with the best-known choral / symphonic work of the 20th century, the iconic Carmina Burana.
TV SPOT It is a music conception of colossal proportions which has been captivating music-loving audiences of all ages around the world for about eighty years. Carl Orff’s music, direct, with a disarming naivety, which however hides within it, a genius concept, paints in a wonderful way images and emotions through time. The influence of fate in people’s lives, the love of nature, love, wine and fun, inspire today in the same way they inspired the would-be monks of the Middle Ages to write these graceful verses.
Orchestra Conductor:
ERT National Symphony Orchestra Ert Choir Rosarte Children's Choir Through Orff’s work, which manages to touch the most subtle and the most majestic emotions at the same time, musicians and choirs with partnership of Marios Fragoulis, Deborah Myers, Nikos Spanatis they promise to deliver it with symphonic and choral volumes that sometimes captivate like a shock wave and sometimes, with the finest touches of sound, caress the senses. A new journey through time, from the Bavarian monasteries of the Middle Ages, the madrigals, the Gregorian organ and the wild renaissance dances, the avant guarde of the 1930s, to the eclecticism and deep historical knowledge that characterizes the musical style of our time.
“Thyateira Association” is a philanthropic, cultural and social association with multidimensional activity that supports the humanitarian work of the Most Reverend Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence and Exarch of Western Europe and Ireland Mr. Nikitas and i(s an important bridge for Greeks in the diaspora with the Motherland. Its main goals are to help fellow human beings, to promote Hellenism and to continuously promote Greece on the world map of culture.”
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ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS Friday 10 July 2020 Alessandro Grandi (1586 - 1630) Arvo Pärt (1935 - ) Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901) Ludovico Viadana (1560-1627) Pelham Humfrey (1647- 1674) F. Liszt (1811-1886) Yiorgos Vassilandonakis (1969 - ) Giorgos Koumentakis (1959 – )
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Festival - A short Winter Journey Studio of Kalamata Concert Hall |
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15th International Classical Music Festival of Cyclades 10 - 17 August 2019 Tuesday 13 August 2019, 21:00 Nikos Spanatis & Cyclades Festival Chamber Orchestra |
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ORGAN RECITALS 2018 Nikos Spanatis, countertenor 3rd November 2018 |
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