Minas I. Alexiadis "The Secret of the Attica Rivers"
Greek National Opera Stavros Niarchos Hall
Composition / Libretto Minas I. Alexiadis
Conductor: Andreas Tselikas
Stage director: Nikos Diamantis

Seer Tiresias: Nikos Spanatis

Ilissos: Christos Kechris | Eridanos: Kostas Mavrogenis | Cephissus: George Mathaiakakis | Aunt Katie: Margarita Syngeniotou | Callirhoe: Marianna Polychronidi | Seer Tiresias: Nikos Spanatis | Shadow: Achileas Haldaiakis | Goddess Athena: Margarita Varlamou | Mr Takis: Kostas Flokatoulas

With a vocal ensemble and eleven member orchestraThis opera, subtitled “Ecological opera Rated R”, is the first musico-theatrical work based on the subject of the rivers and streams of Attica. Here, the three imprisoned rivers (Ilissos, Heridanos,Cephissus) and the nymph Callirhoe, are functioning in personal and love adventures. They are tormented by the “baron of the night” Mr. Takis, but with the guidance of the goddess Athena and an prophecy of the seer Teiresias, they are led to their restoration and liberation, through an optimistic triumphant finale.