22 & 23 July, Archaeological Museum of Thebes
Production: ALEXANDRIA
Genre: Music
Time: 21:15
Duration: 70’
Pre-booking for 22nd of July
Pre-booking for 23rd of July
The three artists offer a musical and poetic presentation of the relationship between Kalomiris and Palamas, a rare phenomenon of osmosis between two leading exponents of the Greek letters.
In his autobiography, the great composer from Smyrna, Manolis Kalomiris, recalls his life against the backdrop of Asia Minor, and also how he had dreamt since childhood to become one day the shaper of Greece’s musical language – a “Palamas” of contemporary Greek music. This music-theatre rehearsed reading is based on Tina Malikouti’s idea to combine the composer’s piano works with K. Palamas’ poem “The Twelve Lays of the Gypsy”, which had left a defining mark on M. Kalomiris’ entire artistic career, capturing the nature of the modern Greek soul.
Smyrna, Constantinople, Vienna, Athens. Images from the life of a cosmopolitan Greece spread over the East and the West.
Creative team
Concept based on an idea of Tina Malikouti
Text processing, editing: Nena Venetsanou
Set, costumes: Maria Karathanou
Lighting: Zoi Molyvda-Fameli
On stage
Narrator: Nena Venetsanou
Piano: Tina Malikouti
Actor: Vasilis Vlahos