Organization

Singer

Tenor

Dimitris Paksoglou

Gabriel of Eisenstein

Yannis Kalyvas

Nikos Kotenidis

Soprano

Eleni Calenos

Rosalinde

Anna Stylianaki

Baritone

Kostis Rasidakis

Frank

Marios Sarantidis

Mezzo-soprano

Artemis Bogri

Prince Orlofsky

Taxiarchoula Kanati

Vassilis Kavayas

Alfred

Christos Kechris

Yannis Kavouras

Doctor Blind

Dionisios Melogiannidis

Yannis Selitsaniotis

Doctor Falke

Georgios Iatrou

Vassiliki Karayanni

Adele

Marilena Striftobola

Ioanna Forti

Myrto Bokolini

Spoken

Dimitris Nalbantis

Frosch

Frosch/Murrey

Conductor

Giorgos Ziavras

Stage director

Alexandros Efklidis

Set designer

Sotiris Stelios

Costume designer

Alexia Theodoraki

Lighting designer

Melina Mascha

Choreographer

Maria Kousouni

Chorus master

Agathangelos Georgakatos

Translator

Dimitris Dimopoulos

Greek National Opera

gríska

Die Fledermaus -  (The Bat)

Athens

Greece

Niarchos Hall

Public

The Bat

enska

Approved

Orlofsky, Taxiarchoula Kanati

The Bat 2020 - National Opera A Performance for the 80 years of the National Opera

Η Νυχτερίδα 2020 - Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή | Μια Παράσταση για τα 80 χρόνια της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής

The Bat - National Opera Die Fledermaus - Greek National Opera | Promo 2020

Η Νυχτερίδα - Eθνική Λυρική Σκηνή | Die Fledermaus - Greek National Opera | Promo 2020

Johann Strauss junior’s Die Fledermaus is the work with which we will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Greek National Opera, since the famous operetta was the inaugural work of the Greek National Opera that premiered on the stage of the National Theatre on 5 March 1940. 

It is a work inscribed in the Greek National Opera’s DNA, which has been interpreted by some of its most important protagonists and has been timelessly loved by its audience. It is a work that has been “hellenified”, as one would say, through its so tight identification with the musico-theatrical life of post-war Greece and of the National Opera in particular.

The production that was first presented in 2014 at the Olympia Theatre, directed by Alexandros Efklidis, transfers the action of the work to the bourgeois living rooms of Athens and the cabanas of the Asteras Vouliagmenis resort, during the ’60s. In fact, the party of the Soviet ambassador Orlovsky takes place on 20 April 1967 in the evening, on the eve of the military coup. The dawn finds our heroes behind bars. 

The director notes about Die Fledermaus: “The transfer to ‘our reality’ is a process absolutely interweaved with light music theatre everywhere in the world. Before being considered as one of the masterpieces of serious music, Die Fledermaus was a very popular work, that has undergone many local adaptations in the various countries where it has been performed. The intention of our performance derives from this logic and attempts to achieve a balance between the respect due to such a work and the equally legitimate lack of respect required by the operetta genre. Besides, isn’t this what operetta as genre systematically did? It played with limits, produced meaning through a constant coming in-and-out of the various contexts with which it engages: light theatre, and serious music, lofty and cheap, bourgeois and ‘popular’, international artistic currents and locality. The reframing we attempt in our version of Die Fledermaus is nothing more than a change of frame: what matters is the painting”.

The guests at prince Orlovsky’s party on the celebratory performance of the 5th of March 2020 –the 80th anniversary of the GNO– will be a special surprise.

English

The Bat by Strauss II, Frá (2020/2020), Leikstýrt af Alexandros Efklidis,, Hljómsveitarstjóri Giorgos Ziavras, Greek National Opera, Athens, Greece

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