Organization

Athens-Epidaurus Festival

Chios Music Festival

Conductor

Faidra Giannelou

Stage director

Sofia Simitzis

Translator

Maria Manti

Set designer

Thomas Goerge

Costume designer

Gina Iliopoulou

Lighting designer

Eliza Alexandropoulou

Choreographer

Mikes Glykas

Konstantinos Papanikolaou

Repetiteur

Beata Pincetić

Christos Sakellaridis

Sound designer

Panagiotis Paraskevaidis

Singer

Contralto

Irini Tzanetoulakou

Tenor

Dionisios Melogiannidis

Baritone

Dionyssis Tsantinis

Chorus master

Katerina Tsitsa

Soprano

Angelika Karagkouni

Others

Sonoare Youth Chorus

Orchestra

Ventus Ensmble

The Soccer Opera

Athens

Greece

Peiraios 260

The Soccer Opera Veniadis

Public

Private

Approved

Football (also known as soccer in some countries): the most popular sport in the world. We all have childhood and teenage memories from football matches between kids in the neighbourhood and rival schools or matches in squares and local fields. Elefterios Veniadis draws on his own exciting football memories for his new, strikingly original opera. What if you watched a 3x3 soccer match where opera singers and dancers served as players, with two rival choirs as fans, chanting demanding polyphonic songs in place of mottos? And what if the sportscaster stopped commenting on the game and started providing political commentary on world news instead? Set pieces, penalty kicks, yellow cards, protests, goals, missed opportunities, offside, extra time: these are the ingredients of an unexpected libretto by Austrian writer Gerhild Steinbuch, directed into an opera by Sofia Simitzis.

English

The Soccer Opera by Veniadis, From (2021/2021), Directed by Sofia Simitzis,, Conductor Faidra Giannelou, Peiraios 260, Athens, Greece

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer

Program, About & Synopsis

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Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues