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Cretan Girl – Spyridon Samaras
Olympia City Music Theater “Maria Callas”
Comic melodrama in three acts
Libretto by Nikolaos Laskaris and Polyvios Dimitrakopoulos
PREMIERE 18 DECEMBER 2021
19, 21, 23, 25, 27 Dec 2021
Conductor: Andreas Tselikas
Director: Petros Zoulias
Sets/Costumes: Anastasia Arseni
Musical preparation: Dimitris Yakas
Director assistant: Konstantina Strani
Movement: Fotis Diamantopoulos
Lighting: Katerina Maragoudaki
Music research and overview: Vyron Fidetzis
Chorus master: Stavros Beris
| Areti | Eleni Voudouraki |
| Miranta Makrynioti | |
| Contassa | Marilena Striftompola |
| Annie Fassea | |
| Duke | Dionissis Tsantinis |
| Giorgos Papadimitriou | |
| Dutchess | Gulia Souglakou |
| Maria Vlachopoulou | |
| Pavlos | Dimitris Paksoglou |
| Konstantinos Klironomos | |
| Michalis | Yannis Filias |
| Christos Kechris | |
| Furlanos | Marios Sarantidis |
| Giorgos Iatrou | |
| Don Placido | Pavlos Pantazopoulos |
| Marinos Tarnanas |
With the Orchestra and Chorus of the Athens City Symphony Orchestra
In the program of its first production the Cretan girl is referred to as a comic melodrama; there is no indication though concerning the genre on the composer’s manuscript. Although the plot is set on Crete during the Venetian rule (1211-1715), the inspiration for the work came probabley from the Cretan revolutions against the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th century, the foundation of the Cretan State (1896-1913) and finally the unification of Crete with Greece after the Balkan Wars of 1912/3. Central figure of the plot is Areti, the Cretan girl. She tries to gain priviliges for her compaltriots from the Venetian Duke of Crete, who is in love with her. Around this basic plot a number of comical sentmental stories unfolds, which lead the opera to a happy ending
Ticket prices: €15, €17, €20, €30, €40
Students, reduced: €10
Limited visibility seats: €5