The Secret of the Rivers – Minas Alexiadis
3rd Lyrical South Festival: A melodic Festival for all audiences
Greek National Opera – Stavros Niarchos Hall
22 JULY 2023
Composition / Libretto Minas I. Alexiadis
Conductor Andreas Tselikas
Director Nikos Diamantis
Sets Artemis Flessa
Costumes Asi Dimitropoulou
Choreography Pierre Tavernier
Lighting Christos Tziogas
Musical preparation Spyros Souladakis
Assistant director Vassia Zorbali
Assistant set designer Aggeliki Vassilopoulou Kampitsi
Ilisos | Christos Kechris |
Eridanos | Kostas Mavrogenis |
Cephissus | Dimitris Kasioumis |
Aunt Katie | Margarita Syngeniotou |
Callirhoe | Marianna Polychronidi |
Seer Tiresias | Nikos Spanatis |
Shadow | Achileas Haldeakis |
Goddess Athena | Margarita Varlamou |
Mr Takis | Kostas Flokatoulas |
With a vocal ensemble and eleven member orchestra
This opera, subtitled “Ecological opera Rated R”, is the first musical theater work based on the theme of the rivers and streams of Attica. Here, the three imprisoned rivers (Ilissos, Iridanos, Kifissos* “the writing is kept according to the composer’s wish”) and the nymph Callirhoe star 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 oracle of the seer Teiresias, they are led to their emergence and liberation, through an optimistic triumphant finale.
Recommended for audiences over the age of 15
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