of members of the community – the volunteers, donors, and hosts who support Opera in Williamsburg. Volunteers are welcome to join our advisory board and Opera in Williamsburg Presents help in any other way. Opera in Williamsburg, Inc is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization with 501(c)3 Greek Art Songs letter of recognition from the IRS (EIN 47-5511655). Donations may be made by checks made out to “Opera in Williamsburg, Inc” and mailed to PO Box 2041, Williamsburg, VA 23187, or by credit card via our web site, of Manos Hadjidakis www.operainwilliamsburg.org March 4, 2020, at the Williamsburg Regional Library, 515 Scotland St, Williamsburg, VA Stefanos Koroneos, Baritone At the piano: Areti Giovanou UPCOMING EVENTS OF OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG IN 2020 Opera in Williamsburg’s spring production, Puccini’s La Bohème, will take  Federico Garcia Lorca, The Blood Wedding-- place at the Kimball Theatre on Friday May 8 at 7 PM, Sunday May 10 at 2 Ο Ματωμένος Γάμος, baritone and piano PM, Tuesday May 13 at 7 PM, and Friday May 15 at 3 PM. Tickets are  Six Popular Pictures -- Έξι Λαϊκές Ζωγραφιές, available on our website or by phone at 1-800-249-0179. piano Opera in Williamsburg’s Fall 2020 production, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, will take place at the Kimball Theatre on Monday September 7 (Labor Day) at 2  , Captain Michaelis -- Καπετάν PM, Wednesday Septenber 9 at 7 PM, Friday September 11 at 7 PM, and Μιχάλης, baritone and piano Sunday September 13 at 2 PM. Tickets are available on our website, and will be available by phone closer to the date at 1-800-249-0179. Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director who achieved international recognition. He was killed by Opera in Williamsburg’s Fundraising Auction, Dinner, and Concert will take Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. place on Sunday May 3 at 5:30 PM at the Colonial Heritage Clubhouse at One of the most influential collaborations in modern Greek Music was between 6500 Arthur Hills Drive, Williamsburg – please reserve your dinner tickets by composer Manos Hadjidakis and the poet (Νίκος Γκάτσος 1911- April 28 on our website or by phone at (757) 871-3653. 1992). Beautiful, exceptional songs emerged from their partnership over about Meet and hear the Artists of La Bohème at the Stryker Center at 412 North four decades, from the 1940s to the 1980s. Their first collaboration of 1948 Boundary St., Williamsburg, on Thursday April 30 from 7-8 PM, free and open was of Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” which was also Gatsos’ first play . to the public. Garcia Lorca, from The Blood Wedding: Please check our website closer for more events in August and September My golden little bride 2020. Lullabye Opera in Williamsburg is supported in part by generous grants of the Winged girl of the water mill Williamsburg Area Arts Commission, the York County Arts Commission, the My tiny ball of twine He was the pride of the dawn Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Williamsburg Community My golden little bride Foundation and the Hampton Roads Come now, my golden little bride Community Foundation. It works in As you step forth from your home partnership with the America- Remember to shine, full of life Bright as the morning-star Cultural Foundation. Opera in Williamsburg, Inc, PO Box 2041, Your limbs all freshly washed Your dress so newly fashioned Williamsburg, VA 23187 You step forth from your house www.operainwilliamsburg.org By and by you’ll reach the shrine Lullabye Winged girl of the water mill His very first work was the tune for the song "Paper Moon" ("Χάρτινο το Lulla-lullabye, my baby Return, winged girl of the mill, Φεγγαράκι"), from ' staged Our gallant horse Let the waters come flowing in by 's Art Theatre of , a collaboration which continued for Is never thirsty Divert the murky river 15 years. His first piano piece, "For a Little White Seashell" ("Για μια Μικρή Ah, sweatheart, who knows And let the family approach Λευκή Αχιβάδα"), came out in 1947 and in 1948 he shook the musical What the stream is singing Come out on your whitest balcony establishment by delivering his legendary lecture on , the urban folk Down in the verdant meadow? My golden little moon. rembetika Lulla-lullabye, black waters songs that flourished in Greek cities, mainly , after the Asia Minor Amidst the green weeds The newly-weds are singing refugee influx in 1922 and until then had heavy underworld and cannabis use Begin their lilting song. Ready to cross the river connections and were consequently looked down upon. Hatzidakis focused on Lulla-lullabye, my rose-bush, The dew sparkles on the grass the economy of expression, the deep traditional roots and the genuineness of Our gallant horse The family will soon arrive. emotion displayed in rembetika, and exalted the likes of composers Markos Waters the earth with its tears. Now every bitter almond Vamvakaris and . He adapted classic rembetika in his 1951 With its harnest hard as a diamond Will fill with sweatest honey. piano work, Six Popular Pictures (Έξι Λαϊκές Ζωγραφιές), which was later also It is hiding a silver stiletto presented as a folk ballet. In 1949 he co-founded the Greek Dance Theatre Piercing the whites of its eyes. Return, winged girl of the mill Company with the choreographer . Only once, when it glimpsed Let the waters come flowing in The brave mountains By way of the shining river At this point he began writing immensely popular "pop" songs and movie It neighed and vanished And let the family approach. soundtracks alongside more serious works. Hatzidakis always maintained that Into the darkest waters. Come out on your whitest balcony, he wrote his serious pieces for himself and his less serious ones to make a Gallant horse, where have you gone; My golden little moon. living. 1960 brought him international success, as his song "Never on Why don’t you want to drink? Sunday" ("Τα παιδιά του Πειραιά"), from 's film Never on Ah, withering grief in the snow. My tiny ball of twine Sunday (Ποτέ την Κυριακή), won him an Academy Award and became a Lullabye, my lily, my lily, My tiny ball of twine Our gallant horse What do you want to become? worldwide hit. In 1962, he completed his score for ' Birds Waters the earth with its tears. A crystal-clear sheet of paper (Όρνιθες), which caused an uproar over Karolos Koun's revolutionary Don’t come so close, stay outside, A snow-white jasmine-bud. direction. The score was also used later by Maurice Béjart's Ballet of the The window is firmly latticed Before it is born, it must fade 20th Century. In 1966 he travelled to for the premiere of With the leaves of a dream Before it can leave, it is lost. Illya Darling, a Broadway musical based on , which starred With the dreams of these leaves. Mercouri. He did not return to until 1972 due to his opposition to My tiny child’s fast asleep, My tiny ball of twine Greece's military dictatorship. My baby is quiet and calm. What do you want to sing? Little horse, where have you gone; Wounds molded out of wax Hatzidakis returned to Greece in 1972 and recorded Magnus Eroticus with Why don’t you want to drink, Sorrows spun out of myrtle opera-trained alto Fleury Dantonaki and singer Dimitris Psarianos. Following My galant horse of the dawn? Daybreak is going to heal the junta's overthrow, he became active in public life and assumed a number of The pain brooding in the night. positions in the Athens State Orchestra (KOA), the National Opera (ELS), and the National Radio (ERT). He died in 1994 in Athens at the age of 68. In 1999 My tiny ball of twine the City of Athens dedicated Technopolis in his memory. He was buried in Whom do you want to describe? Paiania. (based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manos_Hatzidakis) A dearly beloved friend A bridegroom bereft of speech. OPERA IN WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA is an innovative opera company, I saw them stretched out below founded in 2012, that creates productions of fully-staged opera classics, as well Down in the blackest valley. as other operas and opera-music performances, with world-class professional casts in intimate settings in Williamsburg, Virginia. Funded by ticket sales, individual contributions, and grants, Opera in Williamsburg is committed to the highest artistic standards. We are very grateful indeed for the generous support

Areti Giovanou is a classically trained pianist with an MM in piano He was the pride of the dawn performance and a MM in vocal accompaniment, both from Mannes College of He was the pride of the dawn Arm-in-arm with many a maiden. Music and currently an active freelancer. Equally at home as a soloist, chamber By far the most handsome rider. Who would ever have dreamed and orchestral musician, Areti has performed in many of New York's leading But now he is a handful of snow. He’d wear a wreathe in his hair venues including City Hall, Steinway Hall, the Morgan Library, Opera He rode the valleys and hills Woven from night-blooming cereus America, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Goethe Institut, and Grolier Club in And visited festival fairs New York City. Appearances abroad include Greece, , and . She has also performed with the Archdiocesan Metropolitan Youth Choir of New York Captain Michalis is a 1953 novel by the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis. It is at the Presidential Palace of Cyprus, Zappeion Hall in Athens, and at the White known as Freedom and Death in the United Kingdom and as Freedom or House, USA. Areti has presented (and musically coached) operas, theatrical Death in other languages. The writer was influenced by his early years on the plays, musicals and operettas such as Norma, , The Godson, island of and uses faithfully the local dialect. It is one of the most widely Crisis, The Princess Goes to War and others. Areti has active partnerships with read books of and has been translated into several the Greek Cultural Center (Queens), offering her expertise as a music director, languages, including English and Hebrew. It is thought that the book was choir director or pianist. She is a recipient of the Hellenic Republic Scholarship inspired by Kazantzakis' father, Michalis Kazantzakis. The word Captain is Foundation for Postgraduate Studies. used as the title of the leader of a guerilla group. The writer's father Michalis Manos Hadjidakis (also spelled Hatzidakis; Μάνος Kazantzakis was a leader of such a group. There have been several theatrical adaptations of the book in Greece. Manos Hadjidakis set to music texts taken Χατζιδάκις; 1925 –1994) was a Greek composer and unaltered from the book by Gerasimos Stavrou theorist of Greek music, widely considered as one of the greatest Greek composers of all time. His legacy . and contribution is widespread among the works of Όμορφη που `ναι η Κρήτη, όμορφη. Beautiful Crete, beautiful. contemporary Greek music, through the second half of Έι και να `μουνα αετός να την I wish I was an eagle the 20th and into the 21st century. He was also one of καμάρωνα to fly over her. the main proponents of the "Éntekhno" form of music όλη, απ’ την κορφή του αγέρα. Παντέρμη Κρήτη πόσες γενιές Poor Crete, (along with ). In 1960, he received φωνάζεις, For how many generations an Oscar for Best Original Song for his song Never ποιος σ’ ακούει; are you weeping? on Sunday from the film of the same name. was born on 23 October 1925 in , Greece to lawyer Φοβέρα θέλει κι ο Θεός Who listens to you? για να κάνει το θάμα του. Grab the rifle, Georgios Hatzidakis, who came from the village of Mirthios, Agios Vasileios Πιάσε το ντουφέκι, grab the rifle again. in the Rethymno prefecture in Crete; and Aliki Arvanitidou, who came from πιάσε πάλι το ντουφέκι. Adrianopolis. His musical education began at the age of four and consisted of piano lessons from the Armenian pianist Altunian. He also learned to play the Δεν ήταν νησί It was not an island violin and the accordion. After the separation of his parents, Hatzidakis moved Δεν ήταν νησί It was not an island permanently to Athens in 1932 with his mother, where the young Hatzidakis ήταν θεριό που κείτουνταν στη θάλασσα it was a beast lying in the sea earned his livelihood as a docker at the port, an ice seller at the Fix factory, an Ήταν η γοργόνα It was the mermaid employee in Megalokonomou's photography shop and as an assistant nurse at η αδερφή του ΜέγαΑλέξανδρου the sister of Alexander the Great the 401 Military Hospital. At the same time, he expanded his musical που θρηνούσε who grieved knowledge by studying advanced music theory with Menelaos Pallandios and και φουρτούνιαζε το πέλαγο and caused tempests in the sea philosophy at the University of Athens. Other musicians, writers and Άμα λευτερωθεί η Κρήτη When Crete is set free intellectuals that he associated with were Nikos Gatsos, George Seferis, θα λευτερωθεί κι εμένα η καρδιά μου it will be set free as well, my own heart , and the artist . He Άμα λευτερωθεί η Κρήτη When Crete is set free met Mikis Theodorakis with whom he developed a strong friendship. θα γελάσω I will laugh Κυρά μου αμπελιώτισσα, My lady of the wineyards, κυρά μου αφέντρα του κρασιού my lady of wine and happiness, και της χαράς σ’ αφήνω γεια, I abandon you. Που είναι ο Θεός ; -- Where is God? τσιμπούσι έχει ο καπετάν Μιχάλης. Help me Virgin Maria, Ξημέρωσε ο Θεός God dawned, Βοήθα με να βαστάξω Παρθένα μου help me dominate απλώθηκε το φως στον Ψηλορείτη the light spread to Psiloritis φώτισε, τ’ ανήμερο θεριό να ξεθυμάνει, the wild animal inside of me, κι έλαμψε το πληγωμένο κορμί της and shone on the wounded body of γρήγορα να πάω στο σπιτάκι μου. to finally go home. Κρήτης Crete κι η θάλασσα... and the sea ... Nειρεύονταν η Kρασογιώργαινα The wife of Wino George Τα σπίτια καίγονται The houses are burning Nειρεύονταν η Kρασογιώργαινα The wife of Wino George was θρηνούνε οι γυναίκες women mourn γυρίζουν τα παιδιά ορφανεμένα children turn orphaned σεργιάνιζε, λέει, με τον καλό της dreaming σ’ ένα κλειστό περβόλι και κι οι άντρες απροσκύνητοι and the men of her beautiful one, πιάνουν τα διάσελα occupy the mountain passes χαμογελούσε... in a small piece of land, Δεν ήταν ο Kρασογιώργης ο χωρίς ψωμί, χωρίς φυσέκια... with no bread, no guns ... and she was smiling ... χοντρομπαλάς Πού είναι ο Θεός Where is God Wino George wasn't the fat lazy lad παρά ένα λυγερό παλληκάρι... την Κρήτη μας να δει to see our Crete, Στριμμένο αγκάθα το μουστάκι του, but... να την πονέσει! to hurt her! μαλλιά μακριά, κορακάτα, a beautiful young stud, στη ζωνη ασημοπίστολα with a big moustache, κι η αναπνιά του μύριζε κανέλλα... long hair, silver gun Ίδιος, απαράλλακτος ο Aθανάσιος and his breath smelled of cinnamon ... Stefanos Koroneos continues to build a reputation as a Διάκος! It was Athanasios Diakos, himself ! world-class performer. Recent events include Captain Michael (baritone solo) with the Berlin Philharmo nic, The Μεγαλοβδόμαδο, ζύγωσε η Ανάσταση. Easter Week, Resurrection is close. Godson with the Greek National Opera, La Cenerentola Μα δυο μονάχα, δυο άντρες στο But only two, two men (Dandini and Don Magnifico) with New York City Opera, Il Μεγάλο Κάστρο, in the Big Castle, Barbiere di Siviglia (Dr. Bartolo) with New York City ξεστράτισαν απόψε are outside tonight Opera in the Park Series, Fledermaus and Il Barbiere di και δεν έχουν το νου τους στο Θεό. and it not God in their minds. Siviglia with Boheme Opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Dr. Ο ένας την άγια τούτη νύχτα One, in this holy night Bartolo) with Opera New Hampshire and Opera in κρατάει στην αγκαλιά του μια κερκέζα holds in his arms a quiver Williamsburg , Tosca (Il Sagristano) with Palm Beach Opera, Loft Opera , κι ο άλλος ο άλλος αχ βουλιάζει μεσα and the other is sinking Opera New Hampshire and Connecticut Opera, El Gato con Botas (the King) στα μάτια της into her eyes with Gotham Chamber Opera, Sacco e Vanzetti with Opera Tampa and και στέκει ο νούς του σε μια πράσινη and his mind stands on a green door Cassandra with Teatro Grattacielo, Gluck’s Orfee (title role) with the National πόρτα. Municipal Theater Patras in Greece and Leporello with Opera Williamsburg.

Stefanos has performed throughout Italy in Il Viaggio a Reims (Don Alvaro), Βαριά απόψε η νύχτα στο Μεγάλο Heavy is the night in the Big Castle. Madama Butterfly (Sharpless), Isabeau (the King), Rigoletto (Monterone), La Κάστρο. Σηκώθηκε ένας άνεμος ζεστός, ογρός, A warm, breezy, blistering wind rose. Traviata (Barone), Le Nozze di Figaro (the Count), and Un Ballo in Maschera φουσκοδεντρίτης. (Sam) in Teatro Alla Scala , Rossini Opera Festival and Teatro Reggio di Ξεκινούσε απ’ την Αραπιά, σβάρνιζε It was starting from Arabia, swarming Parma . He has performed internationally in La Traviata (Barone) with the τον κάμπο της Μεσσαράς, the plain of Messara, Bolshoi Opera and at the Athens Concert Hall, Le Nozze di Figaro (the Count) καβαλίκευε τα καστρινά μουράγια riding the castrated moorings with Seoul Opera, La Bohème (Alcindoro and Benoit) at Oslo’s Den Nye και έπεφτε πάνω στις γυναίκες σαν and falling on the women like Opera, La Bohème (Schaunard) at Staatstheater Freiburg, and La Forza del άντρας man Destino (Fra Melitone) at Theater Osnabrück and the Verdi Festival in και πάνω στους άντρες σαν γυναίκα. and on the men like woman. Bussetto. Since 2019, Stefanos Koroneos is Artistic Administrator of Teatro Κι ο καπετάν Μιχάλης περίμενε And Captain Michaelis was waiting for Grattacielo in NYC άγρυπνος να ξημερώσει. the sunlight