1 ATHENS & EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL 2019 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Vangelis Theodoropoulos BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT Petros Stavrianos VICE PRESIDENT Eleftheria Raptou MEMBERS Nikos Erinakis Martha Fosteri George Kouroupos Vassilis Lambrinoudakis Effi Yannopoulou ARTISTIC CO-CURATORS Carolin Hochleichter – International productions Grorgina Kakoudaki – Educational programmes Dimitra Kondylaki – Contemporary Greek theatre Costa Pilavachi – Music Steriani Tsintziloni – Dance 2 Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2019 EPIDAURUS ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS Robert Wilson, Oedipus Greek National Opera – Carlus Padrissa – La Fura dels Baus – Georgios Ballatsinos, Norma NATIONAL THATRE OF GREECE by Bellini Oresteia by Aeschylus Io Voulgaraki, Agamemnon Eleni Karaindrou, Tous des oiseaux Lilly Meleme, The Libation Bearers Georgia Mavragani, The Eumenides Jethro Tull, 50 years of Jethro Tull NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg – CYPRUS THEATRE ORGANISATION Yuja Wang – Gustavo Gimeno Stathis Livathinos, The Suppliants by Euripides George Dalaras – İzmir State Symphony Orchestra Κ. Markoulakis, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles – Hakan Sensoy NATIONAL THEATRE OF NORTHERN GREECE ERT National Symphony Orchestrra – Anastasios Yannis Kalavrianos, Symeonidis, Fête de la musique Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides Wiener Symphoniker – Leonidas Kavakos COMÉDIE-FRANÇAISE Ivo van Hove, Electra / Orestes by Euripides Athens State Orchestra A Tribute to Steven Spielberg Dimitris Karantzas, The Clouds by Aristophanes Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra - Zoi Stavros Tsakiris, Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus Tsokanou - Murray Perahia Loreena McKennitt, The elf of Celtic sound LITTLE THEATRE OF ANCIENT EPIDAURUS Yannis Markopoulos O Yo-Yo Ma – The 6 Unaccompanied Cello Suites 9 ATHENS OPEN AIR FILM FESTIVAL by Johann Sebastian Bach Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker – Jean-Guihen ALTERNATIVE STAGE – GREEK NATIONAL OPERA Queyras / Rosas, Mitten wir im Leben Kassandra by Iannis Xenakis sind/Bach6Cellosuiten Anaparastasis Ι: The Baritone by Jani Christou Directed by Alexandros Efklidis Dead Can Dance, Dionysus E. Lygizos, The Day Will Come… G. Koumentakis Armonia Atenea - Friends of Music Orchestra – Sofia Paschou, Theogony by Hesiod M. Papathanasiou – G. Petrou, Alcina by Händel Ioanna Portolou – Griffón Dance Company, Kaos Ravenna Festival –Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra – Riccardo Muti, Concert of Friendship Dimitris Bogdanos, Daphnis + Chloe by Longus Maria Farantouri – ERT Contemporary Music Efi Theodorou, Phèdre by Racine Orchestra – Anastasios Symeonidis, Shall We Go to the Movies? Natasha Triantafylli, Le Danaidi by Andreas Kalvos Tindersticks 3 Athens State Orchestra – Maxim Vengerov – Mapa Teatro, Los Incontados Stefanos Tsialis Thom Luz, Girl from the Fog Machine Factory Greek National Opera – Konstantinos Rigos – Loukas Karytinos, La Traviata by Verdi Caroline Guilea Nguyen, SAIGON China National Symphony Orchestra – Austrian Susanne Kennedy, The Virgin Suicides Salzburg Children’s Choir – Enjott Schneider – Otto Sauter – Ten of the Best, Ceremony of Romeo Castelluci, La Vita Nuova Harmony AT THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL PEIRAIOS 260 Robert Lepage, Kanata – Episode 1 – La Controverse CONTEMPORARY GREEK THEATRE DANCE New perspectives on Greek identity Kostas Tsioukas, Giselle Thanos Samaras, Chrysippus by Dimitris Dimitriadis Androniki Marathaki, It’s not about if you will love me tomorrow_Part 2 Giorgos Papageorgiou, Giannoula Koulourou Omar Rajeh – Maqamat, #minaret Vasso Kamaratou – Kostas Koutsolelos, Summer Swimming arisandmartha, Lucy. tutorial for a ritual Manos Karatzogiannis, Strange Doors Marco da Silva Ferreira, Brother by Manos Eleftheriou National School of Dance Splendid Fusions En dynamei – Eleni Efthymiou, Horse in Love A Day Full of Dancing European repertoire Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto C. for Circus, Metamorphoses by Ovid Hofesh Schechter, Wolf Johan Inger, BLISS Elena Karakouli, Himmelweg by Juan Mayorga Boris Charmatz – Terrain, infini Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou, Against Freedom by Esteve Soler AT THE ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS The Little Things Orchestra – Christos Theodoridis, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker – Jean-Guihen The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Queyras / Rosas, Mitten wir im Leben Shakespeare sind/Bach6Cellosuiten Symposium INSTALLATION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE HELLENIC ASSOCIATION OF THEATRE AND PERFORMING ARTS Bouchra Khalili, The Tempest Society CRITICS Critics, theatre and the new market: Anatomizing Candice Breitz, Love story (video installation) an uncertain relationship COURTYARD INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTIONS Angélica Liddell, Genesis 6, 6-7 9TH ATHENS OPEN AIR FILM FESTIVAL nora chipaumire, #PUNK 4 Peter Greenaway, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover For children DANCE Mark Hadjipateras, Building Ηope PEDION AREOS Compagnie Pernette, Bal Pernette Educational workshop at the Peiraios 260 courtyard Also featuring Polkar In collaboration with the Museum of Cycladic Art Aterballetto, In/Finito Over the rainbow – Dora Androulidaki, Elena Antoniou, In situ Drag Queen Story Hour_ Athens Chapter National Dance of School – MUSEUM OF GREEK CHILDREN’S ART Ioannis Mandafounis Exhibition featuring children’s art at Peiraios 260 Workshops held at the Museum (Kodrou 9) Stereo Nero Dance Co., Sound Passions OPENING TO THE CITY - ATHENS MUSIC NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS Thodoris Economou, Breath - solo piano THEATRE ATHENS CONSERVATOIRE Poetry & Literature in the City Υoung Greek Classics 2019, A tribute to cello – 6 cellists OUTDOOR CINEMAS Thanassis Chalkias, She Was Moved by Movies by Hernán Rivera Letelier CINEMA IN COLLABORATION WITH THE GREEK FILM ARCHIVE KAISARIANI LAIS OPEN AIR CINEMA Zoi Xanthopoulou, Marios Hakkas: No retouches, Joseph Hepp, The Adventures of Villar please. I want reality Robert Siodmak et al. People on Sunday Stelios Tatasopoulos, Social Decay KERAMEIKOS Lotus eaters – Panos Delinikopoulos, Amica mea WALKS - TOURS Platform: Diversity KETHEA / KETHEA DIAVASI CULTURAL Ilias Poulos, We Are Looked at by What We CLUB Overlook Stories from a parallel reality LAIS OPEN AIR CINEMA, AMOQA, BEAVER Elliniki Etairia – Society for Environment and Aphrodite* Cultural Heritage Site of Memory SIX D.O.G.S Vera Lardi – Alexandra Vassiliou, Shedia, Invisible Tours A New Era (?) TH The Stones Speak 15 KYPSELI HIGH SCHOOL In collaboration with the Athens – Attica and Pantelis Flatsousis, Kypseli - New Kids on the Block Argosaronic Hotel Association 5 VISUAL ARTS MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART (Neofytou Douka 4) Exhibition Picasso and Antiquity. Line and Clay OPENING TO THE CITY – PIRAEUS A PIRAEUS MUNICIPAL THEATRE COLLABORATION Humankinds 7 day, 7 Biblical texts, 7 human territories MARGARITA - SPECIAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP – SCHOOL FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN OF PIRAEUS Andrea Kalisoglou, Life SHEDIA STREET PAPER – CLUB FOR UNESCO OF PIRAEUS AND ISLANDS – KO. D. E. P. Peris Michailidis, Coeval: Anna Danezi – Konstantina Visviropoulou, Loneliness MOBILE DENTAL CARE UNITS IN PIRAEUS Maria Koulouri – Lefteris Papakostas, Food PYXIDA MENTAL INSTITUTION Christos Chrysopoulos – Danae Papoutsi Help THE GOOD SHEPHERD BOARDING SCHOOL Maria Rentifi – Piraeus Society – Piraeus Music School, Joy KOKKINIA SOCIAL HOUSING Kalliopi Panagiotidou – Marina Kanelopoulou, Patience CHATZIKIRIAKEIO FOUNDATION OF CHILD SUPPORT Gerasimos Destounis – Vilma Andrioti, Love AT THE PIRAEUS MUNICIPAL THEATRE Event presentation day Exhibition: “The Birds” 6 ODEON OF HERODES ATTICUS 5, 7, 9, 11 June Greek National Opera – Carlus Padrissa – La Fura dels Baus – Georgios Balatsinos Norma by Vincenzo Bellini Norma returns to the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in an ambitious Greek National Opera production, directed by Carlus Padrissa and the one-of-a-kind La Fura dels Baus. The famous Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio reprises the demanding title role, having recently portrayed Norma at the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in Munich. The creative, restless Spanish group, always eager for experimentation, will present their own take on Norma, drawing inspiration from poetic melodies, including Bellini’s well-known “Casta diva” aria. Conductor Georgios Balatsinos • Directing - Set design Carlus Padrissa – La Fura dels Baus • Costume design Chu Uroz • Performers Carmen Giannattasio, Cellia Costea, Arnold Rutkowski, Tassos Apostolou et al. With the Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists of the Greek National Opera 14 June Eleni Karaindrou Tous des oiseaux On June 14, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus will brim with colours and melodies composed by the major Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou. Thirty-one years after her first, iconic concert at the Odeon in 1988, Karaindrou will deliver a spellbinding concert in two parts. In the first part, audiences will enjoy Karaindrou’s latest works from the ECM New Series album Tous des oiseaux, which has met with international success. The album, featuring a cover by the acclaimed artist Christos Bokoros, includes two pieces, the music for the performance Tous des oiseaux, written and directed by Wajdi Mouawad, 7 artistic director of the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris, and the music for the Iranian filmmaker Payman Maadi’s film Bomb, A Love Story, which was nominated at the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The second part will feature some of Karaindrou’s most memorable works from her collaborations with Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonia Marketaki, Margarethe von Trotta, Christoforos Christofis, Jules Dassin and Antonis Antypas. Eleni Karaindrou herself will play the piano, joined by extraordinary veteran