Eternal Smyrna

Dates

10.09 — 11.09.2022

Description

A proposal that combines the original traditional music of Asia Minor, from the days of joy and prosperity to the days of the uprooting, folk-rebetiko music as it evolved in metropolitan Greece, and contemporary music.

Three different orchestras co-exist onstage, the original traditional orchestra of Smyrna, the Folk-Rebetiko orchestra in the form it acquired in inland Greece, and a Classical Symphony Orchestra performing the Oratorio. The latter will present in its world premiere Christos Samaras’ work Mnimes (Memories).

This musical journey is a sequence and co-habitation of music, poetry, dance, images and performing, composing a complete, ripe, and interdisciplinary performance-concert that illuminates the eternal Asia Minor of Greeks.

Contributors

Presenter: Alexis Kostalas
Composer: Christos Samaras
Oratorio narrator, actor: Giannis Stolas
25-member Symphony Orchestra: Sinfonietta of the International Festival of Karditsa
Traditional Orchestra with Asia Minor instruments: 8-member Orchestra of the International Festival of Karditsa
Text editing, libretto: Serafim Mylonas, Olga Gortzi
Piano: Marios Kazas
Sound, screenings, lighting: Vasilis Tsikrikas
Soprano: Eleni Danai
Traditional singer, qanun: Dimitra Kaliara
Orchestra & chorus training, musical direction, conducting of the Oratorio Mnimes – performance supervision: Nikos Efthymiadis
Filming, video editing: Vasilis Stathis
NPO

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF KARDITSA

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