Singing Lessons – Mr. Angelos

Singing Lessons with Mr. Angelos is a music-theatre production with a strong visual identity, featuring an original text, direction and dramaturgy by Thanassis Sarantos. The performance draws inspiration from the life and work of Angelos Papadimitriou, one of Greece’s most distinctive visual artists and performers.

Blending theatre, live music, song and a stage world inspired by Papadimitriou’s unique artistic language, the performance explores the relationship between art and memory, beauty and loss, desire, and the profound human need to create.

Papadimitriou’s porcelain works, handmade constructions, visual imagery, songs and personal memories are transformed into theatrical material, creating a poetic universe where lyricism blends with humour, tenderness coexists with loss, and art becomes an act of resistance against time and decay.

Live music is performed on stage by Alexandros Avdeliodis, featuring works by Attik, Kostas Giannidis, Giorgos Mitsakis, Kapnisis, Kurt Weill and other distinguished composers.

The performance also features actor Paris Skartsolias, who serves as both the dramatic counterpart and apprentice of Mr. Angelos, guiding the audience through a journey where myth, memory and contemporary reality become inseparable.

SYNOPSIS

A thirty-year-old unemployed actor, now working as a tour guide in Delphi, encounters a mysterious Apollonian persona inspired by the life and artistic legacy of Angelos Papadimitriou.

Through songs, memories, humour and intimate confessions, the two men embark on an unexpected journey of self-discovery, crossing the fragile boundaries between reality and imagination, theatre and memory.

As their relationship deepens, the young man begins searching for his own Apollo: his lost creative voice, the courage to reclaim his artistic identity, and the performer he once dreamed of becoming.

Mr. Angelos, armed with humour, generosity and the wisdom of an artist who has transformed life into art, reveals that creation is not a luxury but a necessity—a way of transforming loss, fear and vulnerability into life itself.

Singing Lessons with Mr. Angelos is a music-theatre performance about the transformative power of art, the encounter between two generations, and the enduring secret that enables human beings to continue creating, loving and dreaming.

ABOUT THE STORY

Paris, a thirty-year-old unemployed actor working as a tour guide at the archaeological site of Delphi, spends his days introducing visitors to the myths, prophecies and stories of the ancient world. He knows the lives of heroes and gods by heart, yet struggles to find meaning in his own.

His encounter with Mr. Angelos, a mysterious Apollonian persona inspired by the life, work and spirit of Angelos Papadimitriou, leads him on an unexpected journey of self-discovery.

Through songs, humour, confessions and moments of profound tenderness, the two men share stories, fears and dreams while travelling through a world where reality merges with memory, theatre and imagination.

Gradually, Paris begins searching for his own Apollo: his personal ideal, his lost creativity and the courage to reconnect with the artist he once hoped to become.

With humour, compassion and poetic wisdom, Mr. Angelos reveals that artistic creation is not a privilege but an essential human need—the ability to transform sorrow, fear and personal wounds into beauty and life.

Set within the extraordinary landscape of the Roman Agora of Delphi, the performance invites audiences to experience an encounter between antiquity and contemporary Greece, between myth and autobiography, and between memory and artistic creation.