GREEK OPERA FESTIVAL 2016

Under the auspices of the Region of Central Macedonia

and the Club for UNESCO of Piraeus & Islands

PROMETHEUS BOUND by Aeschylus

Music by PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS

Directed by VASSILIS ASIMAKOPOULOS

Friday, September 30, 2016, 8pm

Ancient Roman Agora Theatre

Skull of Yorick Productions, Thessaloniki

Prometheus: Vassilis Asimakopoulos, bass

Io: Irene Konsta, soprano

Oceanid / Hera: Vanessa Kalkanis, soprano

Violence /Athena: Kassandra Dimopoulou, mezzo

Ocean / Hermes: Philip Modinos, tenor

Amfitrite: Katerina Makri, soprano

Orchestra Skull of Yorick Productions

under the direction of Eleftherios Kalkanis

Aeschylus' masterpiece “Prometheus Bound” in opera:

The lyric tragedy "Prometheus Bound" is the first Greek popular opera presented internationally and always with great success in areas such as the Sorbonne, Place des Arts in Canada, Epidaurus, UN, getting rave reviews.

The opera is based on the tragedy of Aeschylus 'Prometheus Bound' translated by Gryparis, and presented with costumes in a theatrical form.

Prometheus was presented in Montreal, Canada in 1994 and performed intermittently in French until 2000. In 2008 moved to New York and Washington under the direction of maestro Grant Gilman. In Greece Prometheus ascended at the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus, Theatre of Ancient Messene, Ancient Agora, National Archaeological Museum, Theatre Veakeio, International Petra Festival, Theatre Saras Markopoulo, in the Municipal Theatres Cholargos, Corinth, Halkida, Argostoli, Ithaka, Zakynthos, in Peristeri Park, at the Hall of Society of Greek Writers, Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Evripidio Theatre of Salamis Island, Theatre "Jenny Karezi", Tsagarada Pelion, etc.

With the patronage of UNESCO was presented in March 2014 in New York City in Queens Auditorium and the UN starring Vassilis Asimakopoulos representing Greece at the UN, and in the Amphitheater Richelieu of the Sorbonne in Paris, presented by Ioannis Maronitis, President of the Club for UNESCO Piraeus & Islands and Member of the Executive Council of the World Federation Clubs, Associations & UNESCO Centres (WFUCA) for Europe and North America.

Under the direction of conductor Eleftherios Kalkanis presented at the Third Programme of Greek National Radio-Television ERT, the Concert Hall of Literary Society "Parnassos", and in the Old Parliament House of Greece.

The opera "Prometheus Bound" Panagiotis Karousos has created a unique story in Greek opera. For the first time a Greek opera itself becomes popular. The work expresses the voice of the popular fighter giving hope and courage in the social and moral decadence. The rebel Prometheus brings the fire of knowledge, and the universal message of resistance against all sorts of tyrannical powers. In today's violent and turbulent era hero Prometheus brings a message of hope. Not only the high lyricism of Aeschylus and the symbolism of Prometheus the Titan touched both the world, but is the inspired music creation of Panagiotis Karousos that awakening primordial feelings unseen to listeners.

The kind of opera has global reach and visibility and is not kind of fun but instructive, uplifting spiritual and mental progress, the work is a great contribution to the culture of humanity, as an achievement of the human mind, with deep roots in ancient Greek tragedy.