OPERA AT THE CONCERT HALL

SPYROS SAMARAS: CRETAN GIRL

TCH - NATIONAL OPERA - SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF THESSALONIKI

 


Comic melodrama in three acts
Libretto by Nikolaos Laskaris and Polyvios Dimitrakopoulos
In the program of its first production the Cretan girl is referred to as a comic melodrama; there is no indication though concerning the genre on the composer's manuscript. Although the plot is set on Crete during the Venetian rule (1211-1715), the inspiration for the work came probabley from the Cretan revolutions against the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th century, the foundation of the Cretan State (1896-1913) and finally the unification of Crete with Greece after the Balkan Wars of 1912/3. Central figure of the plot is Areti, the Cretan girl. She tries to gain priviliges for her compaltriots from the Venetian Duke of Crete, who is in love with her. Around this basic plot a number of comical sentmental stories unfolds, which lead the opera to a happy ending

 

ARTISTS

Ilias Voudouris Conductor
Petros Zoulias Director
Anastasia Arseni Sets & Costumes
Spyros Tzoras Lightings
Fotis Diamandopoulos Choreographer
Katerina Petsatodi Assistant Director
Nikos Vassiliou Choir Director
Agathangelos Georgakatos Choir Director
Gogo Iliopoulou Areti
Sofia Kyanidou Contessa
Dionisis Tsandinis Duke
Alexandra Mattheoudaki Dutchess
Yiannis Christopoulos Paul
Dimitris Nalbantis Michael
Kostis Rasidakis Joker
Pavlos Maropoulos Don Platsido
Thessaloniki City Symphony Orchestra

Choir and Soloists of the National Opera

TICKET PRICES

50€, 35€, 25€, 15€, 10€ (students)

Program with financial support from

OPAP
  • 22 November 2012 to 25 November 2012
    Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun     21:00  (FRIENDS OF MUSIC HALL M1)
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