BALLET AT THE CONCERT HALL

GREEK NATIONAL OPERA BALLET - KONSTANTINOS RIGOS: SWAN LAKE

TCH - GREEK NATIONAL OPERA - THESSALONIKI STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Ballet in 4 acts. Music Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky. Choreography Konstantinos Rigos
 
The great success of the Greek National Opera's Ballet, after the sold-out run of the previous season in Athens, returns for three performances at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall. Konstantinos Rigos, in his first choreography after assuming the directorship of the GNO Ballet, created a new reading of Swan Lake, in which excerpts from Petipa / Ivanov's classical choreography engage in a dialogue with his own new choreography.
Rigos transferred the work to the landscape of a dried lake with clear signs of environmental destruction, proposing a metaclassical reading. George Segredakis' impressive costumes and Christos Tziogkas' emotive lighting contribute to the creation of an otherworldly ambience. Konstantinos Rigos notes: «In Swan Lake I present a version which flirts with the enchantment of classical dance in a modern and neoclassicaly interesting way [...] Heroes preserve the characteristics of the classical version, but their roles are presented as projections of the prince himself. I see the roles of the white and black swan as the two sides of one and the same person. The innocence and the need for self-destruction hidden in every man. Human existence is attracted by both the good and the evil. I think this is an ingenious feature of this work and one of the elements I want to bring out. Namely, how the two aspects of the human existence, the good and the evil, are presented”.

ARTISTS

Music Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Choreography, Direction, Sets Konstantinos Rigos
with references to the choreographies of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Original Composition Thodoris Regklis
Dramaturgy Consultant Alexandros Efklidis
Costumes George Segredakis
Lighting Christos Tziogkas
Associate Architect Mary Tsagari
 
Greek National Opera Ballet
 
Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Elias Voudouris

TICKET PRICES

40€, 30€, 25€, 12€ (reduced)

  • 04 October 2019 to 06 October 2019
    Fri|Sat|Sun     21:00  (FRIENDS OF MUSIC HALL M1)
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