From the darkness into the light

Concert for the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
In collaboration with 18 ANO

Wed. 26 June 2013 21:00

Plato's Academy

The Athens State Orchestra joins forces with 18ANO, the drug addiction unit of the Athens Psychiatric Hospital, for the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in a concert symbolically entitled “From the darkness into the light”. Two classical masterpieces –Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and Mozart’s magnificent Jupiter Symphony, his forty-first and last-bookend Giovanni Bottesini’s Concerto for Double Bass, in which Angelos Repapis, our Orchestra’s lead double bassist, plays the solo part. The concert will be conducted by Vassilis Christopoulos.

Event Programme

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

(1770–1827)

Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

(1756–1791)

Symphony No.41 in C major, KV551 “Jupiter”

GIOVANNI BOTTESINI

(1821-1889)

Concerto for double-bass and orchestra

Event Programme

Featuring

CONDUCTOR

Vassilis Christopoulos

SOLOIST

Angelos Repapis, double bass

Featuring

CONDUCTOR

Vassilis Christopoulos

SOLOIST

Angelos Repapis, double bass

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