2023 06 17 Honouring Maria Callas – The Athens State Orchestra with the Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra of Heraklion’s Municipality, concert in Rethymnon
100 years from Maria Callas’s birth
Concert within the events of Crete Festival
In collaboration with the Region of Crete
With the support of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Rethymnon
Sat. 17 June 2023 20:30
Fortezza fortress of Rethymnon, Crete
The Athens State Orchestra returns to Crete to participate in the Festival of Crete for the second year running. The Festival is organised by the Region of Crete. This is the Year of Maria Callas, and the Athens State Orchestra will be joining forces with its young colleagues from the Municipality of Heraklion's Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra to perform an opera gala under the baton of Miltos Logiadis to mark the centenary of the birth of La Divina, Greece's gift to the world. The soprano Vassiliki Karayanni and tenor Dimitris Paksoglou will perform arias and duetti from some of the most famous operas in the international repertoire.
Event Programme
GEORGES BIZET
1838–1875
Prelude from Carmen
PIETRO MASCAGNI
(1863–1945)
Intermezzo from the opera «Cavalleria Rusticana»
GIACOMO PUCCINI
(1858-1924)
E lucevan le stelle, aria from Tosca
Mercé, dillette amiche, from "I Vespri Siciliani"
EDUARDO DI CAPUA
(1865-1917)
O sole mio, canzonetta napolitana
GIACOMO PUCCINI
(1858-1924)
Recondita armonia, aria from Tosca
O mio babbino caro, aria from Gianni Schicchi
JULES MASSENET
(1842–1912)
"Pourquoi me réveiller", aria from Werther
GIUSEPPE VERDI
(1813-1901)
Prelude from Traviata
Un di felice, dueto from Traviata
VINCENZO BELLINI
(1801—1835)
Casta Diva, Norma's aria from the 1st act of Norma
GIUSEPPE VERDI
(1813-1901)
È il sol dell'anima, dueto from Rigoletto
Event Programme
Featuring
CONDUCTOR
Miltos Logiadis
SOLOISTS
Vassiliki Karagianni, soprano
Dimitris Paksoglou, tenor
