2023 06 18 Honouring Maria Callas – The Athens State Orchestra with the Cretan Youth Symphony Orchestra of Heraklion’s Municipality, concert in Chania

100 years from Maria Callas’s birth
Concert within the events of Crete Festival
In collaboration with the Region of Crete
In collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Chania

Sun. 18 June 2023 20:30

Archaeological Museum of Chania

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

Featuring

CONDUCTOR

Miltos Logiadis

SOLOIST

Vassiliki Karagianni, soprano

Dimitris Paksoglou, tenor

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Fri. 10 October 2025, 20:30

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Christos Lambrakis Hall

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More than half a quartet

Wed. 15 October 2025, 19:00

Elyti's house, Plaka

Chamber Music Concerts

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Mon. 20 October 2025, 19:00

Technopolis City of Athens

Symphonic Concerts

Giorgos Kouroupos: Elytis’s Monogram

Fri. 24 October 2025, 20:30

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Christos Lambrakis Hall