Giorgos Kouroupos: Elytis’s Monogram

30 years since the death of Odysseas Elytis

Fri. 24 October 2025 20:30

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Christos Lambrakis Hall

There may be millions of poems inspired by love all over the world, but for many of us, Odysseas Elytis's Monogram is the absolute praise to Love, a work of unrepeatable strength, essence and beauty. It is extremely difficult -if not impossible- to set such a great, therefore aesthetically and conceptually self- sufficient poetry to Music, as its ideal complement. If one Greek composer could possibly attempt and achieve such an "unfeasible" thing, this would indisputably be Giorgos Kouroupos, the composer capable of listening to and expressing with a unique sincerity all aspects of Elytis's complex poetic language through a music balancing smoothly between lyrical and modern. Without exaggeration, the "Monogram" is a monument of modern literary Greek production, worth to enjoy, especially when performed by select lyric singers and our music life's respectful father, Byron Fidetzis.

Event Programme

GIORGOS KOUROUPOS
(b.1942)
The Monogram, scenic cantata based on Odysseas Elytis’s poetry

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Christos Lambrakis Hall

Ticket price: 25€, 20€, 15€ and 8€ (concessions)

19:30 Free introductory speech for ticket holders

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