Sunday morning at the Megaron - Get to know the orchestra!
With two famous works presenting to children the instruments and the magical world of the Orchestra, the Athens Concert Hall welcomes this year pupils of the elementary and high schools, in a special concert with the Athens State Orchestra.
With the Orchestra’s and the conductor Vladimiros Symeonidis’s assistance, our young friends get to know the tonic timbres and the abilities of all the instrument groups of a symphonic orchestra, but also learn that you cannot become a hero, unless you take a risk!
With the Orchestra’s and the conductor Vladimiros Symeonidis’s assistance, our young friends get to know the tonic timbres and the abilities of all the instrument groups of a symphonic orchestra, but also learn that you cannot become a hero, unless you take a risk!
Musical promenades at the Museums II - Music for violin and viola
The siblings Laertis and Enkela Kokolani, colleagues at the Athens State Orchestra, explore in common the repertoire for violin and viola, interpreting a variety of pieces, expanding from the 17th (Mozart) to the 20th century (Martinu and Villa-Lobos).
19:30 Free guided tour at the Museum
Musical promenades at the Museums I - “Aenaon” String Quartet
This year too, the third one in a row, the chamber music concerts with ensembles of the Athens State Orchestra will be hosted in eminent museums of our city. Naturally, the first stop of this tour in music and museums will be the Acropolis Museum, where the “Aenaon” String Quartet will interpret a particularly interesting program emphasizing on the element of lyrism.
Leonidas Kavakos with the Athens State Orchestra - concert in Patras
The establishment of a very wide and long-lasting cooperation and Leonidas Kavakos’s return on the podium of the Athens State Orchestra for four concerts during the current artistic period, three of which will actually take place outside Athens, couldn’t be but a quite significant artistic event. Our recent experience from the collaboration of the Orchestra with the internationally glowing Greek musician already proved that Kavakos, also as conductor, achieves this mysterious, unutterable, always interactive and honest communication with the audience as well as among the musicians and with High Art. Kavakos’s unselfish offer, partially granted for the needs of the Athens State Orchestra in purchase of instruments and partially for charity causes, turns him furthermore, during hard times, in one of the Orchestra’s most precious allies.
Leonidas Kavakos with the Athens State Orchestra - concert in Agrinio
The establishment of a very wide and long-lasting cooperation and Leonidas Kavakos’s return on the podium of the Athens State Orchestra for four concerts during the current artistic period, three of which will actually take place outside Athens, couldn’t be but a quite significant artistic event. Our recent experience from the collaboration of the Orchestra with the internationally glowing Greek musician already proved that Kavakos, also as conductor, achieves this mysterious, unutterable, always interactive and honest communication with the audience as well as among the musicians and with High Art. Kavakos’s unselfish offer, partially granted for the needs of the Athens State Orchestra in purchase of instruments and partially for charity causes, turns him furthermore, during hard times, in one of the Orchestra’s most precious allies.
Leonidas Kavakos with the Athens State Orchestra - concert in Thessaloniki
The establishment of a very wide and long-lasting cooperation and Leonidas Kavakos’s return on the podium of the Athens State Orchestra for four concerts during the current artistic period, three of which will actually take place outside Athens, couldn’t be but a quite significant artistic event. Our recent experience from the collaboration of the Orchestra with the internationally glowing Greek musician already proved that Kavakos, also as conductor, achieves this mysterious, unutterable, always interactive and honest communication with the audience as well as among the musicians and with High Art. Kavakos’s unselfish offer, partially granted for the needs of the Athens State Orchestra in purchase of instruments and partially for charity causes, turns him furthermore, during hard times, in one of the Orchestra’s most precious allies.
Leonidas Kavakos with the Athens State Orchestra - concert in Athens
The establishment of a very wide and long-lasting cooperation and Leonidas Kavakos’s return on the podium of the Athens State Orchestra for four concerts during the current artistic period, three of which will actually take place outside Athens, couldn’t be but a quite significant artistic event. Our recent experience from the collaboration of the Orchestra with the internationally glowing Greek musician already proved that Kavakos, also as conductor, achieves this mysterious, unutterable, always interactive and honest communication with the audience as well as among the musicians and with High Art. Kavakos’s unselfish offer, partially granted for the needs of the Athens State Orchestra in purchase of instruments and partially for charity causes, turns him furthermore, during hard times, in one of the Orchestra’s most precious allies.
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Challenges
The dynamic Chinese violin soloist Tianwa Jang and the acknowledged Slovenian conductor Uroš Lajovic, have repeatedly fascinated the Athenian audience with their high artistic performances. In their new collaboration with the Athens State Orchestra, they deal with meaningful and way demanding pieces of Bartok and Brams. In the beginning of the concert, the adorers of the modern creation will enjoy the imaginative work of a talented and rising composer from Hong Kong
19:45 Free introductory speech for ticket holders
Angela Gheorghiu and Mario Frangoulis - My world
The event that marks the end of summer, the best way to welcome fall: The internationally acknowledged tenor Mario Frangoulis and the diva of the classic song, soprano Angela Gheorghiu, share their love for classic song, but also their aptitude to create magnificent interpretations that unite all kinds of music, under the direction of Eugene Kohn, one of the most important conductors of the world.
Together they will guide us in a magic world, made up of beloved arias and famous duets, but also songs from the album “My world”, recorded by the legendary soprano, offering the audience a musical experience that will be discussed and remembered for years. Their guest, in surprise appearance which will fascinate the Athenian audience, will be, coming directly from Budapest, the virtuoso violinist Zoltàn Màga.
Arias, duets and fragments from operas by Gioachino Rossini, Georges Bizet, Francesco Cilea, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti, Jules Massenet.
Songs and fragments from musicals by Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Leonard Bernstein, John Williams, Frederic Low, Jerome Kern, Cowl Porter
Songs by Manos Hatzidakis, Ernesto Lecuona, Stanislao Gastaldon, Eduardo di Capua
Friendly appearance: Zoltàn Màga
La Diva - 40 years, Tribute to Maria Callas
To the absolute interpreter of all eras, Maria Callas, is dedicated the Opera Gala “La Diva: 40 years”, which is held with the glamorous participation of the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater, Dinara Alieva, under the musical direction of Miltos Logiades. The Gala, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the passing of the great Greek soprano (1923-1977) and the proclamation by the Ministry of Culture of 2017 as “Maria Callas year”, is a co-production of the Athens Concert Hall and the Athens State Orchestra in collaboration with the International Cultural Center "Athenaeum". The entire first part of the Gala is a tribute to the greatest representative of the Italian Romanticism, Giuseppe Verdi, while in the second part of the concert, the audience will enjoy beloved arias composed by the two most representative compositors of the veristic school, Francesco Cilea and Giacomo Puccini.
Arias and orchestral fragments of operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Cilea, Pietro Mascagni, Giacomo Puccini