Land and Sea
The Voice of Oak expresses the fear man feels when he realizes the limited caracter of his own nature and the ephemere of life. Together with the Voice of Oak, the orchestra interprets, for the first time as an autonomous creation, the music Giorgos Kouroupos composed for Odyssey, John Neumeir's ballet, presented in the Athens Concert Hall (1995), in the Hambourg State Opera (1995-96), in the Royal Theater of Copenhague (2002) and in other venues.
Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano
Based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel “The Bride of Lammermoor”
Concertante
With Greek surtitles
Musical preparation: Thanassis Apostolopoulos
Athens State Orchestra
Conductor: Lukas Karytinos
Christmas Concert I
The dynamic Nikos Haliassas will be conducting this year’s Christmas concert, which will feature atmospheric and melodiously tranquil music by German composers. Mellifluous readings from classic German Christmas tales are guaranteed to awaken the spirit of Christmas within us, while Heinrik Albrecht’s highly evocative music breathes new life into Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Academy Concert
The Young Musicians' Academy of the Athens State Orchestra will be bringing its first year in operation to a satisfying close with a celebratory concert in which the young musicians-in-the-making collaborate on equal terms with their professional colleagues, contributing youthful vigour and receiving knowledge and experience in return. Together, under the inspired musical direction of Christopher Poppen, a conductor and educator who is now a familiar face to Athens concertgoers, they also join forces with the talented Evgenia Papadimas on piano.
Free introductory talk for ticket holders
Symphonia Domestica
The Athens State Orchestra presents Richard Strauss’s Symphonia Domestica -a hymn to the family and its simple, everyday life which is anything but simple, musically! The concert starts with a classical and very demanding piece for the violinist Tianwa Yang, Ludvig van Beethoven’s Concert for violin in D Major, Op. 61.
Free introductory talk for ticket holders
Paris
Ravel’s Waltz and Stravinsky’s Firebird (which received its notorious première in Paris) are two of the most alluring works of the early 20th century. The internationally celebrated Japanese conductor, Kimbo Ishii, joins forces with the Athens State Orchestra and the celebrated saxophone soloist, Theodore Kerkezos, to perform two magical French works which reveal the instrument’s full expressive and virtuosic potential.
Free introductory talk for ticket holders
Works for double bass and piano
Two ‘restless’ musicians, Nikos Tsoukalas from Athens State Orchestra and Marianna Tsika, explore the sonic and interpretative potential of a particular combination of instruments: the piano and the double bass, performing a program composed by music of Lowell Liebermann, Zoltan Kodaly and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Free guided tour of the Islamic Museum of Athens, delivered by Mrs Mina Moraiti.
Corfu
Corfu was one of Greece’s outstanding musical centres. Most prominent among its famous sons and daughters, Spyros Samaras wrote operas that won him the admiration of the Italian and the international public as well as the sincere admiration of celebrated fellow composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The performance of his Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle under the baton of Byron Fidetzis, a Greek music specialist, is a fitting tribute to the composer’s memory
With Greek surtitles
19:45: Free introductory talk for ticket holders
Play it Presto, Maestro!
The entire history of the symphony orchestra in just one hour! An on-the-fly refresher course in how the largest and most magnificent musical schema the world has ever seen emerged and developed, both numerically and sonically. Texts and slides cover some 400 years of musical creativity, while extracts from representative works illustrate how the symphonic repertoire shaped the development and composition of the orchestra.
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
Josef Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Schubert
Johannes Brahms
Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky
Gustav Mahler
Richard Strauss
Dmitri Shostakovich
Don Quixote
A forced cancellation prevented the performance of Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote last season, and we are delighted that the work will be performed this season with Gabriel Schwabe and our very own Paris Anastasiadis in the solo roles. Alongside this epic work, the artistic director of the Athens State Orchestra, Stefanos Tsialis, brings his personal touch to Prokofiev’s evergreen Classical symphony and Theodorakis’ summery Feast of Asi-Gonia.
Free introductory talk for ticket holders