2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture and the Aeschylia Festival present Mystery 113 A CELEBRATION TO CHANGE THE WORLD by the oper(o) troupe, on 15 September on Nikolaidou Pedestrian Street. A musical walking performance dreaming of changing the world, with 26 musicians, singers, dancers and actors.
Artistic Director: Erifili Giannakopoulou
Director: Irene Georgalaki & Erifili Giannakopoulou
Original Music: Fanis Zachopoulos – Dimitris Tasainas
Sound design: Brian Coon
Texts: Nefeli Maistrali
Choreography: Katerina Foti
Art Direction – Set Design: Katerina Charou
Executive production: The oper(o) troupe
Musicians: Konstantinos Aslanidis (Tuba), Stefanos Dafnis (Trumpet), Stelios Michas Egglezos (Trombone), Foivos Galanis (Trumpet), Raphael Meleteas (Percussion), Giannis Papadoulis (Percussion)
Singers: Eleni Boukli, Eva Galogavrou, Kallia Gerakianaki, Giorgos Nikopoulos, Dimitris Tasainas, Fanis Zachopoulos, Nikos Ziaziaris
Dancers: Eleftheria Agapaki, Elina Demirtzioglou, Eleftheria Iliopoulou, Christiana Katsimpraki, Maritina Katsimpraki, Stella Pagiati, Christiana Matelska Toka, Sevasti Zafeira
Date: Friday, September 15
Arrival time: 19:15
Starting point: Heroes’ Square (beginning of Nikolaidou Pedestrian Walk)
Duration: 60 minutes
The entrance is free
A production by 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture
In the framework of the Aeschylia Festival
On 15 September – the date when, according to historical documents, the first act of the Eleusinian Mysteries each year began – a great celebration comes to the city, to cry out the profound need for freedom and rebirth. An eclectic band of artists, strange creatures, prepare a ceremony to change the world. From the Iroon Square, the starting point of their route, until the parking space of the Elefsina Old Oil Mill Factory, where their journey will culminate, they produce an explosion that is personal, emotional and desperate. Collective and frightening. They demand, they shout, they kiss, they dance, they fall in love, they dance incessantly, they take a stand. They demand. They build and destroy. They parade and ask the people to follow them. To become a part of the celebration. And, along the way, become part of the change.
Mystery 113 A CELEBRATION TO CHANGE THE WORLD is an explosion for change, in defence of poetry, love and art. An explosion packed with freedom, bursting with oxygen.
A few words about the oper(o) troupe
The oper(o) troupe was created in Athens in 2008 by Erifili Giannakopoulou. It features a core of distinguished young artists from a variety of fields (directors, visual artists, musicians and composers, choreographers, sound designers). It is one of the first independent groups in Greece involved in opera and lyrical theatre. Seeking out a new contemporary idiom, they view opera as a multimedia platform where all forms of art can coexist. Their aim is to create modern performances and theatre experiences that redefine the role of opera and art in contemporary society.
Further Info
2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture is setting up a three-day celebration to say goodbye to the Belgian collective TimeCircus that returns to Antwerp after six months and to hand over – now officially – ARKOPOLIS, the ark of eternal youth, this unique cultural space to young people and to the residents of Elefsina.
2023 Εleusis European Capital of Culture presents from the 4th until the 7th of October, for the first time together, the artistic projects of the trilogy Mystery 13 I_LEFT, conceived and directed by Yolanda Markopoulou, completing a multi-year long artistic research, focused on refugee, uprooting and starting over at a new place.
Mystery 42 Futuring Waters’ exhibition and parallel events introduces us to the artworks created through a process of co-authorship initiated by the artist and educator Jenny Marketou with the help of Greek and international scientists, artists, curators, architects, archaeologists and activists among others around water rights and hydropolitics, a complex political thought around water.
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