August 27, 2023
Start time 21.00
Archaeological site of Elefsina
Free entrance
Duration 160 minutes
“Sleep Persephone in the arms of the earth…”, “in Elefsina once”, for a one and only concert, Maria Farandouri and Manolis Mitsias join their voices, on August 27, and remind us of some of the masterpieces of artistic and popular Greek song by the great composers and great poets: Theodorakis, Hatzidakis, Mikroutsikos, Seferis, Elytis, Ritsos, Gatsos, Anagnostakis and others. Two great artists, stable and consistent in quality singing, appear in one of the most important archaeological sites and perform well-known and beloved songs accompanied by excellent musicians.
The two great artists are prefaced by Mystery 154 Live Music Acts, a chamber music concert with the up-and-coming and promising Eleusinian violinist Emilios Bartzis and the award-winning piano soloist Margaritas Kolasi, produced by the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture. The audience that will be at the Archaeological site of Eleusis that evening will have the opportunity to enjoy the two soloists’ unique performances in a program of classical repertoire with works by J. Brahms and L. V. Beethoven for violin and piano.
With the support of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Western Attica.
Warm thanks: to Christina Merkouri, Director of EF.A.D.A. and to Efstathia Anesti, Archaeologist of the EF.A.D.A., as well as to all the security personnel of the Archaeological site of Elefsina.
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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