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PRESENTATION

Stavros Niarchos Hall
Concerts

The Martlet's Tale / Sweet Movie

Manos Hadjidakis
  • 01, 02 Mar 2019

Greek National Opera - Stavros Niarchos Hall
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Manos Hadjidakis Cycle

Starts at: 20.00 | clock

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Two great movie suites by Manos Hadjidakis will be presented at the Greek National Opera Stavros Niarchos Hall in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on 1 and 2 March 2019, as part of the Manos Hadjidakis Cycle.

The first work to be presented is the unreleasedTheMartlet's Tale. It is the soundtrack of the 1970 movie of the same title directed by John Crowther and scripted by Nicolas Delbano. he movie, starring Katina Paxinou, received bad reviews when it was first previewed in San Francisco and it was not released anywhere in the world. The most famous song from that soundtrack is The ballad of senses and illusions with lyrics by Shawn Phillips, which became known to the Greek audience quite later from its version in the albumPornography(1982). Manos Hadjidakis's assistant to this composition was a then young Italian composer, the now famous Nicola Piovani.

The second work is the masterfulSweet Moviefrom the soundtrack of Dusan Makavejev's movie of the same title, produced in 1974. Hadjidakis was enthused over the director's previous movie and thus, gladly accepted Makavejev's proposal. In the prologue Manos Hadjidakis wrote for the screening of the movie at Cine Asty in 1974, he mentioned, among other things, regarding the movie and his music: Makavejev himself used to say, that one should watchSweet Movietogether with their girlfriend. Never alone. And at some moments, like the sweet moments of a concert by Rachmaninov or Gershwin, they should touch each other's hands, with tenderness and a secret quiver. It is then, he says, that his movie works properly. So, try to take from my music too, all the sweet and sugary taste encompassed in the movie, along with the Chinese-acupuncture-like stings of its imaginative scenes.

CONDUCTOR
Lukas Karytinos

ARTISTIC SUPERVISOR
George Hadjidakis

LIGHTING SUPERVISOR
Dimitris Koutas

SOUND DESIGN
Zacharias Stamoulos

CHILDREN'S CHORUS MISTRESS
Konstantina Pitsiakou

With:
Alkinoos Ioannidis (The Martlet's Tale), Dimitra Selemidou, Ioulia Spanou (Sweet Movie)


With the GNO Orchestra and Children's Chorus

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Students, reduced: €12
Limited visibility: €10

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