SPYROS SAMARAS: CRETAN GIRL

SPYROS SAMARAS: CRETAN GIRL
    
TCH - NATIONAL OPERA - SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF THESSALONIKI

22 November 2012 to 25 November 2012
Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun     21:00  (FRIENDS OF MUSIC HALL M1)

Tickets: 50€, 35€, 25 (10€ students), 15€ (10€ students), 10€
 
Comic melodrama in three acts

Libretto by Nikolaos Laskaris and Polyvios Dimitrakopoulos

In the program of its first production the Cretan girl is referred to as a comic melodrama; there is no indication though concerning the genre on the composer's manuscript. Although the plot is set on Crete during the Venetian rule (1211-1715), the inspiration for the work came probabley from the Cretan revolutions against the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th century, the foundation of the Cretan State (1896-1913) and finally the unification of Crete with Greece after the Balkan Wars of 1912/3. Central figure of the plot is Areti, the Cretan girl. She tries to gain priviliges for her compaltriots from the Venetian Duke of Crete, who is in love with her. Around this basic plot a number of comical sentmental stories unfolds, which lead the opera to a happy ending

Ηλίας Βουδούρης Conductor
Petros Zoulias Director
Anastasia Arseni
To be announced Lightings
Fotis Diamandopoulos Choreographer
Katerina Petsatodi Assistant Director
Agathangelos Georgakatos Choir Director
Gogo Iliopoulou Areti
Sophia Kianidou Contessa
Dionisis Tsandinis Duke
Alexandra Mattheoudaki Dutchess
Yiannis Christopoulos Paul
Dimitris Nalbantis Michael
Kostis Rasidakis Joker
Pavlos Maropoulos Don Platsido