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From Beethoven and the era of grand musical subversions to contemporary readings of the historical repertoire, the Early Music Days festival invites audiences on a journey through emblematic works, period instruments, and fresh artistic approaches, highlighting the timeless power of musical creation. The programme is divided into two thematic cycles.
The First Cycle, titled The Age of Revolutions and curated by the versatile and highly prolific artist Dimos Goudaroulis, is dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven and his creative entourage. It will feature music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, spanning Classicism to Early Romanticism, with masterworks of chamber music by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert, performed on period instruments by prominent Greek and European musicians.
The Second Cycle, titled Active Pasts and curated by distinguished conductor Markellos Chryssicos, is grounded in the belief that Early Music is not an outdated fossil but an active field of listening and reinterpretation that continues to generate new meanings even today. In this context, new commissions from Greek composers, jazz interpretations of Bach's variations, electronic sounds, and sound and lighting design create a seamless artistic setting in which the historical material is reactivated.
■ Timoleon and Julia: A Baroque Story of Cross-Dressing | 25 November 2026
In collaboration with the National Theatre of Greece
Works by Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Robert de Visée, Michel Lambert, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Michel Richard de Lalande
Supervising director: Argyro Chioti • Concept, musical direction: Markellos Chryssicos • Dramaturgy, translation: TBA | Nicolò Balducci, Sophia Patsi voices, Andreas Linos viola da gamba, Iason Ioannou violoncello, Theodoros Kitsos theorbe
Long before he became a prominent figure in letters and was admitted to the French Academy, François-Timoléon de Choisy was dressed as a little girl by his mother to entertain the brother of Louis XIV, later known as Philippe, Duke of Orléans. Long before she became a singer for Lully at the Paris Opera, Jully d'Aubigny made her living by giving sword-fighting demonstrations dressed as a man. Against the backdrop of the French Grand Siècle, the adventurous and humorous stories of these two figures come to life on stage, through the literature and pulp fiction of the time.
Ticket prices: 12, 15 • Students, children: 10
Tickets on sale from: 31/7
