Thursday, February 28, 2013
B A L L E T
- A Journey to Eternity @ National Opera
The National Opera Ballet will stage the ballet A Journey to Eternity, a tribute to outstanding composers Eleni Karaindrou, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Renato Zanella choreographs the superlative suites Bachianas Brasileiras by Villa-Lobos and some of the most beautiful music composed by Eleni Karaindrou for the films of eminent Greek filmmaker Theodoros Angelopoulos. At the National Opera, from March 2.
M U S I C
- Evanthia Reboutsika @ Gazarte
Reboutsica wrote the film-score for the blockbuster A Touch of Spice (2003), directed by Tassos Boulmetis.
- Bach’s Brandenburg Concerts @ Onassis Cultural Centre
After its success in October 2012, the Camerata is playing all of Bach’s legendary Brandenburg Concerts at the Onassis Cultural Centre, on March 2.
The concert will be on period instruments, similar to those the composer actually wrote for. The six Concerts à plusieurs instruments, as Bach describes them, were completed in 1721, and are widely regarded as among the finest compositions of the Baroque era.
- 1st Athens Jazz Guitar Summit
The first Athens Jazz Guitar Summit is taking place at the Half Note Jazz Club on February 28 and March 1st. The Summit features six notable jazz guitarists, Theo Blackbird, Apostolis Leventopoulos, John Loukatos, Nick Terzakis, Takis Barberis and Matt Ablianitis, who will be accompanied by the excellent Dimitris Kalantzis trio.
- Unexposed @ Michael Cacoyannis Foundation
Forty young Iranian female artists living and working in Iran, exhibit their creations for the first time in Greece, at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation till March 24.
The exhibition under the title Unexposed is curated by the Art Historian Fery Malek-Madani. The artists, born between 1971 and 1991, show a unique way of creating through paintings, videos or installations, despite an atmosphere of religious conservatism, inequalities and anti-western culture.
The exhibition under the title Unexposed is curated by the Art Historian Fery Malek-Madani. The artists, born between 1971 and 1991, show a unique way of creating through paintings, videos or installations, despite an atmosphere of religious conservatism, inequalities and anti-western culture.
