GREEK NEWS AGENDA: The Culture Agenda

Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Culture Agenda

T H E A T R E

Aesop’s Fables @ Onassis Cultural Centre

An original multi-part music show taking Aesop’s fables as a starting point is being presented at the Onassis Cultural Centre, on March 9-10. Aesop’s fables is a musical fairytale for singers, orchestra and narrations, bringing the fables’ animal heroes to life using, amongst other devices, shadow-puppets of the Karaghiozis tradition. See also: Aesop's fables [VIDEO]

Slava’s Snowshow @ Pallas Theatre

Russian clown Slava Polunin presents his Slava’s Snowshow, at the Pallas Theatre till March 10.

The multi award- winning show famously climaxes in a man-made blizzard: tons of ticker-tape blasted into the audience using a wind-machine, to the rousing bombast of Carmina Burana.

Anestis Azas & Prodromos Tsinikoris @ Onassis Cultural Centre

Two young Greek artists, Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris, and a distinguished German dramatist, Jens Hillje stage a unique spectacle titled Telemachus - Should I Stay or Should I Go at the Onassis Cultural Centre, till March 10.

They present Greek immigrants in Germany since the 1960s as their living material; the older generation of immigrants, the Gastarbeiter, and Greeks fleeing the current economic crisis meet in an on-stage documentary.

The protagonists are not actors, but Germany’s Greeks themselves—old and young, university professors and labourers, casino owners and waiters.

Each one a modern-day Ulysses, they tell their stories to the audience, either live on stage or in recorded audio-visual material.

M U S I C

3rd World Jazz Festival @ Cine Keramikos

The World Jazz Festival and Athens Swing Festival, 3rd edition - winter 2013 takes place at Cine Keramikos, on March 8 to 10. For three consecutive nights, Athens will be living the New Orleans jazz atmosphere, with a scent of traditional Macedonian carnival celebrations. Afrojazz, funk, swing, bossa nova and cabaret will be matched with Balkan jazz and brass bands.

O P E R A

Die Zauberflöte @ Greek National Opera

Sublime and humorous, one of the most popular operas of all time, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte returns to the Greek National Opera, from March 9. This production is under the guidance of the eminent French director Arnaud Bernard.

Tenors Antonis Koronaios and Nikos Stefanou share the role of the brave prince Tamino, while Maria Mitsopoulou and Mina Polychronou alternate as Pamina. Sopranos Vasiliki Karagianni and Christina Poulitsi share the role of the Queen of the Night.