Name: Strella
Start: 2023-10-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Alternative Stage

Organization

Stage director

George Koutlis

Conductor

Konstantinos Terzakis

Set designer

Eva Manidaki

Costume designer

Ioanna Tsami

Choreographer

Fenia Apostolou

Lighting designer

Nikos Vlasopoulos

Singer

Letta Kappa

Strella

Anastasia Kotsali

Callas

Ioanna Zam-Petrou

Mary

Nikos Spanatis

Alex

Victoria Tsitouridou-Maya

Wilma

Nicolas Maraziotis

Nikos, Policeman

Nina Nai

Drag Performer

Giorgos Roupas

Kouloukousis

Alexandros Stavropoulos

Squirrel

Nikos Ziaziaris

Antonis, Yuri

Christina Kyriaki

Child

Dido Papanikolaou

Music Coaches

Frixos Mortzos

Maria Neofytidou

Mihalis Psiras

Yorgos

Greek National Opera

Athens

Greece

Alternative Stage

Strella Paraskakis

Public

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Mezzo-soprano

Countertenor

Bass

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Tenor

Soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Όπερα δωματίου • Ανάθεση της ΕΛΣ • Αναβίωση Μιχάλης Παρασκάκης Σ Τ Ρ Ε Λ Λ Α 18, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 29 Οκτωβρίου & 2, 3, 4 Νοεμβρίου 2023 Ώρα έναρξης: 20.30...

Panos H. Koutras’ stunning, multi-award-winning film Strella (2009), a milestone in modern Greek cinema, becomes a chamber opera commissioned by the Greek National Opera from composer Michalis Paraskakis. An emblematic film about the visibility of trans people and the LGTBQ+ community in Greece and abroad inspires for the first time a Greek operatic work.

The new chamber opera Strella with a libretto by Alexandra K* and conducted by Konstantinos Terzakis, returns, through the fresh subversive eye of sought-after theatre director George Koutlis, to the GNO Alternative Stage at the SNFCC. The roles of Strella, Mary and Wilma are performed respectively by the transgender artists Letta Kappa, Ioanna Zam-Petrou and Victoria Tsitouridou-Maya, returning to the operatic stage.

The opera treats the meeting between Yorgos, a 48-year-old man newly released from prison, and Strella, a young trans sex worker who idolises Maria Callas. The future seems open for both of them for the first time after a very long time. However, as Yorgos’ accounts with the past are far from closed, his history comes back to haunt him. Together with Strella, they must find a way to redemption.

The cinematic story of Strella, as unfolded in Panos H. Koutras and Panagiotis Evangelidis’ script, seems to have all the marks of a realist music drama, as it leans upon Ancient Greek tragedy with direct allusions to the myth of Oedipus and in terms of operatic verismo.

Thirteen years later, the film’s subject remains as topical as it was in the time it was first released. In contemporary reality, where boldness and truth are absolutely necessary, the film’s characters, and subsequently those of the opera too, are not treated as caricatures but as persons who fall in love, love and experience pain.

English

Strella by Paraskakis, Fri 20 Oct 2023, From (2023/2023), Directed by George Koutlis,, Conductor Konstantinos Terzakis, Alternative Stage, Athens, Greece

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