Irini tsirakidis biography of michael

I was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and raised in Piraeus, Greece, where my musical journey began with rigorous training under the esteemed baritone Kostas.

Irini Tsirakidis - Libera me - Messa da Requiem VERDI (Part 2) - Conductor Louli Psihouli.

News about Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.

•

Χωρίς Τίτλο

In conjunction with the production of the opera Yasou Aida!at the Athens Festival, the music theatre company “The Beggars’ Operas” and the Michael Cacoyannis Foundationare organizing a conference on the subject “Opera and Politics”. The conference will take place at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation (206 Peiraios str., Tavros, Athens) on Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1st, before the respective performances of Yasou Aida!. The language of the conference is Greek. Admission is free.

The conference aims to bring people who serve opera as either theorists or artists into contact, and have them discuss in an open and democratic way several issues that are traditionally discussed privately or behind closed doors, but only rarely in public. For instance:

Is opera an intrinsically bourgeois or conservative genre?
Does opera have a dynamic, politically active potential, or its value is to be found solely in its aesthetic dimension?
Is really immigration the only way for Greek opera professionals?
Are contemporary alternative approaches to music theatre really “opera”?
Is opera in modern Greece meaningful beyond its dimension as a museum art?

The programme of the conference is as follows:

•

2nd edition

FESTIVAL

« European Polyphony / Polyphonie Européenne » ©

14 & 15 & 16 February 2020

DISTRIBUTION

MUSIC

Marcel Pérès (Fr), organ - Yiorgos Kaloudis (Gr), classical Cretan lyra, cello - Savvas Karatzias, composer - Andreas Moustoukis (Cy), composer - Christia Michael (Cy), soprano - Arctic trio (No), Gustav Rørmark, violin - Njord Kårason Fossnes, viola - Brage Botn Seim, cello.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Adeline Bommart (Fr) - Thomas Deschamps (Fr)

Artistic Direction

Chrysanthos Antoniou, president of association Arts Spotanés, artistic director (France-Paris)

Savvas Karatzias, president of Ars Artis association (Greece-Rhodes)

MEET THE ARTISTS - ROGRAM 2020

MARCEL PÉRÈS (Fr)

Organist, composer, musicologist, choral director and singer, founder and artistic director of Ensemble Organum

After studying organ and composition at the Nice Conservatoire, Marcel Pérès continued his musical studies in Great Britain and Canada. Back in Europe in 1979, he began to specialize in medieval music and founded, in 1982, Ensemble Organum underta

•

Past Festival Repertoire

Operas
Bizet: Carmen (2010)
Cherubini: Medea (2015)
Celius Dougherty: Many Moons (2015)
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (2016)
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K.527 (2006, 2017)
Mascagni: Zanetto (2007)
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (2008)
Mollicone: Starbird (2016)
Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (2013)
Mozart: The Impresario (2013)
Mozart's Tie Madness based put a stop to Le nozze di Figaro (2016)
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (2014)
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (2017)
Puccini: Tosca (2009)
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (2005)
Rossini: La Cenerentola (2018)
R. Strauss: Salome (2012)
Verdi: La Traviata (2011)
Verdi: Rigoletto (2014)
Wolf-Ferrari: Cenerentola (2013)

General Repertoire
Albinoni: Adagio subsidize Strings (2016)
Antognini: O Magnum Mysterium (2015)
Arcadelt: Ave Tree (2017)
Arriaga: Prelude to "Los Esclavos Felices" (2010)

Bach: Aria Duetto, BWV 78 (2016)
Bach: Cello Appoint No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (2017)
Bach: Concerto funds Piano be first String Orchestra No. 5, BWV 1056 (2016)
Bach: Man dein Mitleid (Lord, Your Mercy) (2017)
Bach: "Wir eilen doch emsige