Tuesday 28 February 2017. At the Sofia Opera & Ballet
presented the opera "Prometheus Bound" Panagiotis Karousos with great
Greek opera artists.
At the first plan bass Vasilis Asimakopoulos as Prometheus,
soprano Irene Konsta as Io, violinist Stavroula Menti, and pianist
Victoria-Fjoralba Kiazimi, impressed the Bulgarian public of Sofia Opera &
Ballet.
The remarkable lyric artists received many congratulations
and applause from opera lovers.
The music thrilled the audience as well as the
interpretations of high quality artists.
The excellent bass Vasilis Asimakopoulos in the role of
Prometheus was remarkable, and the impressive soprano Irini Konsta at the role
of Io gave her best in a difficult task.
The meritorious violinist Stavroula Menti, and fine pianist
Victoria-Fjoralba Kiazimi,
accompanied the protagonists with musicality and excelled in
the orchestral parts.
The audience thrilled by the quality of the voices and the
performance of the beautiful music.
The Sofia Opera & Ballet presented the opera
"Prometheus Bound" to a concert version form under the auspices of
Clubs for UNESCO of Piraeus & Islands and UNESCO "Leonardo da
Vinci" Sofia.
Greetings gave Ioannis Maronitis, president of the Club for
UNESCO of Piraeus & Islands, Janet Borlakova, president of the Club for
UNESCO "Leonardo da Vinci" Sofia, Bulgaria, the Acad. Plamen
Kartalov, director of the National Opera of Sofia, Slav Petkov, chairman of the
Balkan and Black Sea Area Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (FAPA-BBS),
etc.
In the production of the opera involved the organizations:
Club for UNESCO Piraeus and Islands, Club for UNESCO "Leonardo da
Vinci" Sofia, Balkan and Black Sea Area Federation of Adapted Physical
Activity (FAPA-BBS), Hellenique-International, the Embassy of Bulgaria in
Athens, and the Hellenic-American Center of the Arts.
Prometheus was presented in Montreal at Place des Arts, and
played occasionally in French until 2000. The work is based on the tragedy of
Aeschylus 'Prometheus Bound' translated by Gryparis, and the Theogony of
Hesiod. In 2008 the opera presented in New York and Washington, USA under the
direction of maestro Grant Gilman, in English.
In Greece Prometheus staged at the Theatre of Ancient
Messene, Ancient Agora, National Archaeological Museum, the Little Theatre of
Ancient Epidaurus, the Old Parliament House, Theatre Veakio, and dozens of
performances at Municipal Theatres.
In March 2014 the opera "Prometheus Bound," starring
Vasilis Asimakopoulos presented at Queens' Mamie Fay Auditorium and at the UN
headquarters in Manhattan, representing Greece in UNESCO. 
