Panagiotis Karousos Concert in Dubai UAE with soprano Hlín Leifsdóttir and pianist Benjamin Chatzikoubaroglou

 

P. Karousos Concert in Dubai UAE

Tuesday May 14th 2024 - Dubai Villa Falcon UAE | 9TH INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART SYMPOSIUM, DUBAI – 13TH-18TH MAY 2024. IOANNIS MARONITIS GENERAL PRESIDENT AND CEO OF INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART. SULTANA KAZIM PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART UAE CHAPTER AND WORLDWIDE AMBASSADOR International Action Art and the Club for UNESCO of Piraeus and Islands successfully presented a Concert in Dubai with works of the internationally acclaimed composer Panagiotis Karousos, featuring renowned soprano Hlín Leifsdóttir and pianist Benjamin Chatzikoubaroglou. PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS, COMPOSER HLÍN LEIFSDÓTTIR, SOPRANO BENJAMIN CHATZIKOUBAROGLOU, PIANO 9th International Action Art Symposium, Dubai UAE 13th-18th May 2024 Honorary VIP Sultana Kazim Presentation: Ioannis Maronitis, President of International Action Art and the Club for UNESCO of Piraeus and Islands Program Aria of Deianira from the opera Olympic Flame Aria of Oceanid from the opera Prometheus Bound Aria of Helen from the opera Iliad Mother Earth by Hlín Leifsdóttir Pour les enfants de Palestine by Olivia Elias "Sonnet 109" by William Shakespeare "Maid of Athens, ere we part" by Lord Byron Caryatids by Ioannis Polemis Song "Maria Callas of our hearts" Islandic great soprano Hlín Leifsdóttir did a marvelous performance accompanied by the Greek virtuoso pianist Benjamin Chatzikoubaroglou. Audience much loved the concert and gave continuous applauses. Sultana Kazim and Ioannis Maronitis President of the UNESCO Pireaus & Islands thanked the artists and the composer Panagiotis Karousos of the excellent concert. The event was captured by Zaahirah Zabeen Muthy for the ZEE TV Middle-East.

The Great Maria Callas in London's Royal Festival Hall on 31 May 1963

 

Anch'io dischiuso un giorno...

After recording her second 'Callas a Paris' disc in May 1963, Callas embarked on a brief European tour of Berlin, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, London, Paris and Copenhagen. Her performances since 1959 had been much curtailed and these were her only public appearances that year. She returned to London's Royal Festival Hall on 31 May 1963, her third concert there since 1959.

Critic Harold Rosenthal, reviewing the London concert, found her voice under greater control and sounding better than at any time since her last appearance at Covent Garden (in a televised concert in 1961). The scene from Nabucco - probably the most difficult of all the concert items - was considered by the critics to have been the outstanding moment of the evening.

A week later she appeared in Paris in a slightly modified programme to include French arias, which was broadcast on radio, and is an example of her voice and art at that time. There she seems to be in slightly less secure voice, but displaying moments of great beauty and insight and superb in her first public performance of 'Les lettres' scene from Massenet's 'Werther'.

The Great Maria Callas

The Great Maria Callas