The opera "Prometheus Bound" fascinated students at the 2nd General Lyceum of Athens

Tuesday, April 25, 2017. In the fully renovated former Villa of Amalia, Heyden 35 and Acharnon, which accommodates the 2nd General Lyceum of Athens (Theodoros Angelopoulos), was presented the most important opera of Greece, the masterpiece of the Ancient Greek Tragedy "Prometheus Bound". The Tragedy of Aeschylus "Prometheus Bound" translate by J. Gryparis, set to music by composer Panagiotis Karousos and directed by bass Vasilis Asimakopoulos, brought the universal values ​​and messages in the most effective way to students and teachers.

The music of the opera was unforgettable, moved and settled, interpreted by remarkable opera singers-actors, led by the unparalleled protagonist Vasilis Asimakopoulos, and the impressive soprano with great stage presence Irene Konsta.

In the Official Program approved by the Ministry of Education of Greece, the protagonists were: Prometheus: Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass - Io: Irini Konsta, soprano - Ocean / Hermes: Theodoros Birakos, Tenor - Athena Dimitra Kamitsi, soprano - Victoria-Fjoralba Kiazimi, piano.

Prometheus: Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass - Ocean / Hermes: Theodoros Birakos, Tenor 

It was preceded the pedagogical seminar: " Prosody as a link of the opera with the ancient Greek tragedy". The presentation of the seminar was attended by: Eleni Pyrri, Director of 2nd 2nd General Lyceum of Athens - Athanasios Drivas, Director of 2nd General Lyceum of Athens – Dr Anastasios Koutsoukos, philologist - coordinator of the seminar, - Dr Chrysoula Tsigri, School Counselor A’ Athens - Panagiotis Karousos, composer - the Teachers of Informatics Georgia Tsiviltidou, and Georgia Kritikou, the Philologists: Gerassis Dimitra, Elpiniki Koutangelou, Vasiliki Nikolaidis, Georgios Kalogeris, the Mathematicians: Vasilios Hararis, Anthi Georgopoulou, the Physical Education Teachers: Vasilios Panagopoulos, Diakoumis Konstantinos, the Physicist Pantelis Elias and the Geologist Nikolaos Mastrakas. Also texts on the opera and the 2nd Chorus of the Tragedy "Prometheus Bound" in translation by J. Gryparis read by 10 students of the Second General Lyceum of Athens and the Theatrical Group of the 42nd General Lyceum of Athens.

Prometheus: Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass - Io: Irini Konsta, soprano 

In particular, the 2nd Chorus of the Tragedy "Prometheus Bound" of Aeschylus was read by the students Eleni Avramioti and Evelina Kourelousa.

Texts edited by Dr. Anastasios Koutsoukos, on the contribution of Prosody to the opera and classical music, and the types of opera voices, were read by Zoi Zykai, Georgia Tsiouliaka, and Artemis Tsounos.

Prometheus: Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass - Athena: Dimitra Kamitsi, soprano 

All students of the 2nd General Lyceum of Athens and the 42nd General Lyceum of Athens participated in the Auditorium where they attended the seminar and the opera presentation with a great interest. More than 300 students have whipped up the exuberant lyric artists who really impressed with their interpretation, students and teachers.

Dr Anastasios Koutsoukos, philologist - coordinator of the seminar, - Athanasios Drivas, Director of 2nd General Lyceum of Athens –
Dr Chrysoula Tsigri, School Counselor A’ Athens -
Panagiotis Karousos, composer.

Greek Legacies: Dynamic Narratives in Film & Performance Arts

Saturday May 6th 2017

4:00pm-7:00pm

PHILO4THOUGHT CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND OUR 

4TH ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY!

On-Campus Awards & Networking Reception

GREEK LEGACIES:

DYNAMIC NARRATIVES

IN FILM & PERFORMANCE ARTS

Join in this celebration of the rich Greek Legacy of story telling and creative expression in Film, Music, Dance and more! Amazing Hellenic professionals are working together to present you with a variety of talks, performances and activities that portray the complexity of the Greek Identity in their professional projects and creating a vision and impression that lasts, as our ancestors have.    

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FEATURED GUEST SPEAKERS

(click speaker names to learn more about our event)

PROF. JAMES DEMETRO

Director, NYC Greek Film Festival

LOUIS KATSOS

President, Jekmar Associates, Inc.

CONSTANTINE SIRIGOS

Director of Outreach and Development, American Community Schools (Athens)

NIKOLETA RALLIS

Soprano

NIKOLAOS MARKAKIS

Independent Performer, Designer & Choreographer

VASSILIOS CHRISSOCHOS

Director, Porphyra

PROF. PERRY RIZOPOULOS

Author & Adjunct Lecturer, Philosophy 

TBD

Startup/Finance Specialist

ARIADNE PANAGOPOULOU, ESQ.

Associate, Pardalis & Nohavicka, LLP

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SPECIAL PERFORMANCES

MIKE RISKO SAVVAS

NIKOLAOS MARKAKIS

NIKOLETA RALLIS

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS

George Elias Stephanopoulos, Esq.

Attorney, Stephanopoulos Consulting
Creative Producer, Swing Away

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CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE HONOREES

This special list of honorees has been privately selected by our Board
and will be announced on the day of the conference. 

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REGISTRATION

Special Discounts are available to Hellenic Students, Scholars and Young Professionals:

Discount Code: GreekLegacies2017

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COLLABORATORS

Organized in collaboration with the National Hellenic Students Association, the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, and with the help of our additional event Sponsors & Affiliates.

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Philo4Thought is a 501(c)3 Philanthropic Nonprofit Educational Foundation. All donations are considered charitable contributions towards the successful progress of our programs and publications and are therefore tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. 100% of all donations go towards the preparation of activities and services in support of today’s young professional. 

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IN MEMORIUM

This year’s conference is dedicated in loving memory to the following outstanding individuals who have inspired the Hellenic community for generations:

KATERINI DRAKOYIANNAKI

Iraklion, Crete

STANLEY NEAMONITIS

Avgonima, Chios

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES 

Many thanks to all those who have dedicated their time, effort and know-how
to help make our 2017HYP Spring Conference a success.

Please email P4Tinfo@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer for future events.

Hellenic American Center of the Arts

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The Works of Greek-Canadian composer Panagiotis Karousos

Chamber Music Works by Greek-Canadian composer Panagiotis Karousos

The opera Prometheus Bound with a seminar at the High Schools of Athens

Thursday, April 6, 2017. A major educational project take place in Secondary Education of Greece in Athens, with a presentation of the contemporary opera masterpiece based on Aeschylus' tragedy 'Prometheus Bound' set to Music by Panagiotis Karousos and the Stage Direction by Vasilis Asimakopulos.
The program started on January 31, 2017 at the 18th Athens High School, and continuous its presentations with a huge success with the 48th and 59th High Schools of Athens.
At the approved program of the Ministry of Education of Greece with the agreement of the Teachers' Association participated the lyric opera artists: Prometheus: Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass - Io: Irene Konsta, soprano - Ocean / Hermes: Theodoros Birakos, tenor - Violence / Athena: Dimitra Kamitsi, soprano - Victoria Kiazimi, piano.

To the modern opera preceded the seminar: "The prosody as a link of the opera with the ancient Greek tragedy."
The presentation of the seminar was made by Elias Koutsis, Director of the 18th Athens High School, Dr. Chrysoula Tsigris, School Counselor of Education in Athens, the philologist Dr. Anastasios Koutsoukos, who was coordinator, Paraskevi Makrinou, musician and the composer Panagiotis Karousos. He participated the mathematician Sophia Papadatou and Basiliki Pata singer of the 18th High School Choir that sang a prosody sample in a phrase of Prometheus accompanied on the piano by the musician Parasksvi Makrinou.

The students of Third Level of Athens High School 18th: Anna Maria Boura, Georgitina Kleiasiou, Joanna Shehu, Panagiota Vitsi, read the 2nd Choral of the Tragedy Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, and Athanasia Daniilidou read a reference text to "Prosody and Music".
The presentation of the Program attended two Departments of the 48th High School of Athens with the Director Despina Daras and the Teachers of French and German, three departments of the 59th High School of Athens accompanied by their professor of theology and two French Departments of the 18th Gymnasium accompanied by Professor Zoi Chorianopoulou.

The seminar covered the Themes: Music in Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek musical system, The orchestra instruments in ancient Greek drama, The ancient Greek tragedians, The ancient Greek theater. The music school Paraskevi Makrinou read: The kinds of voices in opera. The composer Panayiotis Karousos developed the meaning of prosody in relation to the development of opera and prose-prosody difference in ancient Greek tragedy. Also mentioned the connection of Opera and Ancient Greek tragedy and the contribution of prosody to the creation of Classical Music.

The presentation acclaimed by Elias Koutsis, director of the 18th our High School of Athens: "It is a great honor for the High Schools and Education to realizing this Program of the Ministry of Culture of Greece, a great educational project of the Ministry of Education that makes us particularly proud of the creator Panagiotis Karousos and his contribution. The composer is with us today with the worthy associates lyric opera singers to analyze and presented the opera "Prometheus Bound."

Attended by over 200 students who applauded enthusiastically the wonderful performances of the opera singers fine protagonists, Vasilis Asimakopoulos, Irene Konsta, Theodoros Birakos, Dimitra Kamitsi, and pianist Victoria Kiazimi. Dr. Chrysoula Tsigris, School Counselor in Athens Education, congratulated the opera singers of opera, the composer Panagiotis Karousos, and all actors and participants in the remarkable program of the Ministry of Education of Greece.

The Sofia - National Opera & Ballet applauses the opera Prometheus by Panagiotis Karousos

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. 

It was the first time in history that opera traveled from Greece to America. Under the direction of conductor Eleftherios Kalkanis presented at the Third ERT Program and Concert Hall "Parnassos". In 2016 the opera was presented in the Amphitheater Richelieu of the Sorbonne in Paris starring: Vasilis Asimakopoulos, Irene Konsta, Vanessa Kalkanis, Kassandra Dimopoulou, Philip Modinos, Victoria-Fjoralba Kiazimi.