CASSANDRA | 2010
"An excitingly interesting lyric work with personal style [...] and an inconceivable musical and expressive richness." Yannis Svolos, Eleftherotypia
Cassandra (1727)
Cantata
Music: Benedetto Marcello
Text: Antonio Conti
Musical direction: Markellos Chryssikos
Stage direction: Argyro Chioti
Set-costumes: Paul Thanopoulos
Lighting design: Tassos Palaioroutas
Video art: Yannis Gaitanidis
Cassandra: Ioanna Forti
Actors (vasistas theatre group): Leonard Batis, Naima Carbajal, Ariane Labed
Pre-recorded voices:
Priamo: Tassis Christoyannis
Andromaca: Theodora Baka
Ettorre: Nicholas Spanos
Latinitas Nostra
Flora Papadopoulos, baroque harp
Theodoros Kitsos, theorbo, baroque
guitar
Iason Ioannou, baroque cello
Dimitris Tigkas, violone
Markellos Chryssikos, harpsichord, artistic
direction
Executive producers: Kharálampos
Goyós, Constantinos
Zamanis
First performance: September 25, 2009, Rhodes Festival
First performance in Athens: October 15, 2010, "THESEUM, a Theatre for
the Arts"
3 performances
Co-produced by the Phormigx Concert Agency