KHARÁLAMPOS GOYÓS
Born in Athens in 1977, Kharálampos Goyós studied music theory with
composers Philippos Tsalahouris and Dimitris Lionis. He is a graduate
of the Department of Music Studies of the University of Athens, where
his teachers included, among others, important composers and music
theorists such as Panagiotis Adam, Theodore Antoniou, George
Fitsioris, Kostas Klavvas, Dimitris Sykias and George Zervos. Goyós
has collaborated with most important Greek venues and institutions
(Greek National Opera, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Athens and
Thessaloniki Concert Halls, National Theatre of Greece, Greek Art
Theatre “Karolos Koun”, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, Onassis Stegi,
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Michael Cacoyannis
Foundation, BIOS, Neos Kosmos Theatre, Hellenic Broadcasting
Corporation, Orchestra of Colours, Hellenic Ensemble of Contemporary
Music, dissonArt ensemble, ARTéfacts ensemble, CHÓRES female vocal
ensemble, Documenta, Art Athina et al.).
His opera Little Red Riding Hood and the (Good) Wolf (1998)
has been released on CD by the Orchestra of Colours under the
direction of Vassilis Christopoulos. His opera A Body
(2007), after the short story by Camillo Boito, was commissioned and
premiered by the Experimental Stage of the Greek National Opera. In
2008, Damage, an Opera in Seven Meals (2004), Goyós's
controversial adaptation of the novel Damage by Josephine
Hart, was presented as part of the prestigious Athens Festival. His
"populist oratorio" New Greece (The Making-Of) has been
released as a digital album on the Fytini label. In 2017, his music
for Sophocles's Antigone (National Theatre of Greece, dir.
Stathis Livathinos) was awarded the Best Music prize at the Cyprus
Theatre Awards. His opera Anthony's Death (2020), based on
the memory of the anime series Candy Candy and the work of
Slavoj Žižek, was commissioned and video premiered by the Alternative
Stage of the GNO during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Goyós is a co-founder of the independent Athens music theatre company
The Beggars' Operas. In 2012, Yasou Aida!, a contemporary
political reworking of Verdi's Aida by Goyós, Alexandros
Efklidis and Dimitris Dimopoulos co-produced by the Neuköllner Oper
and the Thessaloniki Concert Hall was played in Berlin, Thessaloniki
and Athens to accolades of the international press and awarded the
"Karolos Koun" honourable mention by the Association of Greek Theatre
and Music Critics. This was followed by two further controversial
political opera paraphrases, AirRossini, or We Are the 1%,
commissioned and premiered by the Neuköllner Oper in 2013, and Twilight
of the Debts, commissioned and premiered by the Alternative
Stage of the GNO in 2017/18.
Hailed by the Greek press as "the hottest name in alternative
opera" (Eleftherotypia) and "the 'Wunderkind'
of Greek music theatre" (Realnews), Goyós is
considered as one of the most talented Greek musicians of his
generation. He formerly taught at the Music Theatre Workshop of the
Municipal and Regional Theatre of Patras, and currently teaches at the
Athens Conservatoire and the Drama School of the National Theatre of
Greece.