IL TROVATORE | 2008

"An event. Not only artistic, but also social.» Maria Katsounaki, Kathimerini

Il trovatore (1853)
Opera in four acts

Music: Giuseppe Verdi
Text: Salvadore Cammarano (after the play El trovador by Antonio Garcìa Gutierrez)
Orchestration: Kharálampos Goyós (after the critical edition by David Lawton – The University of Chicago Press, 1993)

Musical direction-coaching: Kharálampos Goyós
Stage direction: Ektoras Lygizos
Set-costumes: Constantinos Zamanis
Lighting design: Max Penzel

Assistant director: Dimitris Dimopoulos
Assistant lighting designer: Antonis Kokkoris
Chorus coordinator: Konstantinos Printezis

Production manager: Gabriella Triantafyllis

Surtitle translation: Kharálampos Goyós, Ektoras Lygizos
Surtitle design: Dimitris Emiris
Surtitle operator: Dimitris Dimopoulos

The Count de Luna: Manolis Papadakis
Leonora: Marina Kolyva
Azucena: Ioanna Forti
Manrico: Yannis Christopoulos
Ferrando: Mihalis Katsoulis
Ines: Barbara Biza
Ruiz: Manos Christofakakis*, Giannis Kalyvas†
An old Gipsy: Thymios Tsimpouris*, Angelos Chondrogiannis†
A messenger: Konstantinos Printezis
A girl: Maria Mandalou

Chorus: Christina Avgeridi, Barbara Biza, Magdalini Chalazia†, Angelos Chondrogiannis†, Manos Christofakakis*, Fani Gevetzi, Anna Dimitropoulou*, Ioanna Eleftheriades*, Giannis Kalyvas†, Sofia Kaminari*, Dimitra Karditsioti*, Vasso Karioti†, Maria Mandalou, Evita Maniatopoulou, Marios Markopoulos*, Lito Messini†, Valentina Michail*, Maria Mourkoussi, Stamatis Pakakis*, Thodoris Paltoglou*, Sophia Papadimitropoulou, Nandia Papandreou, Elektra Papasimakis†, Virginia Pavlopoulou*, Dimitris Petridis*, Iro Plakia*, Konstantinos Printezis, Alexandros Stavrakakis†, Marianna Tiligada*, Markela Tsane*, Thymios Tsimpouris*, Xenia Zisi†

Sotiris Pepelas, trumpet
Arsen Ter-Tatchatyan, percussion
Andreas Stergiou, guitar
Christos Zerbinos, accordion
Eleni Davou, piano

First performance: May 7, 2008, BIOS, Athens
9 performances
First performance of the revival: November 3, 2008, BIOS, Athens
10 performances

* = May 2008, † = November-December 2008