Paris-Sorbonne
University
Théâtre
Démodocos, Service culturel de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, Festival des
Dionysies
PROMETHEUS
BOUND BY AESCHYLUS
Music by
PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS
Directed
by VASILIS ASIMAKOPOULOS
“The
Masterpiece Tragedy of Aeschylus Comes to Paris”
TUESDAY
5 APRIL 2016
Amphithéâtre
Richelieu (Sorbonne)
17 Rue
de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, France
By
Invitation Only / Time 8:30pm
Prometheus:
Vassilis Assimakopoulos - Io: Irene Konsta
Ocean/Hermes:
Philip Modinos - Via/Oceanide/Athena: Kassandra Dimopoulou
Victoria
Kiazimi, piano – Presentation: Ioannis Maronitis, president of UNESCO Club of
Pireaus & Islands
Panagiotis Karousos, composer
Panagiotis
Karousos is a renowned Greek-Canadian composer who brings to his music the
philosophy and spiritualism of the Greek classics. He did many concerts in
Canada and USA with his Symphony No.1 “Liberty”, and Symphony No.2 “Olympic”
with Astoria Symphony, the FACE Symphony Orchestra, the OSJL-L Symphony
Orchestra and the Monteregie Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestros
Silas Nathaniel Huff, Andre Gauthier, Theodora Stathopoulos and Luc Chaput. The
Piano Concerto was presented with pianist Nathalie Joncas under UNESCO auspices
in the Montreal Popular Concerts series in Montreal’s Maurice Richard
Arena to an audience of 5000 people. The Olympic Flame choir was presented with
the Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of Gunst wat'n Kunst at Hague, Holland,
with maestro R. Pylarinos. The opera Alexander the Great presented in Montreal
at the Montreal Notre Dame Basilica, in Chicago Illinois conducted by David
Stech, in North Carolina Theatre under the direction of Grant Gilman, and in
Toronto at P.C. Ho Theater Cultural Center of Toronto with the Sneak Peak
Symphony Orchestra of Toronto University and soloists under the direction of
maestro Victor Cheng. The opera Prometheus represented in Los Angeles, New
York, and Washington DC. From 2013 he did major presentations of Prometheus in
Ancient Greek Theaters (Epidaurus, Messina, Ancient Agora), and the National
Archeological Meseum of Greece. In 2014 Prometheus presented with bass Vasilis
Asimakopoulos in the United Nations and in Mamie Fay auditorium of New York
under the auspices of UNESCO. His Symphony No.4 “Earth” premiered with City of
Athens Symphony Orchestra with maestro Eleftherios Kalkanis.
Few words
about the opera “Prometheus Bound” by Panagiotis Karousos. Based on
Aeschylus tragedy “Prometheus Bound” by Panagiotis Karousos first premiered in Montreal, Canada in
1994 and played until 2000 in French in the translation
of Professor Jacques Bouchard Director of Modern Greek
Literature and Neohellenic Studiesof the University Center of Montreal. In
1998 the work presented in Los Angeles at Beverly
Hills City Hall. In 2008 represented in New York and
Washington in English under the direction of maestro Grant Gilman, and
American soloists from the opera of New York. The opera impressed with its
high lyricism. In Greece “Prometheus Bound” presented at the Municipal Theatres
of Athens, Salamina, Argostoli, Lixouri, Ithaca, Cholargos, Chalkis,
Corynth, at the Concert Hall of the Greek Writers, in “Parnassos” Concert Hall,
in the Old Parliament House, at the Theatre Veakeio, and the Theatre “Jenny
Karezi”. In 2013 bass Vasilis Asimakopoulos did unforgettable presentations of
the opera as a director and leading role at the Little Theatre of Ancient
Epidaurus, the Ancient Theatre Ekklesiasterion (Odeon) in Ancient Messene, the
Ancient Agora at the Ancient Site of Acropolis, and the National Archeological
Museum of Greece, and performed the main arias of the opera at “Parnassos”
Concert Hall conducted by E. Kalkanis. Recently the opera Prometheus Bound
represented in New York, Queens and United Nations Headquarters, Manhattan
under the auspices of UNESCO Club of Pireaus and Islands.
... written by Sigma Press Office
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