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FESTIVAL
"Rigoletto" by Giuseppe Verdi at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus
From 02 June to 11 June 2022 · ATHENS
Venue Details
Plaka - Akropoli
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Dionysiou Areopagiotou Street
The Greek National Opera’s first major summer production for 2022 is Giuseppe Verdi’s darkly menacing masterpiece Rigoletto, conducted by Lukas Karytinos and directed by Katerina Evangelatos. This highly anticipated GNO production, which was twice pushed back by the pandemic, will premiere this coming June at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival.
From 1851, when the work debuted in Venice, right down to today, Rigoletto has won the applause of audiences in their thousands across the world and has justly been hailed as one of the best-loved operas of all time. With his Rigoletto, Verdi opened a new chapter in his career as a composer, presenting a work with its own distinct identity that was also more open to experimentation, with its sudden shifts between formal melody and dramatic recitative ensuring that the action unfolds at lightning speed.
The story tells of Gilda, daughter of the hunchbacked court jester Rigoletto, and her love for the dissolute Duke of Mantua, who introduces himself to her in the guise of a poor student. To take his revenge on the Duke for seducing his daughter, Rigoletto plots his murder. On discovering her father’s plans, Gilda decides to save her beloved by taking his place and sacrificing her own life.
The Greek National Opera commissioned Katerina Evangelatos –theatre director, Artistic Director of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, and one of the most promising artistic voices of the new generation– to direct this production of Rigoletto. Following on from her first successful collaboration with the GNO –the contemporary opera Z–, Evangelatos is pitting herself against this major work of the operatic repertoire, applying her signature directorial approach with a view to shedding light on the dark and conflicted character that is Rigoletto. The production stars the internationally acclaimed Greek soloists Dimitris Tiliakos, Christina Poulitsi, Dimitris Paksoglou, Petros Magoulas, and Mary-Ellen Nesi.
Conductor: Lukas Karytinos
Director: Katerina Evangelatos
Sets: Eva Manidaki
Costumes: Alan Hranitelj
Choreographer – Movement coach: Patricia Apergi
Lighting: Eleftheria Deko
Chorus master: Agathangelos Georgakatos
Duke of Mantua: Dimitris Paksoglou
Rigoletto: Dimitris Tiliakos
Gilda: Christina Poulitsi
Sparafucile: Petros Magoulas
Maddalena: Mary-Ellen Nesi
With the participation of the Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists of the GNO.
As part of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2022. Conductor: Lukas Karytinos. Director: Katerina Evangelatos. Cast: Dimitris Paksoglou, Dimitris Tiliakos, Christina Poulitsi, Petros Magoulas and more.
Pre-sale: Greek National Opera box office, Athens Festival Epidaurus box office, aefestival.gr & viva.gr
From 1851, when the work debuted in Venice, right down to today, Rigoletto has won the applause of audiences in their thousands across the world and has justly been hailed as one of the best-loved operas of all time. With his Rigoletto, Verdi opened a new chapter in his career as a composer, presenting a work with its own distinct identity that was also more open to experimentation, with its sudden shifts between formal melody and dramatic recitative ensuring that the action unfolds at lightning speed.
The story tells of Gilda, daughter of the hunchbacked court jester Rigoletto, and her love for the dissolute Duke of Mantua, who introduces himself to her in the guise of a poor student. To take his revenge on the Duke for seducing his daughter, Rigoletto plots his murder. On discovering her father’s plans, Gilda decides to save her beloved by taking his place and sacrificing her own life.
The Greek National Opera commissioned Katerina Evangelatos –theatre director, Artistic Director of the Athens Epidaurus Festival, and one of the most promising artistic voices of the new generation– to direct this production of Rigoletto. Following on from her first successful collaboration with the GNO –the contemporary opera Z–, Evangelatos is pitting herself against this major work of the operatic repertoire, applying her signature directorial approach with a view to shedding light on the dark and conflicted character that is Rigoletto. The production stars the internationally acclaimed Greek soloists Dimitris Tiliakos, Christina Poulitsi, Dimitris Paksoglou, Petros Magoulas, and Mary-Ellen Nesi.
Conductor: Lukas Karytinos
Director: Katerina Evangelatos
Sets: Eva Manidaki
Costumes: Alan Hranitelj
Choreographer – Movement coach: Patricia Apergi
Lighting: Eleftheria Deko
Chorus master: Agathangelos Georgakatos
Duke of Mantua: Dimitris Paksoglou
Rigoletto: Dimitris Tiliakos
Gilda: Christina Poulitsi
Sparafucile: Petros Magoulas
Maddalena: Mary-Ellen Nesi
With the participation of the Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists of the GNO.
As part of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2022. Conductor: Lukas Karytinos. Director: Katerina Evangelatos. Cast: Dimitris Paksoglou, Dimitris Tiliakos, Christina Poulitsi, Petros Magoulas and more.
Ticket Details
VIP 100€, 85€ • Zone Α΄ 60€ • Zone Β΄ 55€ • Zone C΄ 45€ • Persons with Disabilities 15€ • Upper Tier 25€ • Multi-Child Families 55€, 50€, 40€, 20€ • Children 42,50€, 15€ • Unemployed 30€, 27,50€, 22,50€, 12,50€ • Students/ Art School Students/ Group 15€ • Special Price 50€, 42,50€, 30€, 27,50€, 22,50€, 12,50€Pre-sale: Greek National Opera box office, Athens Festival Epidaurus box office, aefestival.gr & viva.gr