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La Meurtrière or the triumph of Greek opera

2021-12-09T16:13:42.033Z


CRITICAL - This adaptation of a famous short story by Papadiamantis kicks off the independence bicentennial festivities at the Athens Opera House. It will air on Mezzo on Sunday.


A blood-curdling story.

Music as unique as it is universal.

Borrowing from Western scholarly music, reinvented Greek folklore and even the Orthodox liturgy.

Choirs galore (including children's voices valued as rarely in the opera).

An orchestral writing teeming with expression and colors.

All sprinkled with discreet minimalist touches.

Such is

La Meurtrière

by Giorgos Koumendakis.

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A powerful and poignant work, this adaptation of a short story by Alexandre Papadiamantis from 1903, which the Greeks read at school like the French,

L'Assommoir

de Zola, was composed by the current director of the Greek National Opera in 2013 Its resumption in the new opera hall was therefore one of the events of this season, celebrating the bicentenary of Greek independence.

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For the occasion, the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, made the trip on December 3.

Good proof of the scope of this story too ...

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Source: lefigaro

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