Trailer for 'Winterreise' at the Arts Theatre [GR]

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a performance based on Schubert’s song cycle

Directed by Themelis Glynatsis
Designed by Pantelis Makkas, Eleftheria Arapoglou and Themelis Glynatsis
Costumes by Eleftheria Arapoglou
Video by Pantelis Makkas
Light design by Stella Kaltsou

Piano: Michalis Papapetrou

Performed by Christos Kechris
Thanasis Dovris

Performance dates: 10, 16, 17, 23 and 24 November 2015
All performances start at 9.15pm (run time 80’)
Arts Theatre (Theatro Technis) – Frynichou 14, Plaka, Athens.
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Schubert’s Winterreise (D.911, op.89) is considered to be the ultimate work of the Romantic song-cycle tradition. One of the final compositions of the Austrian composer, based on poems by Wilhelm Müller, Winterreise is one of Schubert’s most enigmatic and melancholic works, and of the entire Austro-German Romantic canon. Having as its core the wandering of a youth who experiences a profound crisis of unrequited love, Winterreise offers the audience an almost theatrical monologue about melancholy, loneliness and death. This monologue is based on fragmentary, intensely subjective impressions of wintry landscapes that in essence reflect the wanderer’s psyche. Having this narrative as a starting-point, the performance will focus on issues of solitude, privacy and depression, as well as of the conscious, almost stubborn, detachment of the individual from any sense of historical reality. After his critically acclaimed performances at the Onassis Cultural Centre (Romanticism: a performance based on Hermann Broch’s “The Sleepwalkers”) and the Athens Festival (Berenice), the theatre director Themelis Glynatsis, considered “one of the most outstanding voices of contemporary Greek theatre”, returns to the theme of wandering and of subjective landscapes that underline his entire artistic output. One of the most talented tenors of his generations, Christos Kechris, meets the up-and-coming actor Thanasis Dovris and renowned young pianist Michalis Papapetrou in a modern, philosophical and highly emotive performance.