ANDREI: Requiem in eight scenes (Dimitra Trypani) Athens 2022 Greek National Opera
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Andrei: Requiem in eight scenes
- Composer: Trypani Dimitra
- Libretto: Pantelis Boukalas Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Stavros Niarchos Hall at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece, Greek National Opera
- Recorded: September 28, 2022
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Iro Bezou, Irini Bilini-Moraiti, Valia Karagiorga, Giorgos Kasavetis, Marianna Kavallieratos, Dimitra Kokkinopoulou, Nandia Kontogeorgi, Hara Kotsali, Christina Maxouri, Giorgos Nikopoulos, Alexandros Psihramis, Kalliopi Simou, Fotis Siotas, Aliki Siousti, Christos Thanos, Savina Yannatou, Fanis Zachopoulos, Nikos Ziaziaris
- Conductor: Dimitra Trypani
- Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble
- Choreographer: Ermira Goro
- Stage Director: Dimitra Trypani
- Stage Designer: Elena Stavropoulou
- Costume Designer: Nikos Kokkalis
- Lighting Designer: Valentina Tamiolaki
Information about the Recording
- Published by: GNO TV
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, othersubs
- Video Recording from: GNO TV FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Andrei: Requiem in eight scenes, a new work by Dimitra Trypani comes on GNO TV. It is a singular, contemporary funeral liturgy for the great filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, an artist who rendered thoughts and feelings with images of unparalleled beauty and intellectual vigour. The libretto, written by Pantelis Boukalas, enters into discourse with the German text of the Lutheran Requiem Mass, and with fragments of dialogue drawn from the seven feature films made by the Russian artist.
Andrei is classified as a “sound performance” as, according to the composer Dimitra Trypani, it is sound –namely, text and music strictly interconnected through the score– that serves as the overarching narrative mode. Within Trypani’s composition, major roles are played by chromatic heterophonic and polyphonic structures, polystylistic approaches, and body percussion. Additionally, the incorporated polyglottal elements and dialogue snippets drawn from Tarkovsky’s films are inserted into the overall liturgical text by means of collage techniques.
Commissioned by the Greek National Opera, the work is articulated in eight parts: an introductory scene followed by another seven that correspond to the seven sections of the German Requiem Mass text and, moreover, to the seven feature films Tarkovsky made during the course of his short life.
Eighteen acclaimed actors, dancers, and musicians will perform an equal number of on-stage Andrei variants, real-life persons, or key imaginary characters drawn from his seven films. Iro Bezou, Irini Bilini-Moraiti, Valia Karagiorga, Yorgos Kasavetes, Marianna Kavallieratos, Dimitra Kokkinopoulou, Nandia Kontogeorgi, Hara Kotsali, Christina Maxouri, Yorgos Nikopoulos, Alexandros Psychramis, Kalliopi Simou, Fotis Siotas, Alice Siousti, Christos Thanos, Savina Yannatou, Fanis Zachopoulos, and Nikos Ziaziaris all articulate the work’s poetic, cinematic, and musical utterances, either as lone individuals or as a unified “choral” ensemble.
The composer Dimitra Trypani is engaged in the creation of interdisciplinary music performances, using strictly structured polyrhythmic forms and heterophonic patterns as her main media in her approach to both music and speech. She has worked with numerous renowned orchestras, ensembles, and soloists, both in Greece and beyond. She is an associate professor in Music Theory and Composition with Interdisciplinary Practices at the Ionian University’s Department of Music.