FULL KASSANDRA (Pablo Ortiz / Sergio Blanco) Athens 2024 María Castillo de Lima

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: KASSANDRA   
• Composer: Ortiz Pablo   
• Libretto: Sergio Blanco    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Greek National Opera Alternative Stage, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece  
• Recorded: September 2024
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: María Castillo de Lima
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Musicians from the Ergon ensemble  
• Stage Director: Diana Theocharidi, Alexandros Efklidis  
• Stage Designer: Gonzalo Córdova  
• Costume Designer: Luciana Gutman  
• Lighting Designer: Gonzalo Córdova  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: GNO  
• Date Published: 2024  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, othersubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  The GNO Alternative Stage opened the 2024/25 season with the daring, contemporary chamber opera Kassandra by the distinguished Argentinian composer Pablo Ortiz and a libretto by the renowned Uruguayan dramaturg Sergio Blanco. Kassandra is an international co-production with the Centro de Experimentación of the prestigious Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. On 27, 28, and 29 September 2024, Kassandra met the Athenian audience at the GNO Alternative Stage at the SNFCC, a month after its world premiere at Teatro Colón, where it caused a sensation, receiving rave reviews. As the largest newspaper in Argentina, Clarín, characteristically wrote: “Kassandra’s legend takes on a new dimension in an exceptional opera filled with emotional power and tension”. The transgender soprano Maria Castillo de Lima, a phenomenal vocal talent, took on the leading role, with direction from Diana Theocharidis and Alexandros Efklidis. With the participation of musicians from Ergon Ensemble, under the baton of Nicolas Vassiliou.

  The GNO Alternative Stage and the Centro de Experimentación of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires commissioned Pablo Ortiz to adapt Sergio Blanco’s monologue Kassandra into an opera. The leading character, Kassandra, is destined to wander at night on the outskirts of a nameless city in search of clients. Through the music, she blends the terrible with the sublime, the profane with the sacred, the contemporary with the ancient, and the myth with the present. She also pairs the dramaturg’s aesthetic with the composer’s, illustrating their joint work on the ever-shifting interplay of past, present, and future. Although so far apart, these universes are included in a single space, according to the directorial concept of Diana Theocharidis and Alexandros Efklidis.

  “I am not a man, I am not a woman, I am Kassandra”

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