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2009
Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall Program
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Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall Performance time: 21:00
June
Date
Performance
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Tickets
08-06-09
Purgatorio theater performance by the Societas Raffaelo Sanzio conducted by Romeo Castellucci
With: Irena Radmanovic, Davide Savorani, Sergio Scarlatella, Pier Paolo Zimmermann, Juri Roverato
The second part of Romeo Castellucci’s trilogy inspired by the Divine Comedy, Purgatorio is enacted on a surreal set which alludes to the formal severity which Dante bestows on this transitional place of waiting and transformation. The dramaturgy – a diptych – hinges on a violent event that leaves an indelible mark on a bourgeois family’s everyday life. Inhabiting the shadow-lands between the literal and the metaphorical, between actuality and the dream, the production employs cinematic techniques to leave the audience unsure what is real and what is not.
Age guidance 18+. Contains material that is disturbing.
Alexandra Trianti Hall
Tickets: Prime circle: 40 € - zone A: 30 € - zone B: 20 € - zone C: 10 € - students: 5 €
Booking started
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09-06-09
Purgatorio theater performance by the Societas Raffaelo Sanzio conducted by Romeo Castellucci
With: Irena Radmanovic, Davide Savorani, Sergio Scarlatella, Pier Paolo Zimmermann, Juri Roverato
The second part of Romeo Castellucci’s trilogy inspired by the Divine Comedy, Purgatorio is enacted on a surreal set which alludes to the formal severity which Dante bestows on this transitional place of waiting and transformation. The dramaturgy – a diptych – hinges on a violent event that leaves an indelible mark on a bourgeois family’s everyday life. Inhabiting the shadow-lands between the literal and the metaphorical, between actuality and the dream, the production employs cinematic techniques to leave the audience unsure what is real and what is not.
Age guidance 18+. Contains material that is disturbing.
Alexandra Trianti Hall
Tickets: Prime circle: 40 € - zone A: 30 € - zone B: 20 € - zone C: 10 € - students: 5 €
Booking started
Sold out
10-06-09
Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki, Agnus Dei (transciption for strings)
Polymorphia (1961) for 48 strings
Concerto for viola and orchestra (transcribed for cello and orchestra, 1983)
Soloist: Danjulo Ishizaka, cello
Symphony no. 2 (1979-1980)
Hall of The Friends of Music
Tickets: Prime circle: 40 € - zone A: 30 € - zone B: 20 € - students: 5 €
Le Cercle de l’ Harmonie conducted by Jérémie Rhorer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Magic Flute, KV 620 overture
Concerto for Clarinet in A Major, KV 622. Soloist: Nicola Boud, basset-horn
Requiem, KV 626
With: Cornelia Götz, soprano, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, mezzo-soprano, Stefano Ferrari, tenor, Andreas Wolf, bass, and the Les Éléments choir.
Hall of The Friends of Music
Tickets: Prime circle: 40 € - zone A: 30 € - zone B: 20 € - students: 5 €
Giuseppe Verdi, Requiem (1873-1874)
bye the ERT - National Symphonic Orchestra conducted by: Lukas Karytinos
With:
Alexia Voulgaridou, soprano; Chariklia Mavropoulou, mezzo-soprano; Mario Zeffiri, tenor; Christoforos Stamboglis, bass, the Athens Mixed Municipal Choir and the ERT Chorus.
Hall of The Friends of Music
Tickets: Prime circle: 40 € - zone A: 30 € - zone B: 20 € - students: 5 €
Rosas - The Song
A performance by: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Ann Veronica Janssens, Michel François.
Danced by and created with: Mark Lorimer, Bostjan Antoncic, Sandy Williams, Michael Pomero, Matej Kejzar, Pieter Ampe, Carlos Garbin, Simon Mayer, Mikael
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker reveals her multifaceted insight once again in the Greek première of her most recent creation. De Keersmaeker is more than an architect of movement, a choreographer par excellence; she is also a master when it comes to reinvigorating dance form through dialogue with different spheres of artistic endeavor. Here, she collaborates with two Belgian visual artists, Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François, in a work for nine men and a woman. Its focus: the human body in a dramatically changing environment.
Alexandra Trianti Hall
Tickets: Prime circle: 40 € - zone A: 30 € - zone B: 20 € - zone C: 10 € - students: 5 €
Rosas - The Song
A performance by: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Ann Veronica Janssens, Michel François.
Danced by and created with: Mark Lorimer, Bostjan Antoncic, Sandy Williams, Michael Pomero, Matej Kejzar, Pieter Ampe, Carlos Garbin, Simon Mayer, Mikael
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker reveals her multifaceted insight once again in the Greek première of her most recent creation. De Keersmaeker is more than an architect of movement, a choreographer par excellence; she is also a master when it comes to reinvigorating dance form through dialogue with different spheres of artistic endeavor. Here, she collaborates with two Belgian visual artists, Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François, in a work for nine men and a woman. Its focus: the human body in a dramatically changing environment.
Alexandra Trianti Hall
Tickets: Prime circle: 40 € - zone A: 30 € - zone B: 20 € - zone C: 10 € - students: 5 €
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Online, using your credit or debit card
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In person, at Festival Box Office
Advance booking begins three weeks prior to each event.
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ticket purchases and not ticket reservations.
Tickets can be purchased on-line until 2 pm on the day
of the performance.
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according to price and availability. You may also buy season
tickets, where available. Tickets can be collected from
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courier service is also available (at a charge of 4€ per
call out).
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2. TELEPHONE BOOKINGS
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A. Call Centre Sales Personnel
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until 2 pm on the day of the performance.
Telephone Booking
Centre: +30 210 - 32 72 000
Opening Hours: Through a telephone operator: 09:00-21:00
daily
B. Using the Interactive Voice Response (IVR):
Advance booking by IVR ends one day prior to the performance.
Telephone
Booking Centre: +30 210 - 32 72 000
Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In both cases, tickets can
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from the event venues. A courier service is also available
(at a charge of € 4 per call out).
3. 'IN-PERSON' BOOKINGS: BOX OFFICES
Addresses and Opening Hours:
Central Athens
39, Panepistimiou Street, inside the Pesmazoglou Arcade
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday: 08:30-16:00, Saturday 09:00-14:00
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Dionysiou Aeropagitou Street (pedestrianised) -
Makriyianni
Opening Hours: 09:00-14:00 and 17:00-20:00 Daily
Ancient Epidaurus Theatre
Argolis Prefecture, Peloponnesus
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Friday - Saturday 09:30-21:30
Other Venues
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Useful
information: 1.
It is not allowed:
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To enter the theatre after the beginning of the performance
except during the
intermission if there is one.
• To smoke and to consume food and drink in the theatre.
• To take photographs with or without flash, to audio-
or video-record the performance.
• To wear shoes with pointed heels.
• To bring children younger than six to the theatre.
• To tip the ushers.
• To return tickets.
2.
During the performance cellular phones must be turned off.
3. If a performance is cancelled, there will be an announcement
regarding the refund.
4. Ticket sales are computerized. Therefore there can be no
double bookings.
5. The program of the performances may change. Any changes
will be announced in time by the
press.