Greek National Opera: Invites teenagers to take part in an opera

The Greek National Opera welcomes teenagers into the magical satellite of opera done its acquisition and societal programs. It invites teenagers aged 14 to 18, from antithetic schools and neighborhoods crossed Attica, to articulation the sixth rhythm of the intercultural opera incubator Co-OPERAtive, with the extremity of gradually creating and presenting an archetypal music-theatre accumulation successful May 2026 astatine the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera astatine the SNFCC.

Each year, the acquisition programme hosts a radical of 30 young radical of antithetic nationalities—Athenians and underage asylum seekers—in a bid of play workshops with distinguished artists from the fields of music, theater, and dance. Co-OPERAtive offers participants a abstraction for creator expression, freedom, and collaboration, wherever music, speech, and movement, the mundane and the imaginary, conscionable successful originative ways. During the workshops, which tally from November to May, the participants make a communal creator connection and co-create—with the guidance of experienced professionals from the arts—a portion of euphony theatre that carries their ain dependable and the charm of magical realism.

In this year’s cycle, the originative squad (director, musician, choreographer) volition gully inspiration from abbreviated stories by Gabriel García Márquez, diagnostic examples of magical realism. Magical realism, with its peculiar coexistence of the mundane and the fantastic, offers fertile crushed for euphony theater, arsenic it allows speech, music, and question to conscionable successful a multilayered signifier universe. The images arising from Márquez’s texts springiness commencement to affluent sonic and bodily metaphors, giving euphony an integrated and inseparable relation successful the storytelling.

Some of the themes that volition animate the workshops are: the beingness of the fantastical successful mundane beingness and however it sparks dreams and fantasies; the question “what if the unbelievable abruptly entered our lives?”; the powerfulness of corporate imagination; the acquisition of otherness—of the “Other”—as some a situation and an entity of wonderment and anticipation for change, done our brushwood with the strange; the coexistence of the earthly with the transcendent. Themes that bespeak the world of a multicultural radical of young radical and that lend themselves to imaginative play, philharmonic experimentation, and corporate storytelling—shedding airy not lone connected Márquez’s satellite but besides connected their own, chartless imaginary one.

In addition, those who instrumentality portion successful the programme volition person the accidental to be wide rehearsals and performances of opera, euphony theater, and ballet, to interact with professionals of the Greek National Opera, to get to cognize up adjacent each the stages of opera production, and yet to contiguous their ain enactment connected the Alternative Stage of the GNO.

Participation does not necessitate specialized cognition successful music, theater, oregon dance. However, immoderate erstwhile amateur oregon nonrecreational engagement successful these arts volition beryllium taken into relationship during the exertion review, portion the basal requirements are enthusiasm, interest, and availability connected the days and hours of the workshops, rehearsals, and the last performance.

This year’s creator squad of facilitators/trainers volition dwell of: Nikos Galenianos (composition, euphony instruction), Sofia Vgenopoulou (directing, acting instruction), Julia Diamantopoulou (text, dramaturgy), Pavlos Thanopoulos (sets, costumes), Eleni Zachopoulou (head of theatre workshops), and Antigone Gyra (choreography, caput of creation workshops).

Interested parties tin taxable their exertion for information until October 19, 2025, exclusively done the signifier recovered HERE.

Closing
Workshop start: November 24, 2025
Workshop days & hours: each Monday, 17:30–20:30
Final rehearsals: May 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 2026, 16:00–21:00 – Alternative Stage of GNO astatine the SNFCC
Performance date: Sunday, May 31, 2026 – Alternative Stage of GNO astatine the SNFCC

Information: [email protected], 213 088 5752 / 213 088 5755 (Monday–Friday, 10:00–18:00)