Name: Eleni
Start: 2022-12-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-02-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater Erfurt

Organization

Stage director

Guy Montavon

Set designer

Éric Chevalier

Dramaturge

Larissa Wieczorek

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Valeria Mudra

Milia

Baritone

Siyabulela Ntlale

Vangelis

Contralto

Astrid Thelemann

Nàkova

Soprano

Jessica Rose Cambio

Elena

Tenor

Brett Sprague

Nicholas (adult)

Candela Gotelli

Kanda

Bass

Kakhaber Shavidze

Judge

Máté Sólyom-Nagy

Leader of the Rebels

Tristan Blanchet

Lukas Ziàras

Takahiro Sasaki

A rebel

Seon Gyung Hwang

Conductor

Myron Michailidis

Child vocalist

Inike Albus

Nicholas (child)

Theater Erfurt

English

Eleni

Erfurt

Germany

Public

German

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Off-Stage Artist

On-Stage Artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Alto

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

The opera "Eleni" by Nestor Tylor and Fergus Currie celebrates its world premiere on December 3, 2022 at the Erfurt Theater. Rehearsals are in full swing. In an interview, composer Taylor and librettist Currie talk about their work on the play, which Guy Montavon is directing. Based on real events, Taylor's oratorio-like opera tells the story of a selfless mother who, in the midst of the Greek civil war, becomes a tragic heroine out of love for her children.

Teaser III | Eleni | Theater Erfurt

Nestor Taylors oratorienhafte Oper erzählt die auf wahren Begebenheiten beruhende Geschichte einer selbstlosen Mutter, die inmitten eines brutalen Kriegs aus Liebe zu ihren Kindern zur tragischen Heldin wird.

Während der 1940er Jahre tobt in Griechenland ein Bürgerkrieg zwischen kommunistischen Partisanen und rechtsgerichteten Regierungstruppen. Unglücklicherweise liegt das nordgriechische Bergdorf Lia, eine festgefügte, streng patriarchalisch geordnete und abergläubische Gemeinschaft, in der die junge Bäuerin Eleni Gatzoyiannis allein fünf Kinder großzieht, auf dem Marschweg der kommunistischen Kämpfer. Die Dorfbewohner müssen fortan um ihr Leben fürchten: Wer den Partisanen nicht zu Diensten ist, wird gefoltert und hingerichtet. Lebensmittel werden konfisziert, Dorfbewohner zur Arbeit gezwungen und nicht nur Männern, sondern auch den halbwüchsigen Töchtern Elenis sowie anderen jungen unverheirateten Frauen droht die Zwangsrekrutierung. Um ihre beiden Ältesten vor diesem Schicksal zu bewahren und zu verhindern, dass die jüngeren Geschwister in kommunistische „Bruderstaaten“ zwangsverschickt werden, begehrt Eleni gegen den Roten Terror auf. Sie organisiert die Flucht ihrer Kinder nach Amerika. Doch dafür muss sie, wie auch hunderttausende andere griechische Zivilisten, mit dem Leben bezahlen.

Berührende Arien und Duette, wirkungsvolle Chornummern und erschütternde Szenen: Basierend auf dem autobiografischen Bestseller von Nicholas Gage (geb. Nikolaos Gatzoyiannis), dem jüngsten Sohn der Protagonistin, ist Eleni ein packendes Bekenntnis gegen die Schrecken des Krieges und die damit verbundenen Gräueltaten.

Deutsch

Nestor Taylor's oratorio-like opera tells the true story of a selfless mother who becomes a tragic heroine in the midst of a brutal war for the love of her children.

During the 1940s, a civil war raged in Greece between communist partisans and right-wing government troops. Unfortunately, the northern Greek mountain village of Lia, a tight-knit, strictly patriarchal and superstitious community where young peasant woman Eleni Gatzoyiannis is raising five children alone, lies on the marching path of the communist fighters. From then on, the villagers had to fear for their lives: those who did not serve the partisans were tortured and executed. Food is confiscated, villagers are forced to work and not only men but also the teenage daughters Elenis and other young unmarried women are threatened with forced recruitment. To save and prevent her two eldest from this fate, that the younger siblings are forcibly deported to communist “fraternal states”, Eleni protests against the Red Terror. She organizes her children's escape to America. But for this, like hundreds of thousands of other Greek civilians, she has to pay with her life.

Touching arias and duets, effective choral numbers and harrowing scenes: Based on the autobiographical bestseller by Nicholas Gage (born Nikolaos Gatzoyiannis), the youngest son of the protagonist, Eleni is a gripping confession against the horrors of war and the atrocities associated with it.

Eleni by Taylor, N., Sat 03 Dec 2022, From (2022/2023), Directed by Guy Montavon,, Conductor Myron Michailidis, Theater Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

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