Antigone, part 3 ~ Who is Antigone?
After analyzing and describing Oedipus, the name that creates a worldwide “Ah…! Oedipus!” it is time now for the one for who Mikis Theodorakis wrote an opera, next to Medea and Elektra: * * Antigone...
View ArticleAntigone, part 4 ~ Mikis Theodorakis’s Opera “Antigone”
* Libretto The opera “Antigone” is the third of the...
View ArticleAntigone, part 5 ~ Antigone’s love, Haemon, performed by Zachos Terzakis...
* Haemon The play Antigone tells about Thebes, a principal...
View ArticleLes six Éluard “Medieuses” ~ Paul Éluard / Mikis Theodorakis
* Paul Éluard Paul Éluard was a French poet born as Eugène Émile Paul...
View ArticleMikis Theodorakis and the poet Tasos Livaditis
* Tasos Livaditis Tasos Livaditis (Athens, 1922-1988) was a Greek poet....
View ArticleMikis Theodorakis and the amazing unforgettable Greek actor Manos Katrakis
* Introduction The name “Manos Katrakis” was new to me when I read it yesterday, preparing my post about the Greek poet Tasos Livaditis. Obviously also he had been sent away to the isle of torture:...
View ArticleMikis Theodorakis: Finding Greece in His Music
* This book (2007) interrogates the construction of modern Greek identity in Theodorakis’ music. After examining the composer’s musical and political life in connection with Greece’s modern history...
View ArticleMikis Theodorakis and Manos Hadjidakis in New York
Of course the title must not be understood...
View ArticleGrigoris Lambrakis, symbol of democracy
* Grigoris Lambrakis (April 3, 1912 – May 27, 1963) was a Greek politician, physician, track and field athlete, and member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Athens. Today,...
View ArticleA sceptical view on “Recycling Medea”
* Introduction A new film has been created: “Recycling Medea”….,...
View ArticleTheodorakis the Symphonist
The recently published video: “Tatiana Papageorgiou plays Mikis Theodorakis’ Piano Concerto 2 ‘Helikon’ (I)” offers all listeners a “new” Theodorakis composition. The video information is surprising:...
View ArticleNew links
A new page has been added: “Links” It can be found in the browser of the website, next to “Home”, “News”, and more. A lot of links could be added, but all Mikis Theodorakis-websites or fan-websites...
View ArticleIn “trash”: 55 posts
As explained on the homepage: I am cleaning up the blog. All posts from the start, January 2010 till half of 2013, about Mikis Theodorakis and his politics and acts, restarted in about the same time as...
View ArticleIf you remember my dream
“If you remember my dream” is the translation of the song title: “Αν θυμηθείς τ΄ όνειρό μου”. The song, created in 1958, is one of the results of the collaboration of both Nikos Gatsos, who wrote the...
View ArticleSymphony No. 2: “The Earth’s Song”
The music of a symphony is not for all ears. It depends a little bit on the composer. Beethoven’s symphonies are much more easy listening than Mahler’s symphonies. Symphonies are comparable with books,...
View ArticleLetters from Marusia
Mikis Theodorakis wrote the soundtracks for a lot of films, mostly very well known, often used in concerts, but the film-music of “Actas de Marusia” is hardly used. Maybe therefore the title sounds...
View ArticleTeresa Rebull ~ Les Campanes De La Resurrecció
Teresa Soler i Pi, better known by her stage name Teresa Rebull (Sabadell, Barcelona, September 21, 1919 – Banyuls-sur-Mer, (Pyrénées-Orientales), France, April 15, 2015), was a Catalan Spanish...
View ArticleChristina Cünne
. Christina Cünne was born on November 18, 1932 in Houtigehage, Friesland, Netherlands as Trijntje Kunje De Vries. She is an actress, known for Dutch productions as “De Anna” (1983), “Rooie Sien”...
View ArticlePoios ti Zoí mou …
“Mikis Theodorakis – Poios ti Zoí mou …” is a theatrical musical performance about the life and work of Mikis Theodorakis. One of the performances took place on the island Makronissos on September 14,...
View ArticleSonatina for Piano, “Vivo”
In the list with compositions I found this title. It was composed in 1942. There is no earlier year mentioned. It is categorised as “Chamber Music”. So, this must be the first official composition. In...
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