THE OPERA "PROMETHEUS BOUND" BY PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS AT LA SORBONNE PARIS (Amphithéâtre Richelieu)

UNESCO CLUB OF PIRAEUS & ISLANDS

Paris-Sorbonne University 

Théâtre Démodocos, Service culturel de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, Festival des Dionysies

PROMETHEUS BOUND BY AESCHYLUS

Music by PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS

Directed by VASILIS ASIMAKOPOULOS

“The Masterpiece Tragedy of Aeschylus Comes to Paris”

Dedicated to the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens        

Paris-Sorbonne University 

 MONDAY 4 APRIL 2016

Amphithéâtre Richelieu (Sorbonne)

17 Rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, France 

By Invitation Only / Time 8:30pm 

Prometheus: Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass 
Io: Irene Konsta, soprano

Ocean/Hermes: Philip Modinos, tenor 
Via/Oceanide/Athena: Kassandra Dimopoulou, mezzo

Victoria Kiazimi, piano 

Presentation: Ioannis Maronitis, president of UNESCO Club of Pireaus & Islands

Amphithéâtre Richelieu (Sorbonne)

Panagiotis Karousos, composer

Prometheus: Vasilis Asimakopoulos

Panagiotis Karousos is a renowned Greek-Canadian composer who brings to his music the philosophy and spiritualism of the Greek classics. He did many concerts in Canada and USA with his Symphony No.1 “Liberty”, and Symphony No.2 “Olympic” with Astoria Symphony, the FACE Symphony Orchestra, the OSJL-L Symphony Orchestra and the Monteregie Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestros Silas Nathaniel Huff, Andre Gauthier, Theodora Stathopoulos and Luc Chaput. The Piano Concerto was presented with pianist Nathalie Joncas under UNESCO auspices in the Montreal Popular Concerts series in Montreal’s Maurice Richard Arena to an audience of 5000 people. The Olympic Flame choir was presented with the Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of Gunst wat'n Kunst at Hague, Holland, with maestro R. Pylarinos. The opera Alexander the Great presented in Montreal at the Montreal Notre Dame Basilica, in Chicago Illinois conducted by David Stech, in North Carolina Theatre under the direction of Grant Gilman, and in Toronto at P.C. Ho Theater Cultural Center of Toronto with the Sneak Peak Symphony Orchestra of Toronto University and soloists under the direction of maestro Victor Cheng. The opera Prometheus represented in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington DC. From 2013 he did major presentations of Prometheus in Ancient Greek Theaters (Epidaurus, Messina, Ancient Agora), and the National Archeological Meseum of Greece. In 2014 Prometheus presented with bass Vasilis Asimakopoulos in the United Nations and in Mamie Fay auditorium of New York under the auspices of UNESCO. His Symphony No.4 “Earth” premiered with City of Athens Symphony Orchestra with maestro Eleftherios Kalkanis. 

Few words about the opera “Prometheus Bound” by Panagiotis Karousos. 

Io: Irene Konsta

Based on Aeschylus tragedy “Prometheus Bound” by Panagiotis Karousos first premiered in Montreal, Canada in 1994 and played until 2000 in French in the translation of Professor Jacques Bouchard Director of Modern Greek Literature and Neohellenic Studies of the University Center of Montreal. In 1998 the work presented in Los Angeles at Beverly Hills City Hall. In 2008 represented in New York and Washington in English under the direction of maestro Grant Gilman, and American soloists from the opera of New York. The opera impressed with its high lyricism. In Greece “Prometheus Bound” presented at the Municipal Theatres of Athens, Salamina, Argostoli, Lixouri, Ithaca, Cholargos, Chalkis, Corynth, at the Concert Hall of the Greek Writers, in “Parnassos” Concert Hall, in the Old Parliament House, at the Theatre Veakeio, and the Theatre “Jenny Karezi”. In 2013 bass Vasilis Asimakopoulos did unforgettable presentations of the opera as a director and leading role at the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus, the Ancient Theatre Ekklesiasterion (Odeon) in Ancient Messene, the Ancient Agora at the Ancient Site of Acropolis, and the National Archeological Museum of Greece, and performed the main arias of the opera at “Parnassos” Concert Hall conducted by E. Kalkanis. Recently the opera Prometheus Bound represented in New York, Queens and United Nations Headquarters, Manhattan under the auspices of UNESCO Club of Pireaus and Island.