ΟΜΑΔΑ Oper(O)

TEAM

Oper(O) was created in 2008 in Athens, by Erifili Giannakopoulou. The team consists of a core of acclaimed young artists, of different media -direction, art, musical composition, choreography, design- that come together for the creation of each performance.

Oper(O) is one of the first independent opera groups in Greece who dealt with opera and lyrical theatre, in search of a new, contemporary language; their aim being the creation of new performances and theatrical experiences about where opera and art in general stand in today’s society.

Oper(O)’s first performance was Bizet’s Carmen, performed for the first time in Greece in the street, from the island squares to the centre of Athens. In 2010, in accordance to the group’s initial quest, to remove opera from the buildings and institutions that it is associated with, they created a performance of Verdi’s Traviata, in the atrium of Benaki Museum. The same year, they created an interactive operatic performance in the centre of Athens, in the balconies of a neoclassical building, entitled 2 in 1. In 2011 along with the acclaimed artist Manolis Charos, they created a performance based on Aesop’s Fables, in the Greek National Theatre. The same year, wanting to comment on opera’s stereotypes, they returned with their own original work, Fiammifero, in the atrium of Benaki Museum, and later on touring it around Greece. They next appeared in Megaron Athens Concert Hall in 2012, with an interactive performance for children, based on Bizet’s Carmen. Subsequently the group created a performance about Travel for TEDx Academy Athens, with the participation of seventy singers, actors and musicians, based on Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, by Mahler. In 2013 in order to introduce opera to children, they wrote an operatic fairytale and performed it in Athens squares and Benaki Museum. In September of the same year they created Waiting For Night, an operatic monologue based on works by Samuel Beckett, in Tehnis Theatre. In 2014 they participated in the exhibition Traces of Commerce, with an art installation and performance about Fear.

In January of 2018, they return with an original opera, based on the myth of Orpheus; a coproduction with the Greek National Opera, in the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera, in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre.