Name: Frossini
Start: 2021-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Stavros Niarchos Hall

Organization

Chorus master

Chrissanthos Alissafis

Libretto

Elisavetios Martinengos

Score Editor

Yannis Tselikas

Singer

Dionysios Sourbis

Ali-Pascia

Yannis Christopoulos

Muctar

Vassiliki Karayanni

Frossini

Tassos Apostolou

Ignazio

Julia Souglakou

Hamko

Haris Andrianos

Tahir

Theodore Aivaliotis

Monks

Pavlos Sampsakis

Conductor

Ilias Voudouris

Greek National Opera

Orchestra

GNO Orchestra

Others

GNO Chorus

Athens

Greece

SNFCC

Main Stage

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Stavros Niarchos Hall

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hornist

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Mandoline Player

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Viola da gamba

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Viola Pomposa Player

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Choir

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Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Countertenor

Tenor

Soprano

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Μια σπουδαία όπερα του Παύλου Καρρέρ, «Η Κυρά Φροσύνη», παρουσιάστηκε για πρώτη φορά από την Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή στις 3 Οκτωβρίου στην Αίθουσα Σταύρος Νιάρχο...

Frossini Carrer

In one of his letters to Andreas Laskaratos from October 1859, Aristotelis Valaoritis writes about his first big poetic composition Lady Frossini that was published that same year: “I got the idea in my head to offer my nation a poem with a Greek character. […] I mostly wanted it to be historical, so that it could be beneficial, at least to this respect.”

Just nine years later, Zakynthiot poet Elisavetios Martinegkos (1832-1885) adapts Valaoritis’ Lady Frossini into a libretto titled Frossini, which is afterwards set to music by Zakynthiot composer Paolo Carrer (1829-1896). It would be his second “national opera” following Markos Votzaris. Frossini was presented at the “Apollon” Theatre on Zakynthos on 16 November 1868 and toured to Patras, Athens, Alexandria and other Greek centres.

Apart from the historic events that took place in January 1801 portrayed in the opera –the illicit love affair of Euphrosyne Vasileiou (Frossini) with Ali Pasha’s son Muhtar and her tragic death for not succumbing to Ali’s amorous advances–, Carrer gives special emphasis to the relationship between the father and the son (Ali-Muhtar), who are rivals for the love of the same woman, as well as to Frossini’s switch and repentance, when she decides to abandon her illicit affair and go back to her children at the cost of her own life: “I want to be buried in the grave as a fearless, repented, free Greek woman!” says she in her long aria in Act II. In a wider context, the figure of the martyr / heroine Frossini stands for Hellenism and Christianity, while the figure of the ruler Ali symbolises all the misfortunes associated with the Ottoman empire and Islamism.

Regardless of whether Carrer knew about Valaoritis’ letter to Laskaratos or not, they shared the same vision: an opera with a national content and a historical character. Based on the contemporary musical idiom of the Italian operatic language –especially Verdi’s language during the Risorgimento (the struggle for Italy’s political unification)–, the composer will shape his personal style and lay the groundwork for the emergence of Greek opera.

In an effort to enrich its historical archive and with the support of the grant from the SNF, the GNO managed to purchase the only extant manuscript score of Paolo Carrer’s opera Frossini as well as its bilingual reduction for voice and piano from a private collection.

English

Frossini by Carrer, Od (2021/2021), Dirigent Ilias Voudouris, Stavros Niarchos Hall, Athens, Greece

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