FULL Dimitri Platanias Recital Athens 2020
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Dimitri Platanias Recital
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Athens, Greece
- Recorded: December 6, 2020
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Dimitri Platanias
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Sophia Tamvakopoulou, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: GNO TV
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: GNO TV FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
As the Ionian Islands were never occupied by the Ottomans, they uninterruptedly followed the development of European culture. Theatrical activity has been evidenced on Corfu already since the third decade of the 16th century, and an organised theatre and melodrama life since the first decades of the 18th century. For reasons of proximity, musical bonds were closer with Italy and especially Venice and Naples: Ionian composers were studying in Italian cities and Italian opera troupes were visiting the Ionian Islands.
In his recital, the distinguished Greek baritone Dimitri Platanias, accompanied by Sophia Tamvakopoulou on the piano, will perform typical songs by great Ionian composers: the Corfiots Napoleon Labelet, Spyridon Xyndas, Spyridon-Filiskos Samaras and Lavrentios Kamilieris (Lorenzo Camilieri), as well as Theodoros Spathis, son of the Cephalonian composer Spyridon Spathis. The lyrics are penned by celebrated poets such as Ioannis Polemis, Dionysios Solomos, Georgios Drosinis and Alexandros Pallis.