The educational program with the general title “Transformations” of the National Opera returns on April 1 and 2, 2023 with a two-day musical “letter” workshop for 11- to 14-year-olds, inspired by “Vertheros” of Jules Massenetone of the most popular operas in the French repertoire.

Based on the great opera that tells the story of the dead-end love between the young Werther and Charlotte, participants, starting with the question of how love letters via digital applications differ from the love letters of the 19th century, will be prompted to express through music. The workshop will be implemented by the Rafi Musical Theater Group in collaboration with the accordion soloist Konstantinos Zigeridis, while the assistant professor at the University of Thessaly and poet Marios Hatziprokopiou will also contribute to it.

A few words about the training program “Transformations”

With the “Transformations” program, curated by the Rafi Musical Theater Group in its first collaboration with the Educational & Social Actions of ELLS, children of all ages explore the hidden secrets of opera, the non-obvious ones, digging into the crevices of the notes and of the words to illuminate them in a different way. Through actions that activate their imagination and creative vision, each time illuminating the different, workshops and meetings-discussions with important guests from diverse fields, the participants will sharpen their vision and thinking, while expanding their artistic horizons in from contact with a radical art that eternally praises human freedom.

Submission of participation from 16 to 26 March 2023 exclusively through the form that will be activated on the page of the Lyric Theater