The women’s choir CHORES presents a unique concert at the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the National Opera, on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 8:30 p.m. With the participation of the full composition of the choir, CHÓRES proposes a dynamic polyphonic program where famous choral arrangements of Greek and international traditional melodies are intertwined with new transcriptions and compositions, many of them written especially for the ensemble by distinguished contemporary composers.

After an explosive year full of exciting performances in iconic venues such as the Zappeion Megaro, the Panathenaic Stadium, the Stoa of Attalus and the Acropolis Museum and major events such as the Opening Ceremony of the Olymp’Arts Olympiad, the Olympic Flame Ceremony and the 2nd Worship Music Festival of ELS, the choral ensemble CHÓRES returns to the Stavros Niarchos Hall and to the core of its core repertoire.

With over one hundred and twenty female participants on stage, CHÓRES approach these diverse compositions with the fresh and unconventional eye that characterizes their steadily rising career, illuminating traditional musical material in contemporary, unexpected ways and highlighting the unique vocal abilities of their members.

The concert program includes works by the composers Michalis Adamis, Simelas Emmanuilidou, Yiannis Ioannidis, Zoltan Kondai, Alexandros Drakos Ktistakis, Nikos Kypourgos, Marthas Mavroidis, Alki Baltas, Laios Bartos, Margaritas Papadimitriou, Christos Samaras and Filippos Tsalachouris, as well as traditional compositions .

The artistic direction is Marina Satti, the ensemble is directed by its permanent chief musicians Irini Patsea, Christina Poupalo and Simela Emmanuilidou and the choreographer Stavros Alexandros Iqbal oversees the kinesiology.

Free entry with tickets, which will be distributed from Friday 31 May 2024, at 12.00, exclusively via ticketservices.gr.

A few words about the choral ensemble CHÓRES

The women’s choral group CHÓRES is an artistic nursery created by Marina Satti with the aim of cultivating the skills of its members in music, dance and acting as well as shaping them as artists with a broad education and social perception.

CHÓRES experiments on the connection of different aesthetic and cultural elements, transcending geographical and age boundaries and utilizing various expressive means. They now number more than 150 women aged 15-60 who practice on a regular basis in the entire spectrum of the performing arts. Their eclectic repertoire includes traditional Greek songs, songs from the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean as well as original compositions and arrangements of traditional songs by Greek and foreign composers, several of which were written especially for CHÓRES.

They work with her National Opera as a guest ensemble and have taken part in numerous concerts, performances and choral festivals in Greece and abroad. In the context of the institution “2023 Eleusis Cultural Capital of Europe”, Mysterio_96 DAUGHTERS was organized, an educational and performance activity that included the formation of a local choral ensemble, regular meetings and workshops, as well as artistic actions in the city of Eleusis culminating in the appearance of total at the Opening Ceremony in February 2023.

In April 2024 the choir took part in the Olympic Flame Handover Ceremony of the 33rd Summer Olympic Games “Paris 2024” at the Panathenaic Stadium, singing the Olympic Anthem in collaboration with the National Symphony Orchestra of ERT