Plaza Pessôa: The Plaza Ensemble sets the poetry of Fernando Pessoa to music
27 March 2016
Sun 21:00 (EMILIOS RIADIS HALL M2)
Tickets: 12€, 8€ (pupils - students - unemployment card holders)
Plaza Pessôa: The Plaza Ensemble sets the poetry of Fernando Pessoa to music. The Plaza Ensemble, accompanied by Elsa Mouratidou and the actor Tassos Papanastassiou, will perform a number of compositions, songs and improvisations, musically interwoven with poems and texts by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, presented in a combination of theatrical performance and audiovisual collage.
With the diverse poetic personalities of Pessoa as a starting point, the concert programme includes Portuguese fados, nuevo tango, cinematic compositions, Mediterranean music, music by Manos Hadjidakis, contemporary musical works and improvisation.
Plaza Ensemble:
Thanassis Bililis piano
Akis Archontis violin
Kostas Tsougras accordion
Yiannis Polymeneris double bass, mandolin, guitar
Elsa Mouratidou vocals
Poems recited by Tassos Papanastassiou
Sun 21:00 (EMILIOS RIADIS HALL M2)
Tickets: 12€, 8€ (pupils - students - unemployment card holders)
Plaza Pessôa: The Plaza Ensemble sets the poetry of Fernando Pessoa to music. The Plaza Ensemble, accompanied by Elsa Mouratidou and the actor Tassos Papanastassiou, will perform a number of compositions, songs and improvisations, musically interwoven with poems and texts by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, presented in a combination of theatrical performance and audiovisual collage.
With the diverse poetic personalities of Pessoa as a starting point, the concert programme includes Portuguese fados, nuevo tango, cinematic compositions, Mediterranean music, music by Manos Hadjidakis, contemporary musical works and improvisation.
Plaza Ensemble:
Thanassis Bililis piano
Akis Archontis violin
Kostas Tsougras accordion
Yiannis Polymeneris double bass, mandolin, guitar
Elsa Mouratidou vocals
Poems recited by Tassos Papanastassiou