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Manolis Kalomiris Mother's Ring [greek classical opera]

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MANOLIS KALOMIRIS (1883–1962)
MOTHER’S RING [TO DACHTYLIDI TIS MANAS] (1917/1939)

Music drama in three acts based on a play by Yannis Kambissis
Verse by Agnis Orfikos (pen name of the poet Yorgos Stefopoulos)

First – World Premiere Performance: 8 December 1917
Municipal Theatre, Athens
New Musical Company of Elli Afentaki
Conducted by Manolis Kalomiris
Directed by Spyros Trihas
Choir master: Ilias Priftis
Sets by Ioannis Ampelas
Choreography by Εlνira Weil

Berlin Premiere (in greek): 10 February 1940
Der Ring der Mutter

RECORDING: September & October 1983, Digital
Conductor: YANNIS DARAS
Bulgarian National Chorus, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Bulgaria.

CAST
Yannakis: Zachos Terzakis - tenor
Erofili & Mountain Nereid: Maria Koromantzou - soprano
Mother & Old Woman: Joan Sfekas-Karvelas - mezzo soprano
Sotiris: Andreas Kouloumbis - baritone
Kyriakos: Frangikos Voutsinos - bass
Dame Destiny: Tiha Genova - soprano
Maid: Claudia Athanassova
Nymph: Denca Valkova - soprano

Disc 1:
1. Act I: Ov - Sofia PO/Yannis Daras
2. Act I: Hey! Guardian Of Your Dreams.../Mother, Like Balsam Your Words.../Held In Your Arms... - Joan Sfekas-Karvelas/Zahos Terzakis
3. Act I: Mother, I Know I'll Die.../Ah, If I Could, O My Soul - Zahos Terzakis
4. Act I: ealth And Happiness.../There's The Bell... - Frangiskos Voutsinos
5. Act I: Master, When You Were Born/I Came To See You... - Maria Koromantzou
6. Act I: O Beauty, As You Appeared.../Here I Am, Trembling.../In Your Dream's Shady Garden... - Zahos Terzakis/Maria Koromantzou
7. Act I: Shall We Sing?/My Children Wait A Moment! - Andreas Kouloumbis/Frangiskos Voutsinos
8. Act I: And Now, Mother, That We Are Alone.../Yes, Mother, Tell Us The Story... - Zahos Terzakis/Andreas Kouloumbis
9. Act I: With Heavy HeartI Shall Tel You.../Tell Us The Curse, Mother.../Easy, You Dreamer... - Joan Sfekas-Karvelas/Zahos Terzakis
10. Act I: Take My Son, O Sleep... - Andreas Kouloumbis/Joan Sfekas-Karvelas

Disc 2:
1. Act II: Beginning/I, Who Have So Long Stood... - Joan Sfekas-Karvelas
2. Act II: Pass Through Swift Shuttle.../Who Is This Who Has Seized The Golden Apple? - Bulgarian National Chor/Methodi Matakiev/Tiha Genova
3. Act II: Here! Awake Mythical Worlds./I Have A KingdomFour Times High.../...Bathe Me In Eternal Light - Tiha Genova/Maria Koromantzou
4. Act II: You Are The Mountain Nereid? - Zahos Terzakis
5. Act II: Who Are You Who Stands Confronting Destiny... - Maria Koromantzou
6. Act II: And Now, Nereid, Show Me The Way... - Zahos Terzakis/
7. Act II: Daylight Begins To Break.../I'm Spent, My Nereid, Wait A Little.../Erofili, Erofili! - Bulgarian National Chor/Methodi Matakiev/Zahos Terzakis
8. Act III: Ov: The Dawning Of Christmas Day - Sofia PO
9. Act III: Today The Virgin/Father, I Don't Know Why Today I Feel Afraid.../O Woe Is Me, What Black... - Bulgarian National Chor/Methodi Matakiev/Zahos Terzakis/Joan Sfekas-Karvelas
10. Act III: Who Is This?/I Was Sunk In Deep Sleep... - Maria Koromantzou/Andreas Kouloumbis
11. Act III: Mother, Didn't You Hear Me?/But Alas, The Untouched-Mountain Peak... - Zahos Terzakis
12. Act III: My Eyes Close.../Yannaki!!! - Zahos Terzakis


Manolis Kalomiris is today considered the father of the Greek national school of composition. One of the most prolific Greek composers, he considerably enriched the musical heritage of modern Greece with his work, thus creating a unique point of reference. His contribution to the creation of a distinctly Greek symphonic sound has been very definite. He started his musical education in Athens and Constantinople and completed it in Vienna between 1901 and 1906, he settled permanently in Athens, in 1910. Kalomiris founded two of the most important Conservatories in Greece as well as the Union of Greek Composers, and served for a time as director of the National Opera. His large output includes 3 symphonies, and 5 operas and hundreds of songs.

“Mother's Ring” by Manolis Kalomiris is a greek opera full of tenderness. Kalomiris began writting the work in 1915 and completed it almost after one and a half year. Inspiration for the author stood his acquaintance with the poet Kambissis, who died very young. Kalomiris knew the mother of the undeservedly lost poet and was inspired by her for this work that develops during christmas days at the greek countryside.

The plot of the opera develops at Christmas' Eve in a Greek village. Giannakis the singer is heavily sick. His mother tries to give him courage, while at the same time decides to sell her ancestors' ring, despite the wish and the curse that she must never disembody it, in order to cure her child.

Related Links:
h**p://www.kalomiris.org/

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