TRIBUTE TO DIMITRIS MITROPOULOS
A miracle in three acts (in concert form) by the City of Athens Symphony Orchestra & Choir.
The City of Athens Symphony Orchestra & Choir presents in concert form one of the rarely performed works, the only opera ever composed by Dimitris Mitropoulos, “Soeur Béatrice“, with a unique cast of singers from Greece and abroad. It is a religious drama (a “miracle” according to the composer) in three acts to a text by the Belgian symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck. The plot is set in a monastery during the 14th century, focusing on Soeur Beatrice’s dilemma between her love for Prince Bellintor and the commitments of monastic life. The French chief musician, Pierre Dumoussaud, will conduct from the podium
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