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Medea

incidental music

Μήδεια

Catalogue No.: YSC74

Status: Completed

Opus: 33

Genre: Incidental Music

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Number of Movements: 9

Movement Titles:

Prologue
Parodos
Stasimon A’
Stasimon B’
Stasimon Γ’
Stasimon Δ’
Medea’s Lament
Stasimon Ε’
Stasimon ΣΤ’

Instrumentation:

Flute, Tuba, Tape, and Choir

Written in: Athens

Date: February 1, 1973

Duration: Unknown

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Digital Format
1	Full Score	Scan of the full score. [Unavailable]	PDF
2	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score. [Unavailable]	PDF
3	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material. [Unavailable]	PDF

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		Medea	Euripides	Tragedy		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	July 21, 1973	Ancient Theater of Philippi	Philippi - Krinides	Greece	Philippi - Thasos Festival	State Theatre of Northern Greece (Κ.Θ.Β.Ε.)	Kostis Mihailidis (director), Vasilis Vasileiadis (Set Designer - Costume Designer)	State Theatre of Northern Greece (Κ.Θ.Β.Ε.)	Medea, Op. 33
2	July 22, 1973	Ancient Theater of Philippi	Philippi - Krinides	Greece	Philippi - Thasos Festival	State Theatre of Northern Greece (Κ.Θ.Β.Ε.)	Kostis Mihailidis (director), Vasilis Vasileiadis (Set Designer - Costume Designer)	State Theatre of Northern Greece (Κ.Θ.Β.Ε.)	Medea, Op. 33
3	August 1, 1973	Ancient Theater of Thassos	Limenas, Thassos Island	Greece	Philippi - Thasos Festival	State Theatre of Northern Greece (Κ.Θ.Β.Ε.)	Kostis Mihailidis (director), Vasilis Vasileiadis (Set Designer - Costume Designer)	State Theatre of Northern Greece (Κ.Θ.Β.Ε.)	Medea, Op. 33
4	August 12, 1973	Ancient Theatre of Dodona	Dodoni	Greece	Dodoni Festival	State Theatre of Northern Greece (Κ.Θ.Β.Ε.)	Kostis Mihailidis (director), Vasilis Vasileiadis (Set Designer - Costume Designer)	State Theatre of Northern Greece (Κ.Θ.Β.Ε.)	Medea, Op. 33

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Kostis Mihailidis	Stage Director	National Theatre of Greece	View
2	State Theatre of Northern Greece	Theatre Company		View
3	Vasilis Vasileiadis	Painter, Set Designer, Costume Designer		View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 90-91
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 8, 99, 273, 291
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 159, 346, 381, 423
Yorgos Sicilianos, "Interview with Kaiti Romanou," in , On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (unpublished manuscript, 2010), original manuscript for the book, copy provided to Anastasios R. A. Mavroudis., 325
Dimitris Agrafiotis, Theodore Antoniou, Tatsis Apostolidis, Valia Christopoulou, Giorgos Demertzis, Popi Eustratiadi, Byron Fidetzis, Gianni Ioannides, Apostolos Kostios, Giorgos Kouroupos, Katy Romanou, Yorgos Sicilianos, Michalis Stathopoulos, Nikos Synodinos, and Nikos B. Tsouchlos. Yorgos Sicilianos: In the Avant-Garde of Contemporary Music [Γιώργος Σισιλιανός - Ο συνθέτης στην πρωτοπορία της σύγχρονης μουσικής]. Edited by Valentini Tselika. (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2007), 21, 50, 87, 91, 95, 186, 200
Kostas Chardas, Giorgos Demertzis, Charis Dimaras, Nikos Maliaras, Giorgos Sakallieros, Nikos B. Tsouchlos, Markos Tsetsos, and Panos Vlagopoulos. Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005 - Anniversary Tribute [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος 1920-2005 Επετειακο αφιερωμα]. Edited by Stephania Merakos and Valia Vraka. (Athens: Friends of Music Association, 2016), 47, 117

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