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The Fire

Musical Drama in One Act, with Prologue and Seven Scenes. Text by Maro Papadimitriou, theatrical adaptation by Yorgo Sicilianos.

Φωτιά Μουσικό δράμα σε μία Πράξη, Πρόλογο και επτά Σκηνές Κείμενο Μάρως Παπαδημητρίου Θεατρική προσαρμογή Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου έργο 42

Catalogue No.: YSC84

Status: Completed

Opus: 42

Genre: Musical Drama

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Number of Movements: 8

Movement Titles:

Prologue: The Dance of the Flames (choreographic picture)
Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Scene IV
Scene V
Scene VI
Scene VII

Instrumentation:

2222 – 4231, Celesta, Timpani, Percussion (3 Performers: Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Triangle, Clapper, Suspended Cymbal, Cymbals, Large Gong, 5 Temple Blocks, Woodblock, Snare Drum, Snare Drum without Snares, Bass Drum, Maracas, Flexatone), Strings, Characters: Man (baritone), Woman (mezzo-soprano), Old Beggar (tenor), Jester (tenor), Wiseman (baritone), Oracle (bass), High Priest (bass), Crowd (mixed choir), Men (tenors and basses or baritones and basses), Dancers, Offstage voices (four male and one female voice).

Written in: Athens

Date: September 1, 1978

Duration: 00:45:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Clarinet II Part	Digital scan of the Clarinet II part.	8	PDF	View or Download
2	Double Bass Part	Digital scan of the Double Bass part.	8	PDF	View or Download
3	Flute I Part	Digital scan of the Flute I part.	10	PDF	View or Download
4	Flute II Part	Digital scan of the Flute II part.	10	PDF	View or Download
5	Full Score	Digital scan of the full score.	124	PDF	View or Download
6	Horn in F I Part	Digital scan of the Horn in F I part.	8	PDF	View or Download
7	Horn in F II Part	Digital scan of the Horn in F II part.	10	PDF	View or Download
8	Horn in F III Part	Digital scan of the Horn in F III part.	8	PDF	View or Download
9	Horn in F IV Part	Digital scan of the Horn in F IV part.	8	PDF	View or Download
10	Oboe I Part	Digital scan of the Oboe I part.	11	PDF	View or Download
11	Oboe II Part	Digital scan of the Oboe II part.	8	PDF	View or Download
12	Percussion I Part	Digital scan of the Percussion I part.	7	PDF	View or Download
13	Percussion II Part	Digital scan of the Percussion II part.	7	PDF	View or Download
14	Timpani Part	Digital scan of the Timpani part.	7	PDF	View or Download
15	Trombone I Part	Digital scan of the Trombone I part.	8	PDF	View or Download
16	Trombone II Part	Digital scan of the Trombone II part.	7	PDF	View or Download
17	Trombone III Part	Digital scan of the Trombone III part.	7	PDF	View or Download
18	Trumpet I Part	Digital scan of the Trumpet I part.	8	PDF	View or Download
19	Trumpet II Part	Digital scan of the Trumpet II part.	6	PDF	View or Download
20	Tuba Part	Digital scan of the Tuba part.	7	PDF	View or Download
21	Viola Part	Digital scan of the Viola part.	11	PDF	View or Download
22	Violin I Part	Digital scan of the Violin I part.	23	PDF	View or Download
23	Violin II Part	Digital scan of the Violin II part.	19	PDF	View or Download
24	Bassoon I Part	Digital scan of the Bassoon I part.	10	PDF	View or Download
25	Bassoon II Part	Digital scan of the Bassoon II part.	8	PDF	View or Download
26	Celesta Part	Digital scan of the Celesta part.	4	PDF	View or Download
27	Cello Part	Digital scan of the Cello part.	14	PDF	View or Download
28	Choir Part	Digital scan of the Choir part.	38	PDF	View or Download
29	Clarinet I Part	Digital scan of the Clarinet I part.	10	PDF	View or Download
30	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material. [Unavailable]		PDF
31	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.		PDF
32	Full Score	Scan of the full score. [Unavailable]		PDF
33	Reduction Score	Scan of the score reduction. [Unavailable]		PDF
34	Plot Summary	Scan of the plot summary. [Unavailable]		PDF

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		The Fire	Maro Papadimitriou	Poem		View

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		Interview with Eleni Petassi	Interview	1981	Greek		View
2		Modern Music in Greece Today	Lecture	1991	Greek		View

Books

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Publication Year	Type	Category	Language	Pages	Item Page
1		Yorgos Sicilianos	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, Nikos B. Tsouchlos	Benaki Museum	2007	Musicology	Edited Volume	Greek & English	Test	View
2		Yorgos Sicilianos (1920–2005): One Hundred Years Since His Birth.	Minas I. Alexiadis, Katerina Levidou, Lorenta Rammou, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, Iakovos Steinhauer, Valia Christopoulou	University of Athens	2021	Musicology	Edited Volume	Greek		View

Articles & Papers

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation	Publication Year	Language	Remarks	Item Page
1		Fire: How a Poem Becomes an Opera	Maro Papadimitriou	Independent	2017	Greek		View
2		The Fire: An Opera by Yorgos Sicilianos	Minas I. Alexiadis	Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	2021	Greek		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	December 20, 1987	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Dimitris Agrafiotis (conductor), Spyros Sakkas (Man), Yolanda Di Tasso (Woman), Yorgos Stafetas (Old Beggar), Konstantinos Paliatsaras (Jester), Lazaros Tselepidis (Wiseman), Nikos Kapetas (Oracle), Ahilleas Tsantalos (High Priest), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (director, choreographer), Rena Georgiadou (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, Greek National Opera Choir	The Fire, Op. 42
2	December 23, 1987	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Dimitris Agrafiotis (conductor), Spyros Sakkas (Man), Yolanda Di Tasso (Woman), Yorgos Stafetas (Old Beggar), Konstantinos Paliatsaras (Jester), Lazaros Tselepidis (Wiseman), Nikos Kapetas (Oracle), Ahilleas Tsantalos (High Priest), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (director, choreographer), Rena Georgiadou (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, Greek National Opera Choir	The Fire, Op. 42
3	December 26, 1987	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Dimitris Agrafiotis (conductor), Spyros Sakkas (Man), Yolanda Di Tasso (Woman), Yorgos Stafetas (Old Beggar), Konstantinos Paliatsaras (Jester), Lazaros Tselepidis (Wiseman), Nikos Kapetas (Oracle), Ahilleas Tsantalos (High Priest), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (director, choreographer), Rena Georgiadou (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, Greek National Opera Choir	The Fire, Op. 42
4	December 30, 1987	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Dimitris Agrafiotis (conductor), Spyros Sakkas (Man), Yolanda Di Tasso (Woman), Yorgos Stafetas (Old Beggar), Konstantinos Paliatsaras (Jester), Lazaros Tselepidis (Wiseman), Nikos Kapetas (Oracle), Ahilleas Tsantalos (High Priest), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (director, choreographer), Rena Georgiadou (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, Greek National Opera Choir	The Fire, Op. 42
5	January 3, 1988	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Dimitris Agrafiotis (conductor), Spyros Sakkas (Man), Yolanda Di Tasso (Woman), Yorgos Stafetas (Old Beggar), Konstantinos Paliatsaras (Jester), Lazaros Tselepidis (Wiseman), Nikos Kapetas (Oracle), Ahilleas Tsantalos (High Priest), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (director, choreographer), Rena Georgiadou (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, Greek National Opera Choir	The Fire, Op. 42
6	April 16, 1994	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Elias Voudouris (conductor), Tassis Christoyannis (Man), Yolanda Di Tasso (Woman), Yorgos Stafetas (Old Beggar), Paul Zachariadis (Jester), Giannis Tselepidis (Wiseman), Pavlos Maropoulos (Oracle), Christos Amvrazis (High Priest), Kostas Ferris (director), Pavlos Mantoudis (set designer, costume designer), Isidoros Sideris (choreography)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, Greek National Opera Choir	The Fire, Op. 42
7	April 24, 1994	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Elias Voudouris (conductor), Tassis Christoyannis (Man), Yolanda Di Tasso (Woman), Yorgos Stafetas (Old Beggar), Paul Zachariadis (Jester), Giannis Tselepidis (Wiseman), Pavlos Maropoulos (Oracle), Christos Amvrazis (High Priest), Kostas Ferris (director), Pavlos Mantoudis (set designer, costume designer), Isidoros Sideris (choreography)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, Greek National Opera Choir	The Fire, Op. 42

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Ahilleas Tsantalos	Bass (voice)	Greek National Opera	View
2	Christos Amvrazis	Bass (voice)	Greek National Opera	View
3	Dimitris Agrafiotis	Conductor, Violinist, Composer	Schwäbisches Sinfonie-Orchester (Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen - WPR)	View
4	Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi	Choreographer, Director	Greek National Opera	View
5	Elias Voudouris	Conductor	Greek National Opera Orchestra	View
6	Giannis Tselepidis	Baritone	Greek National Opera	View
7	Greek National Opera Choir	Choir	Greek National Opera	View
8	Greek National Opera Orchestra	Orchestra	Greek National Opera	View
9	Isidoros Sideris	Director, Choreographer	Greek National Opera	View
10	Konstantinos Paliatsaras	Tenor	Greek National Opera	View
11	Kostas Ferris	Director		View
12	Lazaros Tselepidis	Baritone	Greek National Opera	View
13	Nikos Kapetas	Bass (voice)	Greek National Opera	View
14	Paul Zachariadis	Countertenor	Greek National Opera	View
15	Pavlos Mantoudis	Painter, Set Designer, Costume Designer	Greek National Opera National Theatre of Northern Greece	View
16	Pavlos Maropoulos	Bass (voice)	Greek National Opera	View
17	Rena Georgiadou	Set Designer, Costume Designer	Greek National Opera National Theatre of Greece National Theatre of Northern Greece	View
18	Spyros Sakkas	Baritone, Composer	Greek National Opera	View
19	Tassis Christoyannis (Christoyannopoulos)	Baritone	Greek National Opera	View
20	Yolanda Di Tasso	Mezzo-Soprano	Greek National Opera	View
21	Yorgos Stafetas	Tenor	Greek National Opera	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 109-114
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 45, 46, 74, 76, 91, 132, 134, 136, 141
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 9, 99, 274
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 161, 162, 348
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), 22, 79, 81, 164, 186, 206, 207, 247
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, 49, 118, 116

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