{"id":7664,"date":"2026-11-09T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/2026\/11\/09\/paradise-lost-morfe-%ce%b4emonion\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:56:09","slug":"paradise-lost-morfe-%ce%b4emonion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/en\/2026\/11\/09\/paradise-lost-morfe-%ce%b4emonion\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Lost \u2013 Morf\u00e9 \u0394emon\u00edon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The embrace of the Serpent with the Devil, Eve&#8217;s dream of the loss of Paradise, Nature&#8217;s lament for the Bacchic massacre of Pentheus. John Milton&#8217;s extreme iconoclastic and practically blasphemous Renaissance language and Euripides&#8217; archetypal Bacchic figures of extravagance are turned into amorphous sound clouds, chained grooves, sonic confluences, and collisions. The words&#8217; semantics are substituted by their acoustic and visual imprint.<br \/>\nA transcendent vocal trio, a voluminous choral mass, interactive lights and projections, along with the electronically processed sound of a classical harmonium and a double bass, set up an audiovisual machine of verbal transformations. The machine will be rammed by a violent voice rooted in extreme metal music, which will first demolish and then set new terms of balance within the ensemble, seeking a space to coexist.<br \/>\nNikos Galenianos\u2019&nbsp;work<strong> <\/strong>is a peculiar oratorio, based on the allegorical power of two universally significant texts. Audience members are immersed in a succession of conflict, violence, hovering, and acceptance, free to interpret the facts through their own mental connections and conscience.<br \/>\nParadise Lost \u2013 Morf\u00e9 \u0394emon\u00edon &#8211; Nikos Galenianos<br \/>\nMusic theatre \u2022 New production \u2022 A GNO Alternative Stage commission<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalopera.gr\/en\/alternative-stage\/es-music-theatre\/item\/8123-paradise-lost-morfe-emonion\">https:\/\/www.nationalopera.gr\/en\/alternative-stage\/es-music-theatre\/item\/8123-paradise-lost-morfe-emonion<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradise Lost \u2013 Morf\u00e9 \u0394emon\u00edon &#8211; Nikos Galenianos &#8211; Music theatre \u2022 New production \u2022 A GNO Alternative Stage commission<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[73,117],"class_list":["post-7664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-118","tag-eng","tag-117"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contemporary.culture.gov.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}