The Leventis Museum’s “Caterina Cornaro goes to the Opera” travels to Thessaloniki, at the Aristotle University’s Teloglion Art Foundation

The exhibition titled “Caterina Cornaro goes to the Opera”, put on by the Leventis Municipal Museum in Nicosia in parallel with a series of supplementing events, having stricken a responsive chord with the Cypriot public, is now travelling to Thessaloniki, to be hosted at the Teloglion Art Foundation of the Aristotle University.

 

In Nicosia, the exhibition was accompanied by lectures, tours and a special operatic performance, presented at the Leventis Museum in June 2015. For the first time in 200 years, arias from the rare libretto of the opera titled «DieKöniginvonCypern/La Reine de Chypre», composed by Fromental Halévy and first staged in 1841, resonated across the Museum’s atrium.

 

In Thessaloniki, the renewed exhibition is enriched by additional exhibits including paintings, gravures, reviews written for the opera, as well as an album with pictures of its set and costumes. Also on display will be other significant exhibits from the Collections of the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia, the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation as well as from the private collections of Michael Zeipekkis and Demetris Michaelides.

 

On the exhibition’s opening day, the 19th of November, the public will have the opportunity to attend a lecture by professor Angel Nicolaou-Konnari, on the DieKöniginvonCypern/La Reine de Chypre opera. The lecture will be followed by an operatic performance featuring arias from the opera. Almost a year after the performance at the Leventis Museum, the arias from Halévy’s rare libretto will resonate once more through the voice of Maria Poyiadji-Fink and the melodic sounds from the piano of professor Michael Schuetze. A special tour will also take place, by Elena Richter, Curator at the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia. The same programme will be repeated on 20 November 2016, with the exhibition running until 30 January 2017.

 

Those lucky to be in beautiful Thessaloniki for the weekend between 19 and 20 November, will have the chance to attend the programme and enjoy a very interesting exhibition. Additionally, for those unable to attend the operatic performance, the Museum has collaborated with the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation in order to have the event broadcast on radio show on CYBC First Programme. CYBC is the official communication sponsor (Cyprus) for the exhibition.  The time and date of broadcasting will be announced soon

 

Sponsor: A.G. Leventis Foundation

Communication Sponsor (Cyprus): CYBC

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