Project on Visual Arts | THE ARTIST ON THE COMPOSER
First commission to artist Nikos Navridis
Music and Visual Arts Cycle in collaboration with NEON Organisation

Conducted by Giorgos Ziavras

The project THE ARTIST ON THE COMPOSER is a long-term collaboration between the Greek National Opera and NEON focusing on the relationship between visual arts and opera.

The project brings together leading contemporary visual artists and filmmakers with live orchestral performance. Through a newly commissioned work, each artist responds to the work of a classical composer stripped of the usual operatic traditions and storytelling; open to audiences that may not have engaged with opera before.

Unfolding inside an opera house emptied of sets and costumes, this abstract interaction is strengthened by what is left out, allowing the artists’ individual responses to push musical performance and audience in new and different directions.

The first commission is to Greek artist Nikos Navridis.