Greek & Mediterranean folk songs – Cyprus, Crete & Asia Minor with Angelika Christodoulou & Althaia Ensemble
Traditionally, one concert of the festival is dedicated to folk music of various regions of the former Byzantine Empire (Asia Minor, Cyprus, Thrace, Constantinople, and more). This time, Greek and Mediterranean songs from Cyprus, Crete, the Greek islands, and Asia Minor will be performed by Cypriot singer Angelika Christodoulou and the Althaia Ensemble.
Althaia Ensemble:
Angelika Christodoulou (Cyprus) - vocals
Barbora Špádová (Czech Republic) - vocals, flutes
Giorgos Kalamakis (Greece) - oud, vocals
Petr Mastroiany (Czech Republic) - percussion
About the Archaion Kallos festival:
Once again, the Philokallia association invites you to the Archaion Kallos International Festival of Orthodox Music. Do not miss this beautiful spiritual and musical experience. In its literal sense, the Greek expression “archaion kallos” means “ancient beauty,” but in the vocabulary of the Holy Fathers of the Eastern Christian Church, “archaion kallos” speaks of a certain archetype, an “original beauty,” that is to say, the beauty which man beheld in Paradise and which he experienced after Creation. The Philokallia Association (philokallia, a word of Greek origin meaning “love of the beautiful”) gave this name to the first and only festival of Orthodox music in Prague because the association perceives every act in sacred music, whether of composition or interpretation, as a kind of conscious or unconscious search for this pristine beauty, the Archaion Kallos.
The festival is held under the auspices of
the Minister of Culture, Oto Klempíř,
the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic, H.E. Mr. Dinos Konstantinou,
the Mayor of the Prague 2 Municipal District, Jan Korseska
Important:
- No intermission
- Dress code: casual
- Program subject to change
Visit the Prague opera houses´ interiors.
