The Olympic Flame in the Palamas house – 2024-04-24 11:28:12

The Olympic Flame will pass through Patras on April 25, on its journey to Paris for the 33rd Olympiad. During its passage, it will honorably stand in the house where the creator of the Olympic Anthem, Kostis Palamas, was born. A small honoring ceremony is organized this day, at 4.30 pm, at 241 Corinthou Street, by the “Kostis Palamas” House of Letters.

The full program of the event is as follows:

PART I

• «1492 THE CONQUEST OF PARADISE»
Composition : VANGELIS PAPATHANASSIOU
Edited by JOHN GLENESK MORTIMER
“POLYFONIKIS” PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

• “Dreamy Hymn” KOSTI PALAMA
Recitation: IRINI KARAGIANNI, mezzo soprano

• Greeting Assoc. District Governor HARAL. BONANOU

• 7th OLYMPIAN”
“In Diagoras the Rhodium”, winner in boxing PINDAROS
Recitation: IRINI KARAGIANNI – mezzo soprano

• “HELLAS” ;
From the cycles of quatrains: KOSTI PALAMA
Composition: MICHALIS VOURTSIS
Interpretation: IRINI KARAGIANNI, mezzo soprano
Piano: LOUSI CHRISTODOULOU

• “The light of Olympia” TAKIS DOXA
Recitation: IRINI KARAGIANNI, mezzo soprano

• Speech by the head of the Greek Olympic Mission at the XXXIII Olympic Games in Paris,
PETROS SYNODINOS

• “Triumphant PEOPLE”
Address: STAVROS SOLOMOS
MIXED CHOIR “POLYPHONIKIS”
Recitation: MICHALIS ANTONELLOS Percussion: GIORGOS LAMBRAKOS

PART II

ARRIVAL OF OLYMPIC FLAME at 17:00
• Arrival and torch relay stop
• Price performance
• Flame touch of next torchbearer

“OLYMPIC ANTHEM”
Lyrics: KOSTIS PALAMAS
Composition: SPYRIDON SAMARAS
“POLYFONIKIS” PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
MIXED CHOIR “POLYPHONIKIS”
Departure of the second torchbearer

PART III

• Bilingual Recitation of the Olympic Anthem
Reading in French: GEORGIA PETROPOULOU- CONAN,
Director of the French Institute of Patras
Recitation in Greek: IRINI KARAGIANNI, mezzo-soprano

• “ARIA OF THE OLYMPIAD”
From the opera: “ALEXANDER THE GREAT”
Libretto: ALEKOS DAFNOMILIS
Composition: IOSIF BENAKIS
Interpretation: IRINI KARAGIANNI, mezzo soprano
Piano: LOUSI CHRISTODOULOU

• Speech by Mrs. MARIETTE KARAMANLI,
Member of the French National Assembly
Vice-president of the Hellenic-French Friendship Committee
Presentation of the French Institute

• Choreography by students of the French Institute of Patras,
on the 2024 Olympic Games song,
by SOPRANO, “Le Coach”

• «CHARIOTS OF FIRE»
Composition : VANGELIS PAPATHANASSIOU
Edited by JOHN GLENESK MORTIMER
“POLYFONIKIS” PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

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