We recently connected with Stefanos Koroneos and have shared our conversation below.
Stefanos , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.
I have a long list of projects that are significant for me but if i have to choose one it’s definitely my production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. I am very passionate about interdisciplinary arts. This production does exactly that: it is an interdisciplinary dialog between arts and artworks. Together with my creative team we have created a 90s inspired “glass box” where time is suspended. The characters live and relate to each other through addictions, sex, food and pop culture in Madrid in early 90s. Madrid was dominated by pop and film icons such as Madonna, Duran Duran and my beloved Pedro Almodovar. Together with them some minor, but yet very important public figures such as La Lupe-a Cuban American Bolero singer and Miss Shangay Lily, a pioneer Queer activist and social agitator in Spain’s incipient gay rights movement.
This production opened at Apollon Theater in Ermoupolis, Greece and it’s scheduled to open this summer at the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice, upstate New York and at the Rhodes International Festival in Greece.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I grew up in the South of Greece in a small medieval village of 100 called Areopolis, which translates to : the city of winds. It’s a piece of ancient land. My childhood is full of photos and images of these wild places, and since I have a very photographic memory, these images have been my companions all my life.
I moved to Italy to study architecture and design but somehow i finished up with a 25 long international career as an opera singer. Today, as the Artistic Director of Teatro Grattacielo I have been committed into combining all my passions into one: classical music, opera, design and visual arts.
I am in constant search for new visual artists that use technology to express themselves. I am most interested into bringing this fascinating world into the world of opera.
Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?
Social media, in my view, is all about having a clearly defined story. Great images and a short but meaningful text. For a long time I thought that i could have done it on my own. I was wrong. I have learned in the last two years that it’s best to allow trained professionals to take care of social media. Or you can train yourself of course…
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
My passions….it took me long time to get rid of concepts and beliefs that did not make me happy or did not belong to me.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://grattacielo.org/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teatrograttacielo/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teatrograttacieloNYC
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15434062/admin/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/tgatta
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFGR08clI5Se__XVXwxjO_A
Image Credits
FOTOGRAPHERS: STEFANOS MAMIDIS GUSTAVO MIRABILE TIM CREE