Karagiozis Rigoletto

This shadow opera, created by the versatile comedian, director and librettist Dimitris Dimopoulos together with the experienced shadow puppeteer Alexandros Melissinos,unexpectedly casts Karagiozis as the protagonist of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece Rigoletto. The performance uniquely combines traditional Greek shadow theater with excerpts from the opera, based on the original libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, performed in Greek by opera singers Manos Kokkonis, Yannis Selitsaniotis και and Dimitra Kotidou, accompanied on piano by Markos Kotsias..