Monday, May 30, 2022 | 19.30
Alternative Stage GNO
Free admission via online pre-registration
The Lullaby Project returns for the fifth year running, in partnership with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
This year and after two years without live concerts, we are very happy to welcome the audience again to celebrate together the greatest love of all. In this year’s edition of The Lullaby Project, we continue to expand the spectrum of parenthood beyond gender and biological ties, and celebrate the love for children in its entirety, featuring special musical stories that highlight a host of topical social issues, positively “intervening” in the relations that spawned them and sending out a strong message of visibility and inclusion, with love and music.
A same-sex couple dreaming of a world of equal opportunities for the child they have adopted, young dads, pre-trial detainees in Korydallos prison anxious to see their children grow up, a mother raising her four children alone living below the poverty line, a modern working mom, a mother raising three children one of whom was born with quadriplegia due to medical negligence, a mother of a minor child in Avlona prison, a young mother from a refugee camp, experiencing the trauma of sexual abuse trying to connect with the baby she later gave birth to but also social workers caring for unaccompanied minors, trying to restore their childhood and confidence in an adult world that failed to protect them, are the protagonists of the eight stories of this year’s Lullaby Project.
Highly acclaimed Greek composers and songwriters Anser, Elias Vamvakousis, Pavlos Pavlidis, George Κasavetis, Andriana Babali, Theodore, Roxani Chatzidimitriou, and Giannis Christodoulopoulos attempt to transcribe feelings, desires and hopes into notes, donning the children’s dreams, and those of their parents for them, in music. These original musical stories will be presented to the public on Monday, May 30, at 19:30, at the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera, in another musical celebration of the greatest love of all.
The innovative community program Lullaby Project was created in December 2011 in New York City by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI), bringing new mothers and pregnant women from vulnerable social environments together with musical artists, in order to jointly write and sing lullabies to their babies. Since then, these songs have been performed at the famous concerts of The Lullaby Project, which have featured celebrated artists such as mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, Fiona Apple, Natalie Merchant, Catherine Zeta-Jones, et al.
In pursuing its effort to promote social inclusion through music, Carnegie Hall has been working together with El Sistema Greece since 2018 in the implementation of the Greek edition of The Lullaby Project, with El Sistema Greece innovating and expanding the concept beyond maternity and biological ties, to include stories of parental love in all its forms, lovingly dedicated to all the children of the world. The SNFCC has joined El Sistema Greece on this beautiful musical journey since the very first year, 2018, supporting its effort to celebrate the love for children through the universal power of the lullaby.
Monday 30/05 | 19.30
ALTERNATIVE STAGE GNO
Free admission via online pre-registration
Presentation: Eliana Chryssikopoulou
Video editing: Alexandros Merkouris
Musical direction: José Ángel Salazar Marín
Choir direction: Vaia Papagiannopoulou
With the participation of members of El Sistema Greece Youth Choir
