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Yorgos  Sapountzis

Yorgos Sapountzis

Yorgos Sapountzis ist bildender Künstler und Bühnen- und Kostümbildner. Er wurde in Athen geboren und studierte am Institut für technologische Erziehung sowie an der Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in der Klasse von George Lappas. Von 1998 bis 2002 war er Bühnenbildner und Regieassistent am Diplous Eros Theater, bevor er 2002 für sein Studium an der Universität der Künste Berlin in der Klasse von Rebecca Horn nach Berlin zog. Yorgos Sapountzis erhielt den Villa Romana-Preis und war Stipendiat von kunstzeitraum München. Als Gastprofessor für Zeitbezogene Medien unterrichtet er an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg.

In Einzelausstellungen waren seine Arbeiten unter anderem in der Barbara Gross Galerie München, der Eleni Koroneou Gallery Athen, bei Freymond-Guth fine Arts Zürich, in der Arnolfini Gallery Bristol, im Kunsthaus Glarus, der Kunsthalle Lingen der Ursula Blickle Stiftung in Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim und im Westfälischen Kunstverein in Münster zu erleben. Daneben war er unter anderem an Gruppenausstellungen wie „It Looks Like Up To Me“ in der Eleni Koroneou Gallery Athen, „ANTIDORON. Die Sammlung des EMST im Museum Fridericianum“ im Rahmen der documenta 14, „Viva Arte Viva“ bei der 57. Biennale in Venedig, „PRODUKTION. made in germany drei“ der Kestner Gesellschaft im Kunstverein Hannover sowie Sprengel Museum Hannover, „Idiopolis“ bei State of Concept Athen, „After the explosion… you hear the light“ im 3 137 Athen oder „The Kids Want Communism | Part 3“ im MoBY in Tel Aviv beteiligt.

Zudem war er an Theaterprojekten wie der Neuproduktion von LYSISTRATA von Aristophanes 2016 am Griechischen Nationaltheater Athen als Bühnenbildner beteiligt und realisierte Performanceprojekte wie „Trial & Error“ im Kunstraum Innsbruck, „Schalen der Zeit / Ist das Jetzt Zeit?“ bei den 15. Internationalen Schillertagen Mannheim oder die Reihe „After Electricity“, unter anderem zu erleben bei Art Basel Statements, im Micamoca Berlin, im Griechischen Nationaltheater Athen und im Nationalmuseum für zeitgenössische Kunst Athen. Yorgos Sapountzis lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

Foto © Andreas Lux

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23
DEC

Advents-Verlosung: Das 23. Fensterchen

This CD of Massenet's HÉRODIADE has only been on sale since 22 November 2024, making it our very latest, brand-new release, which we are delighted to be giving away in our Advent calendar today. If you would like to be among the winners of one of the two CD boxes, please send an e-mail with the subject ‘The 23rd window’ to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

Few female figures have inspired the art of the late 19th century as enduringly as the Judean princess Salome, who according to legend was responsible for the beheading of John the Baptist. In France in particular, writers, painters and composers were fascinated by this subject matter and its blend of Orientalism and decadence, of eroticism and opulence. Jules Massenet also took up the subject: however, at the centre of his HÉRODIADE, first performed in Brussels in 1881, is not, as it was a quarter of a century later in Richard Strauss's work, the royal child-woman Salome, but her mother Hérodias, the wife of King Herod. And while Strauss's opera was to become the first major success of the 20th century, Massenet's is a celebration of the grand opera of the 19th century, with pathos, posturing and a Hollywood-style script. With a queen who, out of jealousy, causes the death of her own daughter, a mysterious star diviner, a prophet who is not immune to the feelings of love, a weak-willed ruler and a heroically loving princess, Massenet offers a multitude of striking operatic figures and gives the plot a dazzling ‘colour locale’ by incorporating Hebrew and oriental motifs.

For the concert performance by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the great French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine returned to the house where she celebrated successes as Carmen, Marguerite in LA DAMNATION DE FAUST and, most recently, as Fidès in LE PROPHÈTE. The performances of HÉRODIADE on 15 and 18 June 2023 were recorded.

On this CD, conducted by our First Permanent Guest Conductor Enrique Mazzola, you can hear Etienne Dupuis (Hérode), Clémentine Margaine (Hérodiade), Nicole Car (Salomé), Matthew Polenzani (Jean), Marko Mimica (Ph anuel), Dean Murphy (Vitellius), Kyle Miller (High Priest), Sua Jo (A Young Babylonian), Thomas Cilluffo (Voice from the Temple), the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and our chorus under the direction of Jeremy Bines.



Closing date: 23 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 27 December 2024. The CDs will then be sent by post. There is no right of appeal.