Great Ladies sing... on the Orient Express Music Wagon
An inspired musical-theatrical performance with Artemis Matafia
Every Thursday in the Music Wagon Orient Express, singer and actress Artemis Matafia presents a musical-theatrical performance-tribute to prominent female personalities of the international and Greek pentagram.
Mercedes Sosa, Edith Piaf, Milva, Nana Mouskouri, Rosa Eskenazi, Maria Callas, Luz Casal, Marika Ninou, Domna Samiou, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Lara Fabian, Barbra Streisand, Sofia Vembo, Fairuz, Flery Dantonaki, Sotiria Bellou, Jenny Vanou, Vicky Moscholiou, Billie Holiday...
Twenty unique performers, twenty separate stories in the first person, in a performance interspersed with songs, narrations and events from the life of each personality.
This special palimpsest of musical genres, stories and eras is uniquely combined by Artemis Matafia with her interpretation and stage comfort, honoring some of the greatest singers in the world.
PERFORMANCES
Music Wagon Orient Express
Every Thursday at 20.30 from 7 November
Duration: 120 minutes (with intermission)
Artemis Matafia is a Greek awarded performer, lyric soprano, actress and also a vocal coach and voice actress. Her singing and dancing career started in folklore-traditional Greek bands at her early years. She has taken classical vocal education with great teachers on Greek National Conservatoire while studying classical guitar. She has also obtained performing experience in Musical Seminars while living in London UK for two years, continuing in Athens.
During the last years she works on Music Stage Productions, on TV Shows and on Theatre Productions while collaborating with famous Greek Composers, Conductors and several Artists. She also performs as a voice actress in several TV shows and on DISNEY/NETFLIX movies.
She arranges and performs on personal music programs in Athens and all around Greece. She is also a song writer (lyrics and music), while having the ability to sing in various languages and in many repertoires including classic musicals and pop – jazz.
Artemis Matafia text/ interpretation
Dimitris Andreadis piano
Lambros Papanikolaou double bass