‘The Great Provocateur’– Part II, Dimitris Papadimitriou

Photo: Andreas Simopoulos

"The Great Provocateur" Part II is the new uncompromising cycle of songs by Dimitris Papadimitriou, presented on the Upper Stage of Onassis Stegi, on 22 and 23 November.

Part II is devoted to those socially marginalized provocateurs and their relentless quest for an untarnished, pure, and absolute truth that automatically subjects everyone and everything, including themselves, to the stringencies of a constant, transcendental Inquisition. For there is nothing more murderously antisocial than strong, unadulterated doses of absolute truth. Aristophanes, Villon, Embiricos, Cavafy, Koropoulis, Lapathiotis, Leontaris, Brecht, John Donne, Palamas, Rilke, Sachlikis are but a few of the protagonists in this cycle dedicated to poetry’s great provocateurs.

“Great Provocateur, Part II,” closes the cycle that composer, Dimitris Papadimitriou, first conceived of in December 2018. The songs from the first part of the cycle were performed on Stegi’s Small Stage in February, 2019.

The Contemporary Music and Poetry Cycle provides support for new compositions of song cycles by established or emerging composers that draw from particular moments in the history of world poetry. The HELLENIC PROJECT suggests the themes that our composers then use as their inspiration.