The Little Prince Blues: When you touch ground, you have already grown up | Giannis Aggelakas

"Nekyia" began as a friendly chat between Giannis Aggelakas and Olia Lazaridou, and in 2023, with both on stage and under the direction of Christos Papadopoulos, it premiered at the Onassis Stegi, sold out, was published as a book, and traveled to Amsterdam and Thessaloniki.

"The Little Prince Blues" began even earlier; back in Aggelakas’ teenage years, when he first discovered Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s "The Little Prince". A book he kept on his shelf with the cover always facing outward. To remember. To not forget that “all grown-ups were once children… but only a few of them remember it.” Or, as he puts it, “A world cut off from its childhood is lifeless, frightening, and bleak.”

Aggelakas envisioned the stage version of the famous 1943 book as a kind of blues, a long, resonant pulse, at times melancholic, at times celebratory, paying tribute to Pavlos Sidiropoulos and his iconic album "The Prince’s Blues". Like an electromagnetic wave of words, music, and songs that move through soul and body, through earthly wars and interplanetary journeys, through the Pilot and the Little Prince, through the musicians and performers on stage, and the audience itself.