ARTHUR RIMBAUD A SEASON IN HELL

GIORGOS CHRISTIANAKIS

“A Season In Hell” (1873) was Arthur Rimbaud’s (1845 – 1891) only book published at the poet’s own     wish, while he was still alive.  The flagship of surrealists, the prayer of the beat generation, the idol of university students in May of ’68, Rimbaud, with his life and work, shaped the image of the “poet of revolt”, as he was called by Albert Camus, and was the source of inspiration for scholarly, intellectual musicians.

Giorgos Christianakis has been working for many years on the “damned” text. The concert – performance presented by an eleven-member music group, will be accompanied by original visual material and is “an attempt to express the singular world of the text, its breathing, whispers, screams, the interchanges of its facades, its sacrilegious words, its insanity, the dizziness of flight, using a living musical language, avoiding the dangers of description and sterile musical elegance”.

ADMISSION: €12 (when tickets are bought in advance)

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH: The State Theatre of Northern Greece / The 49th Dimitria Festival