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2026 / Lighting design

Φαέθων / Phaethon

Four performers around a large glowing sphere and a white circle of light in Phaëton.
Photography: Valeria Isaeva

A scorched circular landscape beneath a suspended sun. Light draws the boundary between earth and sky.

Lighting design · Vasilis Apostolatos
Philippi Festival / GNO Alternative Stage · 2026

A singer holding a glowing red light beneath an amber sun on the dark Phaethon stage.
Performers in white, red and black beneath the amber sun.
A performer in black amid haze, illuminated by the sun and floor lights.
Two performers in red and black beneath the luminous sphere.
Three performers under a dim red sphere in a blue-lit landscape.
Two performers in dark costumes lit blue on the Phaethon stage.
A performer in blue light with red glowing tubes behind him.

Credits

Concept & artistic curation — Rafi Music Theatre Company (Anastasia Kotsali, Lito Messini)
Dramaturgy, musical adaptation & arrangement — Vasiliki Legaki
Direction — Sofia Antoniou
Poetic composition — Tonia Tzirita Zacharatou
Sets — Marilena Kalaitzantonaki
Costumes — Eleni Kavvada
Choreography — Mina Ananiadou
Lighting design — Vasilis Apostolatos
Cast — Paris Dimatsas, Georgios Iatrou, Anastasia Kotsali, Lito Messini
Musicians — Kostas Giovanis (oboe), Eleftheria Togia (viola), Konstantinos Zigkeridis (bayan), Vasiliki Legaki (live electronics)
Co-production — Greek National Opera Alternative Stage × Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kavala