Isadora Duck

Isadora Duck

Stella Michailidou / Kostas Vomvolos

Available for on-demand streaming from April 7, 2025 to July 31, 2025

On https://www.nationalopera.gr/GNOTV

Ticket: 5€
Musical

The enchanting musical designed for the whole family Isadora Duck, based on the highly successful fairy tale of the same name by Stella Michailidou, is coming to your screens via GNO TV, offering children and grown-ups an unforgettable music theatre experience. This enchanting performance, which was a great success at the GNO Alternative Stage and inspired by the life of the great dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan, will be available on nationalopera.gr/GNOTV/en from 7/4/2025 to 31/7/2025, with Greek and English subtitles.

The production Isadora Duck, written and directed by experienced Stella Michailidou and featuring music composed by distinguished composer Kostas Vomvolos, speaks about inclusion, acceptance, the power of forgiveness, and the acknowledgment of each person's uniqueness, while also being an ideal introduction for children to the art of dance.

The performance directly references a pioneering figure in modern dance, the "barefoot dancer" Isadora Duncan, and classical fairy tales, such as Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling. Its heroine, the petit duck Isadora Duck, with her uniquely beautiful blue feathers, lives in Swan Lake, struggling to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true. Passion and the desire to dance are at the heart of this performance, which effectively communicates important values in a simple way, offering audiences a tender and at once cruel self-awareness adventure through music, dance, and humour.

Text, stage director: Stella Michailidou
Music: Kostas Vomvolos
Set & costume designer: Kenny McLellan
Choreographer: Fotis Diamantopoulos
Lighting designer: Christos Tziogas
Video designer: Babis Venetopoulos

Isadora: Lydia Stefou
Teacher - Narrator, Ms Hoity-Toity, Ms Papov: Margarita Syngeniotou
Mr Coup-de-Pied: Dimitris Nalbandis
Student, Swan, Papitsa: Io Latousaki
Student, Swan, Pipitsa: Georgia Kyriazi
Student, Swan, Young duck: Rafaela Tsobanoudi
Student, Swan, Fox: Iliana Yfantí
Student, Swan, Hunter, Colourful bird of the lake: Myrsini Petroutsou
Students, Swans, Colourful birds of the lake: Iwanna Loupeti,
Anna-Maria Markopoulou, Eleni Fotou
Frog, Wolf: Christos Ntentis (Onel)

Couple of invited dancers from the Swan Lake:
Igor Siadzko / Antonis Koruti, Popi Sakellaropoulou / Olga Zourbina
Dancers of the GNO Ballet

Odysseas Siozopoulos clarinet
Sofia Efklidou cello
Christos Sakellaridis piano

With a 5-euro ticket, viewers can enjoy this production from the comfort of their homes at tv.nationalopera.gr/en, at any time they choose, on their computer, ipad, TV or mobile phones. The ticket offers the possibility to access the performance for an unlimited number of times over the course of a 30-day period starting from the first streaming.

The funding body of the project is the Ministry of Culture, within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan "Greece 2.0" with funding from the European Union - NextGeneration EU.

Lead Donor of the Greek National Opera and Founding Donor of the GNO TV

Stavros Niarchos Foundation