⁂ Judith ➆

Judith premiered with success in London as part of Tête à Tête: The Opera festival 2023.

It is a one woman show based on Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók. A work in progress project, which explores and introduces the theme Opera as a Ceremony and Healing process, inspired by the healing aspect of the ancient Greek theatre.

The stage is treated like a temple and The Parthenon becomes Bluebeard’s Castle.

The 7 entrances in the front of the Temple, between the 8 columns, become the 7 doors of the Castle.

Bluebeard becomes the voice of the Creator, leading Judith to her Liberation; the Liberation of the Female Principle which has been trapped under the shackles of Patriarchy for centuries. Balance between female and male principles on the planet is the message, how can we achieve inner peace, which will resonate as Peace to the World?

After the Pandemic, which created so much fear in the collective consciousness, disconnection from each other and opened the Pandora’s Box of our soul, we all need a healing aspect in our lives.

This is a call to Remember Who we are. You are an infinite vibrational being.

May the message of Love and Peace that this show carries, travel to the hearts of the audience and awaken.

Time to Heal

Time to Remember Who You Are.

*The show is dedicated to the 22 year old Iranian Mahsa Amini, who was killed because she let her hair free and to all those women throughout the history of humanity who are searching for their voice. To every soul that seeks to be heard.

...Judith is an Angel of Light, a living Messenger of My Will, the Cosmic Will

Even as it is in the Celestial world of Eternal..

As above, so below ∆∇

✪ The production:

Music: Béla Bartók, Jakob Huuge, Arvo Pärt

Text: Béla Balázs, Leonora

Creation of the project, staging, solo performance: Leonora

Male Voice: different to every country

Piano: Konstantinos Papadakis

Set design & Video Art: Piedra Muda Lab

Lighting Design: Sergi Cerdán

Costume: Daphne Valente 

Set construction & artistic residence: Brava! Performing Arts

Arrangement for smaller orchestra: Aristides Strongylis (in case of orchestral version)

 &With the support of Schwarz Foundation, Sumita Kumar

and Theta Healing by Vianna, Aura Soma, Let the Miracle Begin.

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‘‘The Judith Project’’ was shortlisted for the Fedora Opera Prize 2022. The Fedora Competition is for emerging artists with innovative ideas. Judith was representing the Greek National Opera. Find out here:

*Opera as a Ceremony & Healing Process*

Our Project is an Open Call for Healing; an open invitation for the spectator to explore possibly the path of healing by stepping out of the performance; ‘’opening their own Pandora's Box’’ of their soul. The pandemic has given us an opportunity for introspection, and a chance to open the Pandora's Box of our souls. To look within. To reconnect with our soul. The collective consciousness produces collective results to the societies and thus to humanity.

If the pandemic left inside the collective consciousness a trauma and negative emotions like fear, sadness, anger; with healing and restoring the inner balance, then the collective consciousness is also relieved. If each one of us feels a sense of unity and love inside us, this will reflect collectively as unity and love between nations>peace to the world. This is a call to reconnect with your soul. To reconnect with Mother Earth.

We spent most of our lives ‘’sleeping’’, like a hibernated spiritual phase. We forget from where we come from and where we are going.

Awakening is the Quintessential journey towards personal and spiritual growth.

This is not a performance that people escape a bit from their realities and relax. This is a ‘’wake up’’ performance and gives food for thought at home.

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