Vangelis - The Opening Ceremony of Athens 1997 (Part 2of9)
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2009
- The Panathenean Stadium (Panathinaiko Stadio) of Athens, a 90,000 spectator, ancient all-marble stadium, was the site of the Opening Ceremony of the 6th IAAF World Championships in Athletics of 1997 held in Athens.
The concept of the ceremony, the direction, the artistic and musical supervision was solely by Vangelis Papathanasiou.
The European News Channel Euronews airing long parts of the ceremony at the Panathenean Stadium, characterized the Opening Ceremony of the 6th World Championships in Athletics as magnificent and grandiose and added that this bravura was a clear message from Athens to the world for the claim of the 2004 Olympic Games.
At the beautiful all-marbled ancient stadium where Olympics Games were brought back to life in 1896, as Euronews journalist denotes, Vangelis Papathanasiou, the pope of electronic music as he calls him, did not only fascinate the spectators inside the stadium but the whole world who watched through satellite. Concluding, the journalist calls the ceremony a successful one, a high standard performance with music, dancers, lighting, lasers, graphics and projections on the terrain formed a visual feast of unseen beauty worthily only to the feasts of the ancients.
Vangelis did not only write the music for the opening ceremony but he was also involved in the general direction of all other artistic aspects. During his personal concert performance which was accompanied by Montserrat Caballe, the infamous Spanish (Catalan) Soprano and her daughter Montserrat-Marti for two new creations of his and ended the event.
Vangelis had also composed a new Anthem for the IAAF which was heard for the first time at the opening ceremony of the Panathenian Stadium.
As Reuters wrote in an interview of Vangelis, Whether it's exploring space, conquering an athlete's inner limits or discovering a new continent, Greek composer Vangelis has made the music to match.
The top-selling artist, who has an asteroid between Jupiter and Mars named after him, and his new choral symphony Mythodea, was chosen by NASA to accompany its Mars Odyssey mission and whose theme of "Chariots of Fire" won an Academy Award said that performing his work in Greece was "appropriate" as "They work more naturally here. They are a product of this country, the same way I am a product of this country".
A record 200 countries participated in the event and was watched by 3.3 billion television viewers in 212 countries and many Greek officials believed helped give Greece the 2004 Olympic Games.
Many of the journalists present at the ceremony insisted that Vangelis ceremony was better than any prior Olympic Opening Ceremonies they watched. - Розваги
I was there .......what memories
Vangelis est mon maitre des synthés , et là je confirme !!.C' est un pur bonheur de l'
écouter jouer , c' est une merveille .Merci Vangelis .Esfabien.
Bellissima music
Je suis fan de Vangélis depuis 1976 , j' avais 6 ans .J' ai tout ses albums .Il n' y à pas un musicien qui lui arrive à la cheville .C' est un pionnier des synthés ,un pionnier de la musique minimaliste ,qui ont fait les beaux jours des documentaires de Frédérique Rossif ,et musiques de film ,et c'est également un grand peintre .Plus de 50 millions d' albums de vendues .Douze disque d' or .C'est un Géant .Merci Vangélis.fabien.
Amazing music!
What wonderful music, a shame the music performed here wasn't released
i so love this piece.. having had the audio for so long i can finally see what images it went with.. Vangelis injects so much humanity and beauty into this opening...lacking from the Athens 2004 opening..shame that gobby had to talk over the music !!!
Thank you sooo much for uploading this
I'll est un grand musicien.
Athens was awarded the 2004 Olympic Games just a month after this. I mean, OF COURSE they would win!!!
It is not the Olympics, it is the IAAF Championship that takes place every two years.
How can i be 1997.... If its every four years... Somthing went wrong some where... :s
Its the opening of the IAAF world championships, not the olympics.
Ericka chris who comments below was so right. Of course this was as very choosen music and scenario but Makedonds could do it much better. Alexander was Makedon King and never Greek Makedon a Kingdom while Greece was not and You should compare out how the Russians will make opening of football Championship 2018. The followers of Makedon.
maybe learn history before spreading lies and missinformation. Macedons where and are hellenic tribe, just like ionians, pelasgoi and ohters like athinenas and spartans. How exactly do you call your self macedonian when you infested the area almost 900 years later? Chemtrailed?