Vangelis - The Opening Ceremony of Athens 1997 (Part 7of9)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- 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.
Rest in heaven, God Vangelis.
Harmonia, demokratia, galaktika. Thank you, Hellas.
You're a great man vangelis respect from Turkey
Брильянт музыки самый великий
An amazing man with an amazing music. R.I.P.
one of the greatest ever composers....from ellas
almost 10 greek tribes where presented in this ceremony. Ionians, macedonians, athineans, pelasgoi, minoans, dorians and such. unprecedented and trully remarkable
Chariots of Fire is one the most eternal pieces of music i ever heard
How great the moment of 2004 Olympic Games, unforgettable experience and a great memory for me. 🌞💗
These are not the Olympic Games!
To Luiz Guilherme:
It´s the main theme of "1492: The Conquest of Paradise" A Swedish TV used the piece like jungle for its transmissions of the 1997 IAAF World Championships (t
Surreal!!!!!!
I have ALL Vangelis CD and one video!!!
Μαγεια! Magic!
ΑΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ
Proud to be Greek!
Chariots of fire is just magic for me
Merci 😁👍
magnifico...
Another wonderful clip of Vangelis performing a couple of instantly recognisable and beautiful pieces. How long did he actually perform for though?
Vangelis .......και ΓΚΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΟΛ(only Greeks will understand)
what is the name of the song after cheriots of fire?
loved you vangelis from Heaven to Hell
Hier was ik bij, als techneut..
GOOD SONK GREEK
(also for J.M.Jarre), the real music only in studio-lab versions, don't need show the muscles in public kitsch megalomanic-commercial
Bad ? In what possible way does this sound bad - really ?
The only national where entrance celebrate is over 3hour Greece and China Beijing
Over 10000years politism
all the Olympics does
Error: the correct name is not "Chariots Of Fire" (just Opening Theme or Main Title), --this is on the B side of the '81 album, keeping 20 minutes lenghts. (this live versions sounds bad, anyway)
@Dynamitarian Jealous that you're greek... >
The music is fantastic.
But, when showing images, they should also show black and asian athletes, as this is the Modern Olympic Games.
Dear Mash, this was in fact not the Olympic Games. It was the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. But even if it was the Olympics, an opening ceremony is not supposed to be a study / summary in anthropology. The Olympic Games opening is a ceremony which is supposed to characterize the people (nation) that hosts the game. You know, the beauty of our planet is its' many colours and by colours I mean its' differences. If we keep mixing everything because we think it's more... "politically correct" then we are going to get an 18% GREY as the old printers used to describe it. And certainly I don't think what we want is an all grey world!
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