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Fanie Antonelou has recorded the soprano solo in the London version of Johannes Brahms’s A German Requiem with the ensemble Gli Scarlattisti, conducted by Jochen Arnold. The recording will be released soon on Organum Classics.
EXODION - Trailer. Short film by media artist Lukas Rehm composer: Calliopi Tsoupaki, soprano: Fanie Antonelou, church organ: Fabian Wöhrle
SOLO ALBUM
Goethe Lieder by Beethoven, Zelter, Reichardt, Mozart, and Romance by Szymanowska
Fanie Antonelou, soprano - Sofya Gandilyan, fortepiano
Instruments:
fortepiano by Johann Gottlieb Fichtel, Vienna?, 1803
fortepiano by Nannette Streicher, Vienna Opus 1117 (?), 1816
COVIELLO 2024
EUR 20 incl. postage
Monteverdi's "Zefiro torna" with the cornet player Jean Tubéry and the Ensemble La Fenice
Concert film from the Music Salon Weissenbrunn
»Who rides so late through the night and wind?« … This is the first line of one of the most famous German poems. Even 240 years later, it still captures our imagination. Johann Friedrich Reichardt, a composer Goethe rated very highly, created an impressive setting to music of this ballad. Whenever the Erlking appears, even today’s listeners shudder with horror, enhanced by the dramatic talent of Greek soprano, Fanie Antonelou. A touching climax to a concert film which is all about the genius of Goethe.
Recorded in November 2020 in the context of the Artist-in-Residence Programme,
With support from the Schloss Weißenbrunn Foundation in co-operation with CLOSER by culiner creative circle.
"AFFINITIES" - RECORDING of Greek and German art songs - with Fanie Antonelou and Kerstin Mörk
by Bis Records
EUR 20 incl. postage
"Antonelou does vary her vocal color considerably. She pays close aftention to text and mood, singing with a real personality.
Kerstin Mörk is more than an accompanist; she is a true collaborative pianist who delves into the spirit of the music. BIS's recorded sound is very natural and well balanced between singer and piano. Fine program notes by Yannis Samprovalakis, along with complete texts and translations in Greek, Cerman, and English complete a highly recommendable project."
FANFARE
“The two artists are particularly compelling in the Greek repertoire, which proves rich in discoveries. Rather than Kalomiris’s expansive lyricism, woven with a touch of enchantment, it is the five excerpts from Yannis Constantinidis’s Twenty Melodies of the Greek People (1937–1947) that captivate with their economy, harmonic refinement, and poetry of dawn or midnight. An extensive booklet note makes the album all the more highly recommendable.”
DIAPASON
Upcoming concerts
J. S. Bach, Gott ist mein König
Cantata BWV 71
Thomas Church Leipzig
THOMANERCHOR Leipzig
Fanie Antonelou, soprano
Zvi Emanuel-Marial, alto
Ferdinand Keller, tenor
Tobias Wicky, bass
Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig
Thomas Organist, Johannes Lang
Thomas cantor Andreas Reize, conductor
Saturday, 22nd August 2026 - 15:00
Thomas Church Leipzig - "MOTETTE at the Thomas Church"
A Roman Night
Cantatas and sonatas by Handel, Cesarini, Bononcini, and Lulier
with Svapinga Consort München
Fanie Antonelou, soprano
Anderson Fiorelli, baroque cello
Sofya Gandilyan, harpsichord
Sunday, 27th September 2026 - 18:00
Albert-Lempp-Saal of the Kreuzkirche in Munich
Ostium, medieval music festival - 2026
Medieval Music from Cyprus, Burgundy and Provence
Ensemble Ex Silentio
Fanie Antonelou, voice
Dimitris Kountouras, flutes & direction
Alexis Mastichiadis, portative organ
Saturday, 17th October 2026, 20:00
Athens Conservatoire - A. Garoufalis Hall
"Sayings and Cracks"
Tribute to György Kurtág
György Kurtág (1926*), The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza
Op. 7 (1963-1968)
Stylianos Dimou (1988*), Through the Cracks of Bornemisza
Fanie Antonelou, voice
Giorgos Konstantinou, piano
The centerpiece of the performance, Sayings and Cracks, is György Kurtág's The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza, a milestone work in postwar Hungarian music. In an extremely condensed forty-five-minute score, Kurtág composes a unique concerto for voice and piano: twenty-four short movements organized into four cycles - Confession, Sin, Death, Spring - in which the sayings of the 16th-century persecuted Hungarian preacher Péter Bornemisza become an almost explosive physical and mental experience.
In Stylianos Dimou's new piece, Through the Cracks of Bornemisza, commissioned by the GNO Alternative Stage, a direct dialogue with Kurtág's work is developed. Nine miniatures, alternating between acoustic and mixed electroacoustic writing, are interpolated within the «cracks» of the work's movements, while four prerecorded recitations by a soprano in Greek translation serve as introductions to the distinct cycles.
Thursday, 29th October 2026 - 20:30
Greek National Opera - Alternative Stage
(Contemporary Music Days)
Felix Mendelssohn, Lobgesang op. 52
John Rutter, Gloria
Fanie Antonelou, soprano
Chiara Bäuml, soprano II
Sejin Park, tenor
Philharmonia Choir Stuttgart
Tim Krüger, organ
Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
Johannes Knecht, conductor
Sunday, 1st November 2026, 19:00
Liederhalle Stuttgart, Beethoven-Hall
Songs in Times of Change - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
song recital
Fanie Antonelou, soprano
Jerassimos Coidan, fortepiano
Friday, 6th November 2026 - 20:30
Megaron Concert Hall Thessaloniki - E. Riadis Hall
(at the Festival "Tage Alter Musik"
Theme 2026: The Age of revolutions)
"Starker spanischer Pfeffer"
Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Eduard Mörike
song recital
Fanie Antonelou, soprano
Robert Bärwald, piano
Sunday, 15th November 2026 - 18:00
Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg
An event presented by the Mörike Society
Songs in Times of Change - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
song recital
Fanie Antonelou, soprano
Jerassimos Coidan, fortepiano
Sunday, 22nd November 2026 - 20:30
Greek National Opera - Alternative Stage
(as part of the Festival "Tage Alter Musik"
Theme 2026: The Age of revolutions)
Sara Glojnarić, Station Paradiso
A mixtape opera about the yearning for home
conductor, Peter Rundel
direction, Anika Rutkofsky
stage, Christina Schmitt
costumes, Adrian Stapf
video-art, Manuela Hartel
choreography, Janine Grellscheid
lights, Volker von Schwanenflügel
sound-design, Paul Hauptmeier, Martin Recker
dramaturgie Johanna Mangold, Julia Schmitt
Busfahrer, Goran Jurić
Braut, Josefin Feiler
Yugo-Vater/ Jugoslawe, Andrew Bogard
Yugo-Tochter, Diana Haller
Neapolitaner, Joseph Tancredi
türkischer Vater, Ziad Nehme
türkische Tochter, Fanie Antonelou
süditalienische Mutter, Stine Marie Fischer
süditalienische Tochter, Martina Mikelić
singende Tante Mari(j)a Carole Wilson
kochende Tante Mari(j)a Loretta Petti
Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Sunday, 29th November 2026 - 18:00
Staatsoper Stuttgart
further shows:
Wednesday, 2nd December 2026 - 19:30
Donnerstag, 10th December 2026 - 19:30
Friday, 18th December 2026 - 19:00
Staatsoper Stuttgart
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio
BWV 248
Fanie Antonelou, soprano
further solists: to be announced
Paul-Gerhardt-Choir
Leo Vokal and Orchestra
Ulrich Mangold, conductor
Cantatas I-III
Saturday, 5th December 2026, 18:00
Paul-Gerhardt-Church Stuttgart
Cantatas I and IV-VI
Sunday, 6th December 2026, 18:00
Leonhardskirche Stuttgart
Georg Friedrich Handel
Messiah
Oratorio for Solists, Choir and Orchestra - Parts I & III HWV 56
Fanie Antonelou, soprano
Anne Greiling, alto
Patrik Hornak, tenor
Jan-Henrik Witkowski, bass
Untertürkheimer Kantorei
conductor, Irene Ziegle
Saturday, 12th December 2026, 17:00
(Family concert)
Gartenstadtkirche Stuttgart-Luginsland
Sunday, 13th December 2026, 17:00
Gartenstadtkirche Stuttgart-Luginsland
Saint-Saëns, Oratorio de Noël
Christmas Eve
Fanie Antonelou, soprano
further soloists: to be announed
Paulus-choir Stuttgart
Orchestra
Sabine Steinmetz, conductor
Christmas Eve, 24th December 2026, 22:30
Pauluskirche Stuttgart-West