{"id":2895,"date":"2026-06-05T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/event\/a-midsummer-afternoons-dream\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:32:10","slug":"a-midsummer-afternoons-dream","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/en\/event\/a-midsummer-afternoons-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Midsummer Afternoon&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Yannis Ritsos \u2013 Thodoris Lempesis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A Midsummer Afternoon&#8217;s Dream (1938) by Yannis Ritsos is a poetic tribute to youth\u2014to the years of innocence, joy, and freedom. It was written during the period from 1937 to 1943, often regarded as one of the poet&#8217;s most prolific and lyrically inspired creative phases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">In his second major musical composition, following Moonlight Sonata, composer Thodoris Lempesis explores, through a dialogue between music and the spoken word, a world of images, childhood memories, places, moments, sounds, and the passage of time. The result is a compelling artistic conversation between poetry and music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Audiences will experience Ritsos&#8217;s richly evocative poem through the narration of acclaimed actress Panagiota Vlanti. Presented as a staged concert reading that blends music and spoken word, the performance invites listeners to become part of the &#8220;dream&#8221; and journey back to the carefree summers of childhood, suspended in the timeless light of a midsummer afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li>Poem: Yannis Ritsos<\/li>\n<li>Actress &#038; Narrator: Panagiota Vlanti<\/li>\n<li>Music Composition: Thodoris Lempesis<\/li>\n<li>Accompanied by: Chamber Orchestra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yannis Ritsos \u2013 Thodoris Lempesis A Midsummer Afternoon&#8217;s Dream (1938) by Yannis Ritsos is a poetic tribute to youth\u2014to the years of innocence, joy, and freedom. It was written during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2734,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[307,56],"tribe_events_cat":[21,20],"class_list":["post-2895","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-lesvos-summer-festival-2026","tag-municipality-of-mytilene-music-festival","tribe_events_cat-concerts","tribe_events_cat-festivals","cat_concerts","cat_festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.mytilene.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}