Eugenia Arsenis
Director - Dramaturg
She was awarded scholarships by the Fulbright Foundation, the Greek State Scholarship Foundation, the Onassis Foundation, the Propondis Foundation, the National Bank Cultural Foundation and the New York Film Academy. She was also awarded the Dame Margaret Tuke Travel Bursary from Royal Holloway University of London and the Merola Career Grant from the San Francisco Opera Center. Organizer of the symposium on Greek Drama in Modern Performance (London – Oxford, 2001), she has participated with lectures in a number of conferences.
Eugenia Arsenis was trained over fourteen years in the theory and the performance of music. In addition to theater directing and dramaturgy of plays and texts, she has composed music for theater and libretti for operas. For her performance Mendelssohn’s Antigone, which she directed and adapted at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms with the City of London Sinfonia and the BBC Singers, Eugenia Arsenis was honored at the Antikenfestpiele in Trier.
She collaborates with the Greek National Opera, as a director ((El Cimarrón by Hans Werner Henze, Wachsfigurenkabinett by Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Der Tsar laast sich photographieren by Kurt Weill, Dance with Me by Y. Vassiladonakis etc.), dramaturg and translator and she is the Coordinator and Dramaturg of the Experimental Stage of the Greek National Opera, specializing in contemporary opera, under the Artistic Direction of Maestro Theodore Antoniou.
She has also collaborated with the National Greek Television, as a scriptwriter and cultural advisor for documentaries and with other cultural organizations (National Theatre of Greece, Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Goethe Institute, Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music etc) as a director.
She directed the Merola Grand Finale for the 50th year anniversary of the San Francisco Opera Center with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. During the summer 2009 she directs The Marriage of Figaro in California, U.S.A the operas The Secret Kingdom by Ernst Krenek and Freud for Her by I. Valette at the Greek National Opera and.
She teaches Directing at the Department of Theatrical Studies at the University of Peloponnese and Drama and Theater Studies at the Hellenic American University and from 2009 she is coordinating the Melodramatic School (Acting for Opera) of the Athens Conservatory.
During the summer 2009 she directs The Marriage of Figaro in California, U.S.A. with the Bay Area Classical Harmonies Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Chung and the operas The Secret Kingdom by Ernst Krenek and Freud for Her by I. Valette at the Greek National Opera, conducted by Theodore Antonio.