Ανοιχτή πρόβα: Στάθης Άννινος – Κατερίνα Πολέμη – Τοπίο μυστικό

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At 17:30 on Friday 20 November 2026, half an hour before anything is played, the Megaron asks you to already be in your seat in the Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall. Arrival thirty minutes early is a stated requirement, not a suggestion. What follows is not a concert. It is the working hour before one.

The open rehearsal for Topio Mystiko (Secret Landscape) lets teenagers who study music watch two professionals prepare a programme — to catch, in the Megaron's own phrasing, the pulse and the challenges of a professional performance. The next evening, 21 November, pianist Stathis Anninos and composer-performer Katerina Polemi present Topio Mystiko in full: a journey through the musical universe of Dionysis Savvopoulos, the songwriter who died in October 2025 at 81.

Neither performer comes to Savvopoulos from outside. Stathis Anninos has worked with him as pianist and orchestrator, and for this programme he brings free arrangements and a suite for solo piano drawn from Savvopoulos's work. Katerina Polemi, a singer-songwriter who plays guitar and piano, has shared the stage with Savvopoulos in major productions and carries the concert's second part. Thanasis Apostolopoulos, Deputy Artistic Director of the Athens Concert Hall, joins them for the session.

This hour is built for a specific kind of listener: the conservatory student who wants to see how a pianist voices a chord under a singer, the teenager who knows these songs from a parent's record shelf and wants to hear them taken apart, the music teacher who brings a class to watch decisions being made rather than hear results delivered.

The setting is the Mitropoulos Hall, the Megaron's mid-sized room of roughly 450 seats. The vibe is attentive and unfinished — a workshop, not a show. The sound is solo piano and song, heard in pieces, stopped, repeated, adjusted. At the door, admission is open with an electronic reservation, and the session runs 60 minutes.

An open rehearsal shows what a finished concert hides. You hear a passage twice, the second time slightly different, and you start to understand why. You watch Anninos and Polemi negotiate an entrance or a tempo. The Savvopoulos songs, so familiar in their recorded form, arrive as material still being shaped.

If you want the finished arc — the solo piano suite, then Polemi's second half, in one uninterrupted evening — book for 21 November instead. But if you are a young musician who wants to see how that arc gets built, and to hear the questions asked before the answers are fixed, this is the hour.

The Megaron stands on Vasilissis Sofias at Kokkali, directly beside Megaro Moussikis metro station, so the thirty-minute early arrival is easy to make straight from the train. Reserve through webtics.megaron.gr before the day. The rehearsal also opens a Savvopoulos season at the hall, which returns to his songs on 8 and 9 January 2027 with a larger staged tribute.

Sixty minutes on the eve of the concert, for the listeners who care most about how a song is made.