Thirty one years after its first presentation, Requiem for the End of Love returned to a space where it could now stand without explanation: the main stage of the Greek National Opera. Not as a revival or anniversary gesture, but as a work that continues to engage with the present.
The performance installation was first created in 1995 by composer Giorgos Koumentakis and director/choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou inside a former power station in Neo Faliro, Athens. Conceived as a tribute to friends and a generation lost to AIDS, the work emerged at a time when the epidemic shaped both personal lives and artistic expression.
