Creating & Producing Art
MEDEA 21 – WORK IN PROGRESS (2022-2024)
Cooperation with FELONEYE (2023-24)
Event & Show Producer | Cooperation with Gert Hof 1998-2011
Between 1998 and 2011 business partner, artistic consultant, marketing director and producer of the light architect and director Gert Hof | In this time more than 40 mega and special events around the world | The Locations Atlantic City, Antwerp, Arnheim, Athens, Beijing, Berlin, Bolzano, Budapest, Dortmund, Dresden, Duesseldorf, Ferropolis, Gallipoli, Hamburg, Ischgl, Jerusalem, Lviv, Magdeburg, Malta, Moscow, Munich, Muscat, Nicosia, Nuremberg, Piraeus, Poznan, Sofia, Vilnius, Washington | The Countries Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, USA
Asteris Kutulas has organized concerts and events of all genres, as well as opera and ballet performances, in dozens of countries worldwide for a large number of leading performing artists. Working as Event/Concert Producer, Tour Manager, Promoter, Agent or Production Manager for/with artists such as Mikis Theodorakis, Maria Farantouri, Zülfü Livaneli, the Scorpions, Mike Oldfield, Roger Waters, Milva, Sting, Buena Vista Social Club, Westbam, Kelly Family, Klaus Schulze, Demis Roussos, Charoula Alexiou, Anouk, George Dalaras, Vicky Leandros, Motörhead, Thomas Anders, Gabi Delgado etc.
Writer, Director, Film & Video Producer
Since the beginning of the 1980s working as author, producer, artist agent, dramaturge, production manager or director in various music, documentary and hybrid film productions • "Canto General" (DEFA feature documentary, 1982) • "Say heaven – Even when there isn't one" (TV documentary, 1983) • "Zorba Ballet in Budapest" (short documentary, 1989) • "Sun & Time" (ARTE/ZDF documentary with Klaus Salge, 1999) • "Mike Oldfield – Millenium Bell / Live at Victory Column in Berlin" (worldwide Live TV & DVD production, 2000) • "Scorpions live on Red Square" (for TV & DVD production, 2003) • "Motörhead – Stage Fright / 30 Years Motörhead" (DVD production, 2004) • Gert Hof & Westbam – "Ship of Light" (DVD production, 2008) • "Anouk – Live at Gelredome" (DVD production, 2008) • "Mikis Theodorakis. Composer" (ARTE documentary with Klaus Salge, 2010) • "Recycling Medea" (feature music docufiction, 2014) • "Dance Fight Love Die" (feature music docufiction, 2018) • "Apassionata Video Blinks" (27 video blinks, 2014-19) • "Zorba in Verona" (ballet experimental documentary, 2020)• "Satellite Clips" (20 Satellite Clips, 2015-21) • "Electra 21" (Liquid Staging Installation with 4 movies on 1 soundtrack, 2021)
Dramaturge & Artistic Advisor | Apassionata Shows 2013-2019
Executive Producer | Apassionata Shows 2010-2014
Apassionata: 2010 to 2018 the largest family entertainment show in Europe | Number of shows produced between 2010 and 2014: about 110 shows in about 30 cities per year | Between 410,000 and 508,000 live viewers per year | On Tour (Facts & Figures) ... over 100 employees ... more than 60 horses ... 130 tons of sand and sawdust ... 9 trucks and 5 horse transporters ... over 200 square meters of video screen
Cooperation Partners & Clients 1989-2023
Working Places 1986-2023
Music Video "1 + 1 = 1" (Reunification of Germany Clip)
Co-Founder & Creative Director of the film festival Hellas Filmbox Berlin (2015-2019)
Hellas Filmbox Trailer 2018
Hellas Filmbox Creative & Art Work (2015-2019)
Artistic Consultancy for the Apassionata Visuals (2015-2019)
Dance Fight Love Die | With Mikis on the Road (movie, 2018)
filmjournalisten.de: Like a volcanic eruption, Asteris Kutulas – who also wrote the script together with Ina Kutulas – hurls 30 years of Mikis Theodorakis’ efforts and works onto the silver screen … Like fireworks, one capture after another erupts onto the screen, revealing a bottomless pool of musical ideas that don’t shy away from artistic experiments (Air Brush) and invariably put a spotlight on war, Holocaust, military dictatorship, Greek-Turkish reconciliation and the Cold War. Like eruptions triggered by the clash between universe and humanity’s own destructiveness … The excerpts ejected by this cinematic volcano are sourced from many different parts of the world. In one, several decades after Zorbas, we find Theodorakis dancing the sirtaki with Anthony Quinn on Munich’s King’s Square. In another, he enthuses about Soviet Alpine chocolate, retrieved from a “great cabinet”. And when his hands aren’t busy conjuring up chocolate, they love to direct and compose. This man is a marvel.
Satellite Clips
Thanatos Ballet Film Trilogy (Medea, Electra, Antigone) | 2014-2025
Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film
Cooperation with Mikis Theodorakis (1981-2021)
Since 1981 cooperation with the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, for whom Kutulas produced or co-produced more than 35 CDs and more than 150 concerts worldwide (among others in Canada, Chile, Russia, Israel, South Africa, Australia, in Turkey and in almost all European countries) | The cooperation includes ballet, opera, symphonic & chamber music & theatre performances, film & music video productions
Assistant, Artistic Consultant, International Management & Producer of Mikis Theodorakis (1981-2000) | Canto General, Berlin 1981 (world premiere of the integral work) • Symphony No 2, Halle 1982 (world premiere) • Symphony No 3, Berlin 1982 (world premiere) • Axion Esti, Leipzig 1982 (world premiere of the German version) • Sadducees Passion, Berlin 1983 (world premiere) • Liturgy No 2, Dresden 1983 (world premiere) • Symphony No 7, Dresden 1984 (world premiere) • European Concert Tour 1987/88 (40 cities) • Canto General Ballet, Berlin 1989 (world premiere) • Metasymphonic European Tour, 1990 (world premiere) • Axion Esti ballet, Perth (Australia)1990 (world premiere) • Theodorakis, Manos Chatzidakis & Zülfü Livaneli, Ephessos 1991 • Theodorakis sings Theodorakis Tour (Europe & Israel), 1991-93 • Canto General concert, Santiago (Chile) 1993 • Raven ballet, Moscow (Bolshoi Opera) 1997 (world premiere) • Piano Concerto & Zorba Ballet, Denmark & Sweden 1996 • Concert for Cello & Guitar & symphonic orchestra, Munich 1998 (world premiere) • Recordings of the operas Electra, Antigone, Medea in St. Petersburg 1996-98 & Metamorphosis of the Dionysus in Berlin 1999 • Acropolis Millennium Event, Athens 31.12.1999/1.1.2000 • Ferropolis Opening Event 2000
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Bizarre Städte (1987-89) & Sondeur (1990-91)
Literary Translations & Editions (selection)
The Olympiacos FC Harbor Event | Piraeus | July 2020
Many thanks to ...
Ina Kutulas, Mikis Theodorakis, Dimitris Koutoulas, Rafaela Wilde, Tim Dowdall, Peter Zacher, Guy Wagner, Nina & Gert Hof, Margarita Theodorakis & Romanos Productions, Peter Hanser-Strecker & Schott Music, Rena Parmenidou, Alexandros Karozas, Alexander Koutoulas, Renato Zanella, James Chryssanthes, Klaus Salge, George Theodorakis, Sandra von Ruffin, Costas Spiliadis, Zülfü Livaneli, Jörg Krause, Hansgeorg Hermann, Annett Gröschner, Guido Karp, Jens Rötzsch, Thomas Erbach, René Dame, Sabine Wenzel, Ralph Larmann, Anja Pietsch, Bella & Angelika Oelmann, Henning Zierock, Heike Hänsel, Wassilis Aswestopoulos, Erol Özkaraca, Gerd Helinski, Timothy Grossman & the Babylon, Xenia Kaldara & the Michalis-Cacojannis-Foundation, Penny Langa, Costas Giannacacos, Iro & Giorgos Sgourakis, Velissarios Kossivakis, Alexander Strizhak and the Strecker Stiftung
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