Kostas Kastanas - Actor

-Kostas Kastanas reads stories of  Alexandros Papadiamantis.

-Kostas Kastanas reads Plato's The Apology of Socrates.

Kostas Kastanas reads poetry of Pablo Neruda (unedited).

-Kostas Kastanas reads Odyssey. (Text by the poet G. Geralis. unedited).

-Kostas Kastanas reads Iliad .(Text by the poet G.Geralis. In preparation).

-Dedication to Dionysios Solomos. Kostas Kastanas reads poetry of the national Greek poet. Produced by the Holy Monastery Of  Koutloumous, Mount Athos. (1998)

-Peter and the Wolf, Procophiev -Young person's guide to the Orchestra, B. Britten. Narrator Kostas Kastanas. Orchestre de Paris Igor  Marcevich Conductor.


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Radio Days

Kostas Kastanas is one of the actors of Greek radio days that were fully rewarded with the love of the audiences. Greek Radio Broadcasting offered him great parts in theatre programs and participations to programs that were adored by the people.

In the successful  "Radio Library" he read books of great Greek writers and he was the reader at  "Foreign visitors to Greece" and "Ships and the Sea" a program written and presented by the famous Greek writer and member of The Academy of Athens Elias Venezis. At the third program he recited French and English poetry inToulaTolia’s original Greek translations in her Poetry program. Lautreamon, Yeats, Rimbaud  etc.

In  "Monday’s Theater" a mostly loved popular program, he played first parts in many classical and modern plays specially arranged and directed for the radio theatre by the best Greek directors. Major Greek Playwrights as Kazantzakis, Sicelianos, Kampanellis, Ziogas and Shakespeare, Chechov, Hibsen, O’Neal and a lot of contemporary others, were in his repertory and there at the Third program of Manos Hadjidakis he directed and played Hamlet of Shakespeare with original music specially written from the Greek composer Kiriakos Sfetsas, performed by the Symphony orchestra of Greek Radio.

At the blooming of free radio stations in his own program at 902 FM was master-of-ceremonies on his own program, conducting
interviews with persons of significance in culture and art.

Voice-overs

For many years now, most advertising companies used his voice as a prestigious weapon to present several of their finest products with clarity, persuasion, humor, and pleasant hearing of the language, elements that Kostas Kastanas with his voice colors and acting skills and experience could provide them.

Narrations

Has narrated important documentaries directed by well-known Greek and Foreign directors, including Vassilis Maros, Lambros
Liaropoulos, Kostas Vrettakos, Mary Papaliou, Giorgos Tsiokos, Hainofsky and Soyman, Tasos Psarras , Kostis Zois and others.
He was the narrator in Greek of many National Geographic documentaries.