It features school dancers, actors, a Greek Children’s Choir, and Greek folk numbers from the school dance groups. This is a musical in the Rock Opera genre where it features Rock Guitars and Greek ethnic instruments such as the Tzoura, the Pontian Lyra, and Greek Percussion (Daouli and Dumberleki). This Porphyra Foundation’s show has premiered in Carnegie Hall and Off-Broadway.

Our community is getting the “Off-Broadway ” experience it deserves. The show also explores Penelope Delta’s incredible world, as envisioned by the great author, of Emperor Basil II’s Byzantine Greek Macedonian Renaissance, his struggles, victories, and aspirations for his people and family. Set in the year 988 AD, the Heroic Age of Basil II Emperor of Byzantium, the story chronicles Basil’s sister Princess Anna Porphyrogenita and her world-rocking marriage to Grand Prince Vladimir. Demetrios Preparatory School for the Greater Astoria community. The Porphyra Foundation is excited to share with you a wonderful production being put together with St. Come join us on a thrilling, historical, cultural journey through Music, Dance, and Theater with “The Story of Princess Anna Porphyrogenita.”

Rock opera band