It's the magical city of the Carnival, the city of the terrifying King of the Night with his demons and the good Queen of the Day with her army of animals and birds. Eleven year old Kostas and eight year old Ageliki leave their village to visit the carnival dressed with the costumes that their mother has sewn. The King of the Night gets jealous of their costumes and abducts them to find their secret. The two smart children fight back with a lot of courage. Will they succeed, in this wondrous and funny tale full of adventures and music?

The Carnival of Miracles and Monsters is a massive Greek-Canadian co-production of Chroma Musika (Montreal) and the renowned Music House Filippos Nakas (Athens) written by Mihalis Makropoulos and set to music by Jiannis Georgantelis who also wrote the lyrics.

40 children of Hellenic heritage from Montreal and Laval were chosen, through auditions, to form a chorus that sings in the CD that accompanies the book with the Montreal Pop Symphonic Orchestra (Mark Dharmaratnam conducting). Under the vocal guidance of soloist Maria Diamantis and the direction of soloist Dimitris Ilias the young songbirds not only had the opportunity to discover the magic of the symphonic orchestra from the performer's point of view, but also to learn how such a super-production is put together from recording and mixing to the illustrations and printing.

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