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Suisse Romande, WDR, Bruckner Orchester Linz,
Oxford Philomusica, Budapest Radio Orchestra and
others. Outside Europe, he has performed in Korea,
the USA, Australia, Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia. He
has received a number of honourary prizes, includ-
ing the Golden Medal of Honour (1989) from the
Athens Municipality for his “excellent services” in
music; the Great Music Prize (2008) from the Un-
ion of Greek Critics for Drama and Music for his
general contribution to Opera, and theApollon Prize
(2010) from the Association of the Friends of the
Greek National Opera for his overall contribution to
music.
Dimitra Theodossiou – So-
prano
The Greek soprano Dimi-
tra Theodossiou is consid-
ered one of the most excit-
ing and important voices
for Verdi and Belcanto-
Repertoire. The soprano,
who is studying with Birgit Nickl in Munich, con-
tinues to confirm her gift for Verdi and Belcanto in-
terpretation and her ability to captivate audiences.
Theodossiou has interpreted the roles of
Norma
in
Athens, Tokyo, St. Petersburg, Kassel, and many
Italian theatres; Leonora (
Il Trovatore)
at Teatroalla
Scala in Milan, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro
Comunale di Bologna, Maggio Musicale Fioren-
tino, Arena di Verona, Opera de Monte Carlo,
Athens, Baltimore and Copenhagen; Desdemona
(
Otello
) at Teatro Municipal de São Paulo in Bra-
zil, Gran Teatro La Fenice, Teatro São Carlos in
Lisbon, Herodius Atticus in Athens, Violetta (
La
Traviata
) in Athens, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome,
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and Japan and Seoul
with the Gran Teatro La Fenice. She has worked
with world-renowned conductors, including Ric-
cardo Muti, Roberto Abbado, Gianluigi Gelmetti,
Marcello Viotti, Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Chailly
and Pinchas Steinberg. The soprano has won im-
portant international competitions, such as “Bel-
vedere”, “Operalia”, “Viotti” and “Di Stefano”,
and numerous prizes, including Best Soprano of
the Verdi Centenary Year 2002 in Milan. Theodos-
siou has recorded more than 13 operas, including
I Lombardi alla Prima Corciata
,
La Traviata
and
Il Trovatore
by Verdi;
Anna Bolena
and
Lucrezia
Borgia
by Donizzetti, and
Norma
by Bellini.
Angelo Simos –Tenor
Angelo Simos is the stage
name of Vaghelis Chatzisi-
mos, who was born inAth-
ens, Greece. Simos started
his musical education at
the Peiraikos Syndesmos
Conservatory, in the singing class of Thalia Moira,
and graduated with distinction and 1st prize. After
graduation he attended master classes and private
lessons with Ileana Cotrubas, Luigi Alva, Costas
Paschalis and Arrigo Pola. Since 1995 he has been
a member of the Greek National Opera Ensemble.
He collaborates regularly with all the major orches-
tras and conductors in Greece (Loukas Karytinos,
Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra
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