Dionysios Kyropoulos - Bass
Dionysios is an opera singer based in London. He was born in Veria, Greece and moved to the UK in 2008 to continue his singing studies aided by a scholarship from the Panos4Life Society. He took the City Opera course at City Lit, and studied at Morley Opera School. He is currently reading music at City University, having singing lessons at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Robert Dean.
He started his singing studies in 2005 at the Filippos Nakas Conservatoire in Athens, and his acting studies in the Theatre of Changes drama school. In Greece, he sang with The Athens Singers in Dvořák’s Stabat Mater and Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and performed as a soloist in the oratorio Kosmas o Aitolos by Mimis Plessas.
This year he played the role of Polyphemus in Handel's Acis and Galatea conducted by Will Carslake, and the Imperial Comissioner in a production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly for Mantissa Opera. In 2009 he played the Badger in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, conducted by Tom Seligman, and Antonio in a production of Le Nozze di Figaro for The Complete Singer.
His roles in opera scenes have included Leporello (Don Giovanni), Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), Zoroastro (Orlando), Colline (La Bohème), Sergeant of Police (Pirates of Penzance), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Dulcamara (L'elisir d'amore), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Barbe-Bleu (Ariane et Barbe-Bleu), Kecal (The Bartered Bride), Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Rocco (Fidelio), Watergnome (Rusalka) and Coppélius (Les contes d'Hoffmann).
Dionysios has recently sung with Riverside Opera and Mantissa Opera. He toured with Unexpected Opera in their 2009 production of The Barber of Savile Row and sang in the 2009 Longborough Festival Opera production of La Bohème. This summer he will be singing in the Love and Betrayal Young Artists Concert at Longborough, and he is preparing the roles of Masetto in Mozart's Don Giovanni for The Complete Singer and Peachum in Gay's Beggar's Opera for Rose Opera Company.
Dionysios is an opera singer based in London. He was born in Veria, Greece and moved to the UK in 2008 to continue his singing studies aided by a scholarship from the Panos4Life Society. He took the City Opera course at City Lit, and studied at Morley Opera School. He is currently reading music at City University, having singing lessons at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Robert Dean.
He started his singing studies in 2005 at the Filippos Nakas Conservatoire in Athens, and his acting studies in the Theatre of Changes drama school. In Greece, he sang with The Athens Singers in Dvořák’s Stabat Mater and Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and performed as a soloist in the oratorio Kosmas o Aitolos by Mimis Plessas.
This year he played the role of Polyphemus in Handel's Acis and Galatea conducted by Will Carslake, and the Imperial Comissioner in a production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly for Mantissa Opera. In 2009 he played the Badger in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen, conducted by Tom Seligman, and Antonio in a production of Le Nozze di Figaro for The Complete Singer.
His roles in opera scenes have included Leporello (Don Giovanni), Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), Zoroastro (Orlando), Colline (La Bohème), Sergeant of Police (Pirates of Penzance), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Dulcamara (L'elisir d'amore), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Barbe-Bleu (Ariane et Barbe-Bleu), Kecal (The Bartered Bride), Simone (Gianni Schicchi), Rocco (Fidelio), Watergnome (Rusalka) and Coppélius (Les contes d'Hoffmann).
Dionysios has recently sung with Riverside Opera and Mantissa Opera. He toured with Unexpected Opera in their 2009 production of The Barber of Savile Row and sang in the 2009 Longborough Festival Opera production of La Bohème. This summer he will be singing in the Love and Betrayal Young Artists Concert at Longborough, and he is preparing the roles of Masetto in Mozart's Don Giovanni for The Complete Singer and Peachum in Gay's Beggar's Opera for Rose Opera Company.