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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 study with Robert Dean, aided by a scholarship from the
Panos4Life Society. He took the City Opera course at the City Literary
Institute, and is currently studying at Morley Opera School and City
University.
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 has sung with The Athens Singers in Dvořák’s Stabat Mater and Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and he has performed as a soloist in the oratorio Kosmas o Aitolos by Mimis Plessas. Last year 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 Masetto (Don Giovanni), Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), Zoroastro (Orlando), Colline (La Bohème), Sergeant of Police (Pirates of Penzance), Figaro (Nozze di Figaro), Dulcamara (L'elisir d'amore), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Barbe-Bleu (Ariane et Barbe-Bleu) and Kecal (The Bartered Bride). 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 sung in the Longborough Festival Opera production of La Bohème. |