Maria Mitsopoulou

Greek soprano, she has been performing leading roles at the GNO since the age of twenty. She has studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (Maria Callas scholarship) and in Italy. She has performed worldwide in concerts, recitals, operas, has recorded operas and oratorios, and has also collaborated with international artists and prestigious orchestras in Greece and abroad. She has sung from baroque to contemporary music and represented Greece in China with George Kouroupos’ The Yellow River (2007). She has been distinguished for her interpretation in such works as Die Zauberflöte, Rigoletto, The Medium, La bohème, The Tsar’s Bride, Serse, Die lustige Witwe, La traviata, Jenůfa, etc. She has won first prize and the Special Verdi Prize at the Vincenzo Bellini International Competition (2001). With George Petrou and the Camerata Stuttgart, she has recorded for the MDG the demanding role of Ermione (Handel’s Oreste), for which she received rave reviews from the international press. She belongs to the permanent staff of the GNO and teaches singing.