MARILENA STRIFTOBOLA

Greek soprano, she was born in Athens. She studied voice with the soprano Martha Arapis and received a diploma in vocal performance with honours, first prize and an excellent award for outstanding performance. Her collaboration with the Greek National Opera began in 2013 with the children’s opera Beware! The Prince is Messy by Nikos Kypourgos. Since then she has appeared as Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Delcharo and Krinio (The Μurderess by Giorgos Koumendakis), Nightingale (The Emperor’s Nightingale by Lena Platonos), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Lisa (La sonnambula), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Violetta Valéry (7 Deaths of Maria Callas) and Nannetta (Falstaff). She has performed in major venues and festivals internationally, such as Carnegie Hall in New York and Göttingen International Handel Festival in Germany, receiving enthusiastic reviews for her roles as Iris and Cupid in Handel’s Semele. She has won awards in international competitions and has recorded the operettas The Princess of Sazan, War in War and The Cretan Girl by Spyros Samaras.