Christos Stassinopoulos
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The tenor
Christos Stasinopoulos (his surname occasionally appears as Stassinopoulos) is an opera singer, recitalist and actor
from Athens
.
.
He started his vocal studies at the National Greek Conservatory
with Georgia Georgilopoulou, continued in Stockholm
with Ulla Blom and completed in Athens, at the Hellenic Conservatory, with Paulos Raptis. He graduated in 1994 summa cum laude, being also awarded an Excellence Prize.
Moreover he studied advanced music theory and harmony at the Hellenic Conservatory with Irene Archavli, graduating with distinction in 1996.
He also studied oratorio
, lied
and chamber music
interpretation, attending a series of master classes by Paul Schilawsky, the eminent pedagogue of Mozarteum Music Academy.
and radio
productions. He starred in Lefteris Chrysochoos's shortfilm "Heralds of the Chimera", that participated in the International Shortfilm Festival in Drama, Greece
and the Munich International Festival of Film Schools.
Mainly a concert singer with a repertoire ranging for Renaissance
to contemporary music, he has given recitals and participated in concerts in Greece (Athens Festival
events at the Mansion of the Duchess of Plaisance
, "Parnassos
" Concert Hall, "Athenaeum" International Cultural Centre, Athens Municipality Cultural Centre, German Church in Athens "Christus Kirche", Patmos Municipality Cultural Centre, "Apollo" Theatre in Hermoupolis - Syros
etc.) and Sweden
(Stockholm
Music Museum, the Artists' Club - Konstnärsklubb, Churches of All Saints' - Allhelgonakyrkan , St. Paul, Enebykyrkan, Engelbrektskyrkan, Solborg Mansion, City of Västerås
Art Museum etc).
In 1997 Christos Stasinopoulos performed the part of Vizier in Nikos Mamangakis' "Opera of Shadows", commissioned and produced by Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall
.
In 2008 he was engaged by the Greek National Opera
for a production of its Experimental Stage. He performed the tenor part in "Orpheus: a chamber symphony with acting voices" by the Greek contemporary composer Dimitri Sykias and the role of the Soldier in the opera "The Emperor of Atlantis" (Der Kaiser von Atlantis
; 1943) by Viktor Ullmann
.
to perform the title-part in "Aladdin", in the dubbed Greek version of the very successful animated film, as well as in its two sequels "The Return of Jafar
" and "Aladdin and the King of Thieves
". He's been also the Greek voice of "Aladdin" in the long running tv series
. Besides "Aladdin
", he has dubbed the parts of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
in Walt Disney's "Alice in Wonderland"
.
Warner Bros.
chose him to perform the part of Cornelius
in the Greek version of Don Bluth
's animated film "Thumbelina
" and the part of Hubbie in "The Pebble and the Penguin
".
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Christos Stasinopoulos (his surname occasionally appears as Stassinopoulos) is an opera singer, recitalist and actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
from Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
.
Education
Christos Stasinopoulos studied acting at the Drama Schools of Piraeus Association and Eugenia Hatzikou in AthensAthens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
.
He started his vocal studies at the National Greek Conservatory
National Conservatoire (Greece)
The Greek National Conservatoire was founded in Athens in 1926 by the composer Manolis Kalomiris and a number of other notable artists like Charikleia Kalomoiri, Marika Kotopouli, Dionysios Lavrangas, and Sophia Spanoudi...
with Georgia Georgilopoulou, continued in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
with Ulla Blom and completed in Athens, at the Hellenic Conservatory, with Paulos Raptis. He graduated in 1994 summa cum laude, being also awarded an Excellence Prize.
Moreover he studied advanced music theory and harmony at the Hellenic Conservatory with Irene Archavli, graduating with distinction in 1996.
He also studied oratorio
Oratorio
An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
, lied
Lied
is a German word literally meaning "song", usually used to describe romantic songs setting German poems of reasonably high literary aspirations, especially during the nineteenth century, beginning with Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, and Franz Schubert and culminating with Hugo Wolf...
and chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
interpretation, attending a series of master classes by Paul Schilawsky, the eminent pedagogue of Mozarteum Music Academy.
Acting and Singing career
Christos Stasinopoulos made acting debut with the "Seventh Theatre", director Corais Damatis's theatre company. He also joined other groups and participated in various televisionTelevision
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
productions. He starred in Lefteris Chrysochoos's shortfilm "Heralds of the Chimera", that participated in the International Shortfilm Festival in Drama, Greece
Drama, Greece
Drama , the ancient Drabescus , is a town and municipality in northeastern Greece. Drama is the capital of the peripheral unit of Drama which is part of the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. The town is the economic center of the municipality , which in turn comprises 53.5 percent of the...
and the Munich International Festival of Film Schools.
Mainly a concert singer with a repertoire ranging for Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
to contemporary music, he has given recitals and participated in concerts in Greece (Athens Festival
Athens Festival
Athens - Epidaurus Festival is an annual arts festival that takes place in Athens and Epidaurus, from May to October. It is one of the most famous festivals in Greece. The festival includes musical, theatrical and other cultural events....
events at the Mansion of the Duchess of Plaisance
Duchess of Plaisance
Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, Duchess of Plaisance was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where her father, François Barbé-Marbois, was serving as French Consul-General in the United States....
, "Parnassos
Parnassos (municipality)
Parnassos is a former municipality in Phocis, Greece, named after Mount Parnassus. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Delphi, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 2,668 . The seat of the municipality was in Polydrosos....
" Concert Hall, "Athenaeum" International Cultural Centre, Athens Municipality Cultural Centre, German Church in Athens "Christus Kirche", Patmos Municipality Cultural Centre, "Apollo" Theatre in Hermoupolis - Syros
Syros
Syros , or Siros or Syra is a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is located south-east of Athens. The area of the island is . The largest towns are Ermoupoli, Ano Syros, and Vari. Ermoupoli is the capital of the island and the Cyclades...
etc.) and Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
(Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Music Museum, the Artists' Club - Konstnärsklubb, Churches of All Saints' - Allhelgonakyrkan , St. Paul, Enebykyrkan, Engelbrektskyrkan, Solborg Mansion, City of Västerås
Västerås
Västerås is a city in central Sweden, located on the shore of Lake Mälaren in the province Västmanland, some 100 km west of Stockholm...
Art Museum etc).
In 1997 Christos Stasinopoulos performed the part of Vizier in Nikos Mamangakis' "Opera of Shadows", commissioned and produced by Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall
Athens Concert Hall
The Athens Concert Hall is a concert hall located in Athens, on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue....
.
In 2008 he was engaged by the Greek National Opera
Greek National Opera
The Greek National Opera is the country's state lyric opera company, located at 59 Akadimias Street in centralAthens. It is a public corporation under the supervision of the Greek Ministry of Culture and administered by the Board of Trustees and its Artistic Director.The organization is responsible...
for a production of its Experimental Stage. He performed the tenor part in "Orpheus: a chamber symphony with acting voices" by the Greek contemporary composer Dimitri Sykias and the role of the Soldier in the opera "The Emperor of Atlantis" (Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Der Kaiser von Atlantis, oder Die Tod-Verweigerung is a one-act opera by Viktor Ullmann with a libretto by Peter Kien. Both Ullmann and Kien were inmates at the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt , where they collaborated on the opera, around 1943...
; 1943) by Viktor Ullmann
Viktor Ullmann
Viktor Ullmann was a Silesia-born Austrian, later Czech composer, conductor and pianist of Jewish origin.- Biography :...
.
Film and television
He was chosen by the Walt Disney CompanyThe Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
to perform the title-part in "Aladdin", in the dubbed Greek version of the very successful animated film, as well as in its two sequels "The Return of Jafar
The Return of Jafar
The Return of Jafar is a 1994 American animated film that is a direct-to-video sequel to the 1992 animated film Aladdin, both produced by The Walt Disney Company. The film was released on May 20, 1994 and serves as the origin of the Aladdin animated series...
" and "Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Aladdin and the King of Thieves is a 1996 animated film that is the second direct-to-video sequel to the Disney animated feature Aladdin...
". He's been also the Greek voice of "Aladdin" in the long running tv series
Aladdin (TV series)
Aladdin is an animated television series made by Walt Disney Television which aired from 1994 to 1995, based on the original 1992 feature. Coming on the heels of the direct-to-video sequel The Return of Jafar, the series picked up where that installment left off, with Aladdin now living in the...
. Besides "Aladdin
Aladdin
Aladdin is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland ....
", he has dubbed the parts of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fictional characters in an English language nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. The nursery rhyme has a Roud Folk Song Index number...
in Walt Disney's "Alice in Wonderland"
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)
Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based primarily on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a few additional elements from Through the Looking-Glass. Thirteenth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film was released in New...
.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
chose him to perform the part of Cornelius
Cornelius
Cornelius is a Roman family name and a masculine given name. It could be derived from Latin cornu "horn". People, places and things named Cornelius include:-Surname:...
in the Greek version of Don Bluth
Don Bluth
Donald Virgil "Don" Bluth is an American animator and independent studio owner. He is best known for his departure from The Walt Disney Company in 1979 and his subsequent directing of animated films such as The Secret of NIMH , An American Tail ,The Land Before Time , and All Dogs Go to Heaven ,...
's animated film "Thumbelina
Thumbelina (1994 film)
Thumbelina is a 1994 American animated film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman from a screenplay by Bluth based on Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina. The film was produced by Don Bluth Entertainment and was released to movie theaters by Warner Bros...
" and the part of Hubbie in "The Pebble and the Penguin
The Pebble and the Penguin
The Pebble and the Penguin is a 1995 animated musical film, based on the true life mating rituals of the Adelie Penguins in Antarctica, produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. The film was released to theatres on April 11, 1995 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States and...
".
Discography
- The Nightingale of the Emperor, an opera for children based on H. C. AndersenHans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...
's fairy-tale- Music: Lena Platonos
- Adaptation – Libretto - Lyrics: Yorgos Voloudakis
- Soloists: Aris ChristofellisAris ChristofellisAris Christofellis is a sopranist who was born in Athens on 5 February 1960. After studying piano in Athens and Paris, he decided to concentrate on developing his singing voice.He made his debut in Bordeaux in 1984...
, Spyros Sakkas, Franghiskos Voutsinos, Savina YannatouSavina YannatouSavina Yannatou is a renowned Greek singer.After taking classical guitar lessons and participating in the children's choir of Yannis Nousias for some years, she studied singing with Gogo Georgilopoulou and Spiros Sakkas in Athens, and later attended postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of...
, Yannis Samsiaris, Christos Stasinopoulos - (LYRA Records)