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 Rigoletto - debut at ROH Covent Garden. Two figures are dominant, and they are the two who matter most: John Eliot Gardiner, conducting Rigoletto for the first time, and the stunning Greek baritone Dimitri Platanias, making his Covent Garden debut. As for Platanias, I have rarely heard the title role sung with such gloriously sustained tone and line, or such thrilling power. Visually he's not the most grotesque of Rigolettos; perhaps he feels that his costume, a proto-Hell's Angel black-leather get-up, is weird enough. But he projects bags of character with his voice alone - a voice that I would like to hear much more. Richard Morrison - The Times - 1st April 2012 Greek baritone, Dimitri Platanias first studied classical guitar and graduated in both Classical Guitar and Singing at the Kalamata Municipal Conservatory and with a degree in English Language and Literature from the Greek National University in Athens. He decided to relinquish the classical guitar for a career in singing when in 2000 he won the Alexandra Trianti Scholarship from the Friends of Music Foundation in Athens to study for two years in Cremona with Aldo Protti's widow, Masako Tanaka Protti. At the showcase concert for the winners of the Alexandra Trianti bequest, Rodney Milnes said in Opera Magazine - July 2008: The most impressive singer was the baritone Dimitris Platanias, who on this showing could sing Rigoletto anywhere in the world: beautifully warm, heroic tone, a dynamic range from forte to a pianissimo that lost nothing in colour or substance, musicianship and instinctive feeling for text - a name to watch out for in the current dearth of Verdi baritones. In 2004 he made his debut at the Greek National Opera singing the role of Alfio CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA. His debut in Italy as Gerard ANDREA CHENIER in 2007 marked the beginning of his international career. Roles performed:
Concerts include: Joseph L'ENFANCE DU CHRIST (Megaron); Mephistopheles, Boser Geist, Pater Seraphicus SZENEN AUS GOETHES FAUST (Megaron); CARMINA BURANA (Megaron, Thessaloniki); MOZART - CORONATION MASS (Corfu). Gunther GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Megaron - Concert form); BRAHMS -EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM (Megaron); FAURÉ - REQUIEM (Greek National Opera); MENDELSSOHN - DIE ERSTE WALPURGISNACHT (Odeon of Herodes Atticus). Conductors and Directors with whom he has worked include: Martin Andre; Myung Wun Chung; John Eliot Gardiner; Lukas Karytinos; Gianluca Martinenghi; Diego Matheuz; Myron Michailidis; Carlo Montanaro; Carlo Rizzi; Giovanni di Stefano; Daniele Abbado; Stephen Langridge; David McVicar; Jakob Peters-Messer; Nikos Petropoulos; Graham Vick. Future Plans: Title role RIGOLETTO: Teatro Massimo di Palermo; London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall, Théâtre Royal de la Monnais, Concertgebouw Amsterdam; Scarpia TOSCA: Oper Frankfurt; Paolo SIMONE BOCCANEGRA: Teatro Municipale G. Verdi di Salerno, Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Sharpless MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Odeon of Herodes Atticus; Germont LA TRAVIATA: Teatro La Fenice di Venezia; Title role NABUCCO: Staatstheater Stuttgart; Gugliemo LE VILLI: Les Grandes Voix -Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; Title role SIMON BOCCANEGRA: Bayerische Staatsoper; Iago OTELLO: Oper Frankfurt; Alfio CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Royal Opera, Covent Garden. --> Download (Pdf)              
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