Dimitri Platanias, Greek baritone. APA Artists' Management Alexandra Mercer - www.apaartistsmanagement.com/dimitriplatanias/




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Rodney Clarke
Massimiliano Gagliardo**
Yasuo Horiuchi
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Dimitri Platanias
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Video (YouTube):
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Audio (Mp3):
Rigoletto - Larà Larà
Rigoletto - Cortigiani vil razza dannata
Andrea Chenier (Giordano)


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 stirring 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.
Rodney Milnes - Opera Magazine - July 2008

Greek baritone, Dimitri Platanias first studied classical guitar and graduated with dipolomas 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. After some persuasion he decided to relinquish the classical guitar for a career in singing and in 2000 won the Alexandra Triandi Scholarship from the Friends of Music Foundation in Athens to go to Cremona in Italy where he studied for two years with Masako Tanaka Protti, the widow of the great Italian baritone, Aldo Protti. Since his return to Athens he has collaborated with all the major Greek orchestras in various concerts. In 2004 he made his debut at the Greek National Opera singing the role of Alfio CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and now regularly appears at the Greek National Opera and abroad.


Roles performed:

AIDA: Amonasro




ANDREA CHENIER: Gérard




LA BOHEME: Marcello

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Alfio

DON GIOVANNI: Leporello

LA GIOCONDA: Barnaba

NABUCCO: Title role


LE NOZZE DI FIGARO: Figaro

I PAGLIACCI: Tonio

O PROTOMASTORAS: The Master

RIGOLETTO: Title role


SIMON BOCCANEGRA: Paolo Albiani

LA TRAVIATA: Germont Père


MARATHON-SALAMIS: Xerxes
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Thessaloniki Opera
Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa di Savona
Teatro Goldoni di Livorno

Teatro Sociale di Rovigo
Il Politeama di Catanzaro
Teatro Sociale di Trento
Teatro Goldoni di Livorno

Greek National Opera

Greek National Opera

Greek National Opera

Greek National Opera

Teatro Castello di Vigoleno
Teatro dell'Opera Giocosa di Savona

Greek National Opera

Greek National Opera

Greek National Opera/Megaron

Casa da Música, Porto
Greek National Opera

Greek National Opera/Megaron

Greek National Opera
Larissa Opera

Greek National Opera


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).


Future Plans:

Amonasro AIDA (Bregenz Festival), Odeon of Herodes Atticus; Scarpia TOSCA (Opera Ireland); Grand Prêtre SAMSON ET DALILA (Teatro G. Verdi di Trieste); Title role RIGOLETTO: (Teatro la Fenice di Venezia); (Royal Opera, Covent Garden).

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