Soloist

Aris Argiris

Aris Argiris was born in Athens and studied marketing and languages, saxophone and music theory in his home city, also studying singing with Kostas Paskalis, Frangiskos Voutsinos and Despina Calafati. After engagements at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, Dortmund Theatre and Bonn Opera, he was a member of the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera until the 2010/2011 season.

Further engagements in past years have taken him to such venues as the St. Gallen Theatre, Berne Theatre, Theater an der Wien, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hamburg State Opera, the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Stuttgart State Opera, the three Berlin opera houses, the San Diego Opera, the Opera de Lima (Peru), the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), the Semperoper in Dresden, the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Royal Opera House in London and the Opéra de Montréal.

The most important roles he has sung so far include not only the title roles in »Don Giovanni« and »Rigoletto« but also Scarpia in »Tosca«, Amonasro in »Aida«, Renato in »Un ballo in maschera«, Jochanaan in »Salome«, Figaro in »Il barbiere di Siviglia«, Escamillo in »Carmen«, Marcello in »La Bohème«, Rodrigo di Posa in »Don Carlo«, Almaviva in »Le nozze di Figaro«, Enrico in »Lucia di Lammermoor« and Valentin in »Faust«.

The baritone has worked with such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Massimo Zanetti, Kurt Masur, Christian Thielemann, Yakov Kreizberg, Gustav Kuhn, Donato Renzetti, Manfred Honeck, Walter Attanasi, Graeme Jenkins, Carlo Franci, Antonello Allemandi, Patrick Lange and Carlo Rizzi.

In 2002, Aris Argiris was a prize-winner at the International Singing Competition of the Schloss Rheinsberg chamber opera, where he sang the title role in Mozart's »Don Giovanni«. In 2007, he was named Greece's Best Young Artist by the Greek Association of Music and Theatre Critics.