Angelos Samartzis

Tenor

Website: angelossamartzis.com

Biography

The Greek tenor Angelos Samartzis was born in Athens and brought up in Rhodes. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in opera singing from the University of Music Karlsruhe and his master’s from the University of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin. Among his mentors are Franco Farina, Julia Varady and Raina Kabaivanska.

He has sung many of the major roles of the tenor repertoire, including Verdi’s Don Alvaro La Forza del Destino, Manrico Il Trovatore, Gustavo Un ballo in Maschera, Alfredo La Traviata, Ismaele Nabucco and the title role of Don Carlo and Puccini’s Luigi Il Tabarro, Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi, Mario Cavaradossi Tosca, Dick Johnson La Fanciulla del West, Calaf Turandot, Pinkerton Madama Butterfly and Rodolfo La Bohème. Among his French roles are Don José Carmen, the title role of Faust, Hoffmann Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Jason Médée and among his German roles are Bacchus Ariadne auf Naxos, Narraboth Salome and Froh Das Rheingold. In comic Opera he has appeared as Marquis de Chateauneuf Zar und Zimmermann, in operetta as Camille de Rossillon Die lustige Witwe, in zarzuela Javier Moreno Luisa Fernanda and in music theatre Tony West Side Story. Concerts include tenor solo in the Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and in the Bruckner Te deum. 
Among theatres in which he has appeared are the Greek National Opera, Royal Opera of Versailles, Estonian National Opera, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Minsk, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, Wroclaw Opera. German theatres include Opernhaus Nürnberg, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Oper Halle, Staatstheater Kassel, Theater Freiburg, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Theater Nordhausen and Eutiner Festspiele. He has also appeared in concert venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and the Casa da Musica in Porto.

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Concerts

He has sung in concerts and opera galas with such orchestras as the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt, the Thuringian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vogtland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the LOH Orchestra Sondershausen, the Solothurn State Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Opera at the Castle of Stettin and the Czestochowa Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
Beethoven SYMPHONY NO. 9 – Theater Nordhausen; Philharmonie Luxembourg
Brückner TE DEUM – Philharmonie Luxembourg
Casa da Musica Porto – Verdi Gala

Conductors he has collaborated with include

Artem Abashev; Alexis Agrafiotis; Martin André; Francesco Angelico; Hermann Bäumer; Luigi di Bella; Felix Bender; Giuliano Betta; Anja Bihlmaier; Nathan Blair; Fabrice Bollon; Hermann Breuer; Yonatan Cohen; Óliver Díaz; Srba Dinić; Henning Ehlert; Samuel Emanuel; José Miguel Esandi; Stefan Fraas; Yoel Gamzou; Gordon Gerrard; Hilary Griffiths; Antonio Grosu; Michael Helmrath; Samuel Hogarth; Vladimir Kiradjiev; Daniel Klajner; Christopher Lichtenstein; Iván López Reynoso; Mino Marani; Gianluca Marcianò; David Marlow; Mike Millard; Nicholas Milton; Stefan Neubert; Martin Ozolins; Johannes Pell; Olivier Pols; Lutz Rademacher; Marc Reibel; Christian Reuter; Sergi Roca; Sébastien Rouland; Vladimiros Symeonidis; Tomasz Szreder; Justus Thorau; Joseph Trafton; Lutz de Veer; George Vlaiculescu; Arvo Volmer; Ilias Voudouris; Christopher Ward; Oliver Weder. 

Directors he has collaborated with include

Vasily Barkhatov; Ben Baur; Anna Bernreitner; Erik Biegel; Dominique Caron; Stijn Celis; Brian Deedrick; Jan Essinger; Lorenzo Fioroni; Petros Gallias; Ignazio García; Tobias Heyder; Michael Höppner; Peter Konwitschny; Franziska Kronfoth; Anette Leistenschneider; Maximilian von Mayenburg; Isabel Ostermann; Magdolna Parditka; Alfronso Romero Mora; Jakob Peters-Messer; Wolfgang Nägele; Holger Potocki; Michael Schachermaier; Roland Schwab; Andrea Schwallbach; Aron Stiehl; Tomo Sugao; Alexandra Szemerédy; Graham Vick; Demis Volpi.

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