After completing his Masters in Philosophy at the LSE, Spiro decided to pursue his love of singing and was admitted to Trinity College of Music as a baritone opera singer, where he studied with Omar Ebrahim and Helen Yorke. He now studies with Jennifer Dakin and Robert Dean as a bass opera singer.
He has performed Verdi’s Macbeth (conducted by Sir Edward Downes), Haydn’s Nelson Mass (conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras), Handel’s Messiah, Harvey’s Passion and Resurrection, Menotti’s The Saint of Bleeker Street, Handel’s Semele and Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen (British Youth Opera), Verdi’s Macbeth, Bellini’s La Sonnambula, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Puccini’s La Rondine (Opera Holland Park), and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (Opera Holland Park and Opera South), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Opera South), Der Stein der Weisen (Garsington Opera), The Marriage of Figaro (St John’s Opera, the Longborough Festival, and Opera Holland Park), Death in Venice (Aldeburgh and Bregenz Festivals), Playing Away and Tosca (Bregenz Festival), Carmen (Opera Project and Raymond Gubbay), La Boheme (Longborough Festival), and Aida (Raymond Gubbay). His roles include Notary (Gianni Schicchi), 2nd Prisoner (Fidelio), understudy for Seneca (The Coronation of Poppea), Yakuside and understudy for The Official Registrar and The Imperial Commissioner (Madame Butterfly), Benoit and Alcindoro (La Boheme)*, Melisso (Alcina), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Antonio and understudy for Bartolo (The Marriage of Figaro), 2nd Gondolier (Death in Venice), Minder and Journalist (Playing Away), and Zuniga (Carmen).He has given recitals in London, Surrey, and Kent and has also taken part in master-classes with Susan McCullock, Adrian Thompson, Henry Herford and Robin Bowman.
He has performed a solo recital of Scottish Songs at the Lion Ballroom in Herefordshire, a series of concerts as a guest of Swan Hellenic, and, as part of a quartet, a selection of carols in the Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House. Furthermore, as part of a chorus, he sang on the James Bond film, ‘Quantum of Solace’, and he performed “A Night at the Opera” at the Royal Festival Hall, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, in aid of London’s homeless. He also sang the role of ‘Colline’ in Act 2 of ‘La Boheme’, in front of members of the Royal Family, at a charity event at Kensington Roof Gardens.
*winner of the ‘What’s on Stage’ award (2011) for best off-West End production, and winner of the Olivier award for Best New Opera Production (2011)