{"id":30,"date":"2012-05-19T21:06:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-05T11:14:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:14:24","slug":"spiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hartleyvoices.local\/our-singers\/spiro","title":{"rendered":"Spiro, bass-baritone"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nAfter 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.<\/p>\n
He has performed Verdi\u2019s Macbeth (conducted by Sir Edward Downes), Haydn\u2019s Nelson Mass (conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras), Handel\u2019s Messiah, Harvey\u2019s Passion and Resurrection, Menotti\u2019s The Saint of Bleeker Street, Handel\u2019s Semele and Janacek\u2019s The Cunning Little Vixen (British Youth Opera), Verdi\u2019s Macbeth, Bellini\u2019s La Sonnambula, Mozart\u2019s Don Giovanni, Puccini\u2019s La Rondine (Opera Holland Park), and Donizetti\u2019s L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore (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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n