PLACE
Vergottis Cultural Centre, Kourkoumelata
PERFORMER
Soprano – Celia Costea, Baritone – Dimitris Tiliakos, accompanied on piano by Dimitris Υakas
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Lauragkas’ Arias and his music in the context of his time
PROGRAM
- GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858-1924): La Bohème, Mimi?! Speravo di trovarvi qui…
- ALFREDO CATALANI (1854-1893): La Wally, Ebben, n’ andrò lontana…
- GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792-1868): Il barbiere di Siviglia, Largo al factotum della città…
- RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO (1858-1919): Pagliacci, Qual fiamma avea nel guardo!… Stridono lassù…
- GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901): Il Trovatore, Il balen del suo sorriso…
- DIONYSIS LAURAGKAS (1860-1941): Θύμηση
- DIONYSIS LAURAGKAS (1860-1941): Φρόσω, Αδύνατον! Μην επιμένεις άλλο…
- SPIROS SAMARAS (1861-1917): Μάννα και γυιός
- JULES MASSENET (1842-1912): Le Cid, Pleurez, mes yeux…
- GEORGES BIZET (1838-1875): Carmen, Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre…
- GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858-1924): Tosca, Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore…
- UMBERTO GIORDANO (1867-1948): Andrea Chenier, Nemico della patria!!…
- GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901): Il Trovatore, Mira, di acerbe lagrime… Vivrà!…
BIOGRAPHY
Cellia Costea
Soprano, born in Romania, she studied music at the National University of Music, Bucharest. She received several prizes in international competition including the China International Vocal Competition (Beijing, 2002), Francisco Vinas International Singing Contest (Barcelona, 2003) and Valsesia Musica Competition (2004). Her repertory includes Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Amsterdam), Liu in Turandot (Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bergen, Oslo), Elisabetta in Don Carlo (Athens Concert Hall), Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (Vienna State Opera, Marseilles, Liege), Leonora in Il Trovatore (Italy, Spain, Athens). Recently, she sang Tosca (Athens Concert Hall, Frankfurt, Palermo, Beijing, Amsterdam Concertgebouw). For her interpretation on this particular role and her contribution to Greek opera she was awarded the 2011 Grand Music Award of the Greek Theatre and Music Critics.
Dimitris Tiliakos
Dimitris Tiliakos was born in Rodos and first studied viola at the Athens conservatory, before he took up his singing lessons with Kostas Paskalis. In 1996 he was the first prize winner of the Maria Callas foundation and finalized his studies at the Hochschule für Theater und Musik in Munich. Shortly thereafter he made his debut at the Prinzregententheater in Munich in the role of Conte Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and was awarded the W.D. Fassbänder-prize for young opera singers. Between 1997 and 2003 Dimitris was a member of the Nuremberg state opera where he performed the major parts of the baritone repertory.
Since 2004 he has been freelancing and quickly made a name for himself through a series of guest performances, including the most important opera houses and concert halls: Opera National de Paris (Don Carlo, Macbeth), London Royal Opera House (Don Carlos), Opera de Monte Carlo (La Bohème), Sala São Paulo, Teatro La Fenice (Manon Lescaut), Polish National Opera (Otello, Carmen), Athens Megaron (Simone Boccanegra), Tokyo Opera City, Greek National Opera (Don Giovanni, Carmen, Trovatore), Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Hall, Theater Bern (Carmen), Metropolitan Opera (La Bohème), Teatro Real-Madrid (Les Huquenots), Don Giovanni at the Bolshoi Opera, Trovatore at the Opera de Nice and the Theatre de la Monnaie.
Dimitris’ future projects include the main roles in: Macbeth at the Teatro Real in Madrid, La Forza del destino at the Cologne Opera, Simon Boccanegra at the Opera de Nice, Nabucco at the Vlaamse Opera and La Traviata at the Nederlandse Opera.
Dimitris Yakas
Dimitris Yakas was born in Athens in 1957. He studied piano at the National Conservatory in Athens, from where he graduated in 1977. He continued his education at the ECOLE NORMALE DE MUSIQUE DE PARIS (piano, chamber music and piano coaching [formation de chef de chant]) and had lessons in vocal accompaniment with Dalton Baldwin.
In 1982, as a result of winning a competition, he took up a position as coach at the Paris Opera, where he remained until 1991. During this period he worked with many major conductors and singers, with whom he gave concerts in Paris as well as other French cities and at festivals (Tours, Pau, Strasbourg, Festival de Marmande, de Sully, du Comminges etc). He worked many times as coach at the Opera de Lyon at the invitation of Kent Nagano. In 1990 he played at two concerts in Paris, at which the complete works of Berlioz for voice and piano were performed (with M. Olmeda, B. Uria-Monzon etc).
In 1991 he settled in Athens and became one of the principal collaborators of the Greek National Opera and the Megaron: The Athens Concert Hall, working with conductors such as M. Viotti, R. Bonynge, D. Renzetti, J. Arnel, A. Allemandi, etc. He has coached the singers for the world premieres of many operas written by Greek composers [Mikis Theodorakis: MEDEA, Bilbao 1991; Thanos Mikroutsikos: THE RETURN OF HELENA, Athens 1993; Arghyris Kounadis: BACCHAE, Athens 1996 etc.] and has played for master classes of J. Pilou, Ch. Ludwig, D. Evangelatos, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Alison Pearce, etc. He regularly gives concerts as an accompanist in Greece and abroad (M. Krilovic, J. Pilou, A. Baltsa, D. Evangelatos, D. Kavrakos, El. Vidal, A. Cognet, D. Theodossiou, etc.).
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