One of the most exciting baritones of his generation, Dimitris Tiliakos was born in Rhodes and, after studying the viola, he began his vocal training at the Athens Conservatoire. He won the “Maria Callas Prize” and a two-year scholarship, which enabled him to continue his studies in Munich at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater”. Shortly thereafter, he made his debut at the Prinzregententheater in Munich as Conte d’Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and won the W.D. Fassbaender Prize for young baritones. He also became a member of the Nürenberg State Opera, where he performed the major roles of the baritone repertoire.
Dimitris Tiliakos has already trod the boards of some among the major theaters of the world, including New York Metropolitan Opera (La Bohème), London Royal Opera House (Don Carlo), Opéra National de Paris (Don Carlo, Macbeth), Teatro Real Madrid (Les Huguenots, Dido and Aeneas and Macbeth), Teatro Liceu de Barcelona (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitez by Rimsky-Korsakov), Opernhaus Zürich (Macbeth), Opéra de Monte-Carlo (La Bohème), Teatro La Fenice (Manon Lescaut), Athens Megaron (Simone Boccanegra, Macbeth), Greek National Opera (Don Giovanni, Carmen, Il Trovatore), Opera de Nice (Il Trovatore e Simon Boccanegra), Staatsoper Hamburg (Manon Lescaut), Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall (La Bohème), Tokyo Opera City, and many others.
He has worked with conductors such as Myung-Whun Chung, James Conlon, Renato Palumbo, Evelino Pidò, Teodor Currentzis, Alain Altinoglu and Marc Minkowski, and with stage directors such as Graham Vick, Claus Guth, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Robert Carsen and Bob Wilson.
His discography and DVD releases include Verdi’s Macbeth for Bel Air Classiques with the Paris National Opera Orchestra, Dido and Aeneas for Alpha, Francesca da Rimini (as Lanciotto) for Bel Air Classiques, Schubert’s Winterreise for Navis Classics, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni (title role) for Sony Classical under the baton of Teodor Currentzis.
Recent performances
Recent performances by Dimitris Tiliakos include: Simon Boccanegra (in the title role) at the Aaalto Musiktheater Essen; Don Pasquale (in the title role) at the Opernhaus Zürich; The Fiery Angel (as Ruprecht) at the Fondazione Petruzzelli; Fidelio (as Don Pizarro) at the Olympia Municipal Music Theatre Maria Callas; La Traviata (as Georgio Germont) at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall and La Boheme (as Marcello) at the Stavros Niarchos Hall.
Forthcoming projects
Dimitris Tiliakos will play the part of Marcello in the upcoming production of Giacomo Puccin’s La Bohème, produced by the Greek National Opera.
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