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Maritina Tampakopoulos

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Hailed by Italian La Stampa as "one of the most interesting voices `released in the recent years: a very solid lirico-spinto (for now), with a beautiful timbre, ringing in the high notes" and as "a Gift to a Director" by English Opera Now, Maritina Tampakopoulos is making a difference as a versatile and luminous Artist in the Operatic World, offering exhilarating dramatic experiences around the globe.  

After obtaining her Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School in 2020 Maritina has sung a wide variety of roles on the opera stage including: la duchesse Hélène in Les Vepres Siciliennes (Teatro Massimo Palermo) & (Deutsche Oper Berlin) Mimi in La Boheme (Teatro Regio Torino) cov. Lucrezia in Due Foscari (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden) Pauline in Le Jouer (Festival della Valle D'Itria) Aida in Aida ( Národní Divadlo Prague) Smaragda in The Master Builder ( Olympia Theater of Athens) Leonora in Il Trovatore ( Israeli Opera Tel Aviv & Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), Bon-Bon in Il Paese dei Campanelli (Festival della Valle D'Itria) Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Nedda in Pagliacci ( Winland Festival Beijing) 

She enjoyed making music, as well esteemed working with a number of the world’s leading conductors, including Yannick Nezet Seguin, Francesco Lanzillotta, Omer Meir Wellber, Enrique Mazzola, Carlo Rizzi, Ian Latham Koenig ,Andriy Yurkevich, Valerio Galli, Joseph Colaneri, Zoi Tsokanou, Sebastiano Rolli, Giuliano Carella, Fabio Luisi, and Daniele Calegari. 

At the same time she has appreciated and relished evolving her acting skills under the guidance of Emma Dante, Sir David Poutney, Olivier Py, Valentina Carasco, Paolo Gavazzeni, Piero Maranghi, Grischa Asagaroff , Emma Griffin, Stephen Wadsworth , Cesare Lievi, Roberto Abbado and Alessandro Talevi .

As a soloist she has had the privilege of collaborating with a plethora of orchestras, chanting various repertoire in numerous venues such as Verdi Gala with La Toscanini in Parma, Opera Gala at Deutsche Oper Berlin , Mendelson’s Elijah in New York,  Gala for Raina Kabaivanska in Opera Sofia , Stabat Matter in Athens, Gala Viotti in Teatro Vercelli , Galla di Voce Liriche in Pisa,Gala Belcanto in Modena,  Gala for 100 years birth  anniversary of Maria Callas in Athens, Opening Gala of Opera Krakowska in Polland and other. 

Maritina's training includes past resident artist apprenticeships with Accademia Chigiana in Siena/Italy, Wiener Staatsoper, Oper im Steinburg, Riva del Garda Festival and Juilliard Opera where she sang Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and Elisabetta de Valois in Verdi’s Don Carlos(French version) as well as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni.
Additionally she has also participated in live-streamed working sessions with Metropolitan Opera’s Music Director Yannick Nezet-Séguin on Elisabetta in Don Carlo and with acclaimed soprano Renee Fleming on Rusalka.

Her talent excelled in several International singing Competitions like: Hans Gabor Belvedere (Vienna) , F. Vinas (Barcelona), Giovanni Consiglio (NYC) Gerda Lissner (NYC), Zachary Competition (Los Angeles), Zandonai (Garda), Gian Battista Viotti (Vercelli) ,Voci Verdiane (Parma) Vincero International Competition(Napoli), Spazio Musica, Ottavio Ziino (Rome) and was awarded First, Second Prizes, Critics Awards, Main Stage Debuts as also captivated the public’s heart and recognition winning 6 times the Audience Award.

She holds degrees from The Juilliard School (Artist Diploma in Opera Studies) Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “Vecchi-Tonelli" ( Master's)and National Conservatory of Greece (Bachelor in Music with Honors and First Prize). Her mentors and teachers, including Cheryl Studer, Raina Kabaivanska, William Matteuzzi, the late Glenys Linos, James Pearson, Bill Schuman, Mary Birnbaum, Stephen Wadsworth the late Eve Shapiro and Sherman Lowe,have been offering up to date a great refinement to her vocal technique and artistic perception, and to whom is evermore thankful.

Maritina is also deeply grateful to be awarded the George & Marie Vergottis Foundation Scholarship, Constance Goulandris Scholarship , the Kabaivanska Foundation Scholarship offered by the acclaimed Raina Kabaivanska herself. She is supported by the Hardesty and Beverly Peck Johnson Fund and Finally she is very proud winner of the Florence and Paul DeRosa Grant Prize for "Extraordinary Achievement and Outstanding professional promise in the Vocal Arts".


She currently resides between Venice, Vienna and New York, being a citizen of the world while pursuing ways to unite people by serving the Arts, by awakening and cultivating the spirit, the instincts and all dimensions of the human soul.

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