ANGELOS SAMARTZIS

The Greek tenor Angelos Samartzis was born in Athens and brought up in Rhodes.

He studied singing at the Athenaeum Conservatory, obtained a bachelor’s degree at the Karlsruhe University of Music and a master’s degree at the University of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin. His mentors include artists such as Franco Farina, Julia Varady and Raina Kabaivanska.

A most versatile artist, he has sung most of the major roles of the italian repertoire, especially in operas by Verdi (Radamès in “Aida”, Manrico in “Il Trovatore”, Gustavo in “Un ballo in maschera”, the title role in “Don Carlos”, Don Alvaro in “La Forza del Destino”, Alfredo in “La traviata” and Ismaele in “Nabucco”) and Puccini (Chevalier Des Grieux in ” Manon Lescaut”, Rodolfo in “La bohème”, Mario Cavaradossi in “Tosca”, Pinkerton in “Madama Butterfly”, Dick Johnson in “La Fanciulla del West”, Luigi in “Il Tabarro”,  Rinuccio in “Gianni Schicchi” and Calaf in “Turandot”), as well as Turiddu in Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana”. He has sung major french opera roles such as the title roles in Gounod’s “Faust”, Massenet’s “Werther” and Offenbach’s “Les contes d’Hoffmann”, as well as Don José in Bizet’s “Carmen” and Jason in Cherubini’s “Médée”. His repertoire includes roles in german operas (Bacchus in “Ariadne auf Naxos ” and Narraboth in “Salome” by Richard Strauss, as well as Froh in Wagner’s”Das Rheingold”), comic Opera (Marquis de Chateauneuf in Lortzing’s “Zar und Zimmermann”), operetta (Camille de Rossillon in Lehar’s “Die lustige Witwe”), zarzuela (Javier Moreno in Torroba’s “Luisa Fernanda”) and musical (Tony in Bernstein’s “West Side Story”). He has also sung the tenor parts in Beethoven’s 9th symphony and in Bruckner’s “Te Deum”.

He has appeared in several European Theatres, among which are Greek National Opera, Royal Opera of Versailles, Danish National Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Estonian National Opera, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Minsk, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre and Wroclaw Opera, as well as in Asia at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) in Taiwan. German theatres include Opernhaus Nürnberg, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Oper Halle, Staatstheater Kassel, Theater Freiburg, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Theater Hagen, Theater Nordhausen and Eutiner Festspiele. He has also appeared in concert venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and the Casa da Musica in Porto.

In May 2025 he will make his American debut as Calaf in Puccini’s Turandot at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.