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Callas Gala | Athens | September 2020

Callas Gala | Athens | September 2020

The Herod Atticus Theater will be hosting an opera gala to help raise funds for the Maria Callas Academy Society, which hopes to purchase the building at 61 Patission Street in downtown Athens, where the Greek opera legend spent a part of her formative years from 1937 to 1945, and turn it into its headquarters.  The concert will feature the ERT National Symphony Orchestra and soprano Alexia...

Fernand Cortez

Fernand Cortez

This week four new recordings will be released. There will be three you can stream and another that will be on video (April 10, 2020). Dynamic is releasing a new production from October 2019 from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The Spontini opera is shown in its original version in its first-ever recording. The recording stars Dario Schmunck and Alexia Voulgaridou in a new production by Cecilia...

13th Rhodes International Festival

13th Rhodes International Festival

On August 26, 2020, Alexia Voulgaridou performed at the 13th Rhodes International Festival. The festival is recognized as one of the most successful festivals in Greece and attracts music lovers from all over the country and abroad.

The Arena di Verona has announced the 2020 casting featuring an all-star lineup.

The Arena di Verona has announced the 2020 casting featuring an all-star lineup.

The opening of the season will showcase a new production by Gabriele Muccino of “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci.” Mascagni’s work will showcase Ekaterina Semenchuk, Alexia Voulgaridou, Maria José Siri, and Sonia Ganassi alternating as Santuzza and Murat Karahan, Carlo Ventre, Yusif Eyvazov, and Marcelo Álvarez as Turiddu. Sebastian Catana, Ambrogio Maestri, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, and Alberto...

January/February 2017

Alexia Voulgaridou has been recently celebrated with an outstanding critical and public success in her role as Cio-Cio San at the Palais de la Monnaie in Brussels. Claude Jottrand from ForumOpera wrote: “la Cio-Cio-San d’Alexia Voulgaridou est absolument magistrale..:”, James Karas from Reviews and Views wrote: “she sings with incredible power and emotional punch.” See all reviews under "Press...

September/October 2015

Alexia Voulgaridou will sing the main role in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Staatstheater Stuttgart on October 7, 10 and 24. Further performances on December 3 and 14.Ms. Voulgaridou -  "warm, luminous tone and urgently communicative phrasing" (TheClassicalReview.com), " her singing was beautiful and assured" (huffingtonpost.com), "As Butterfly, Greek soprano Alexia Voulgaridou was...

March/April 2015

Alexia Voulgaridou returns to the Royal Opera House to sing Puccini's Madama Butterfly On March 27 and April 6, 9 and 11, Alexia Voulgaridou will return to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London, to sing her acclaimed role Madama Butterfly in Puccini's opera. Ms. Voulgaridou just appeared on same role at the San Francisco Opera, in her local debut. The critics were quick to offer praise...