Christos Stassinopoulos

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The tenor Christos Stassinopoulos is an actor, recitalist and concert singer from Athens.

[edit] Education

Christos Stassinopoulos studied acting at the Drama Schools of Piraeus Association and Eugenia Hatzikou. He started his music studies at the National Greek Conservatory with Georgia Georgilopoulou, continued in Stockholm with Ulla Blom and completed in Athens, at the Greek Conservatory, with Paulos Raptis. He graduated in 1994 summa cum laude, being also awarded a Distinction Prize.

Stassinopoulos studied music theory and harmony at the Greek Conservatory with Irene Archavli, graduating with distinction in 1996. He also studied oratorio, lied and chamber music interpretation, attending classes by Paul Schilawsky, an eminent pedagogue of Mozarteum Music Academy.

[edit] Acting and Singing career

Christos Stassinopoulos made his debut as an actor with the “Seventh Theatre”, director Korais Damatis’ theatre company. He also joined other groups and participated in various television and radio productions. He starred in Lefteris Chrysochoos' shortfilm “Heralds of the Chimera”, that participated in the International Shortfilm Festival in Drama, Greece and the Munich International Festival of Film Schools.

He has given recitals and participated in concerts in Greece (Athens Festival events at the Mansion of the Duchess of Plaisance, “Parnassos” Concert Hall, “Athenaeum” International Cultural Centre, Athens Municipality Cultural Centre, German Church in Athens “Christus Kirche”, Patmos Municipality Cultural Centre, “Apollo” Theatre in Syros etc) and Sweden (Stockholm Music Museum, the Artists’ Club - Konstnärsklubb, Churches of All Saints’, St. Paul’s, Eneby, Villa Solborg, City of Västerås Art Museum etc).

He appears both in tenor's and lyric baritone's repertoire.

In 1997, Stassinopoulos performed the part of Vizier in Nikos Mamangakis’ “Opera of Shadows”, commissioned and produced by Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall.

[edit] Film and Television

He was chosen by the Walt Disney Company to perform the title-part in “Aladdin”, in the dubbed Greek version of the very successful animated film, as well as in its two sequels “The Return of Jafar” and “Aladdin and the King of Thieves”. He’s been also the Greek voice of “Aladdin” in the long running tv series. He recently dubbed the parts of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum in Walt Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland”.

Warner Bros. chose him to perform the part of Cornelius in the Greek version of the animated film “Thumbelina” and the part of Hubbie in “The Pebble and the Penguin”.