Mario Frangoulis

Mario Frangoulis is most famous today Greek Ténor . Its most known song is Vincero Perdero .

It was born in Rhodesia in 1967 but it moves in Greece at the four years age to be high there by his aunt and her uncle. Mario discovers very young person her talent for the Musique. It belonged to a choral society as a Ténor prinicpal at age the eight years and at eleven years, it records the role of Isaaca in the opera of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . It also takes part in many theatrical representations : fifteen years, he plays in Cabaret and sixteen years, he plays Tony in West Side Story .

During this time, during eleven years, he studies the Violon in Athens Conservatorium where he obtains his diploma in 1984. In 1980, it gains the best price of violin, at the fourteen years age. Its musical education was going to be an invaluable help later, during its studies of opera. In 1985, he moves with London where he off follows courses of actors in Guildhall School Music and Drama. In 1988, he plays Puck in the one night dream of summer after which he receives very good criticisms before finishing his last year in collaboration with Royal Shakespeare Company with the festival of Arundel. Cameron Mackintosh (producing of the the Phantom of the Opera , the Miserable , Cats …) the reference mark when he plays in the opera very rewarded Orlando (of Vivian Ellis) where he plays the main role. After a hearing, it offers to him to the romantic role of Marius in the production the Poor wretches with the De luxe hotel Theater. It plays there during one year, of 1988 to 1989. The musical comedy is directed by Trevor Nunn, a very respected British. After the success of the Miserable , it leaves in Italy where it studies with the tenor Carlo Bergonzi with the Academy of Made green in Busseto (the birthplace of Verdi); it will obtain its diploma afterwards six months. In Italy, it meets celebrates it tenor Alfredo Kraus and he becomes his particular pupil, the following everywhere in the world to learn from him during more than one year. In 1991, it is invited by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber to interpret the role of Raoul in the Phantom of the Opera to the Her Majesty' S Theater, directed by Harold Prince.

During the time 1992 - 1995, it leaves to New York to continue its studies of opera with Dodi Protero. In 1992, it gains the purse Onassis which enables him to continue its studies. In 1993, he sings in Athens Music Concert Hall in an opera dedicated to the memory of Maria Callas. In 1994, it finishes finalist in the International competition launched by Luciano Pavarotti. On its return to London in 1995, Mario Frangoulis is invited to play the part of Lun-Tha in the musical comedy Anna and the King of Rogers and Hammerstein during some representations with the Festival of Covent Garden. The Times , the Guardian and other newspapers will greet its talent. He again plays Lun-Tha in a version played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Barbara Cook in 1996, directed by Wally Harper. During the summer 1996, it makes its beginnings with ancient amphitheater of Herod Atticus, under the Acropolis of Athens, at the time of one evening dedicated to the memory of Leonard Bernstein with the Orchestra of the Colors , a symphony created by the talented Greek type-setter, Manos Hatzidakis. It sings there extracts of West Side Story , Candide , Our Town … It turns over in this ancient theater September 4th and 5th of the same year and begins its collaboration with the very famous Greek type-setter, Yannis Markopoulos. He sings the song headlight of Orpheus Liturgy, a oratorio diffused on a large chain of Greek television. He will again interprétra this song three times in 1999. During this time, during the same year 1996, it rejoue again Marius in the Poor wretches with the De luxe hotel Theater, London.

In February 1997, because of the serious disease of his mother, it stops her international career and turns over in its native land where it becomes very popular there. It receives excellent criticisms in the rooms of Athens for its roles like Billy Kracker in Happy End or the comedy of Aristophane The Birds . In September 1997, one offers to him the role of Danny Zouko in the musical comedy Grease , directed by David Gilmore. It is a new critical and public success. The same season, it appears in shows in the famous concert hall Iera Odos , with the star Greek George Dalaras. It sings there in Greek, Italian and Spanish: the musical comedy makes the turn of Greece and Europe and leaves even out of CD. Representatives of Sony Music listening to sing and make him meet Peter Gelb, the director of Sony Classical: it signs an exclusive contract which enables him to begin a true international career.

During spring 1999, it makes its first show in solo, always in the concert hall Iera Odos . He collaborates in particular with Deborah Myers. The next summer, it occurs in round in Greece and with Cyprus, singing in front of 2000 to 10.000 people. Its first album, Fengari Erotevmeno , is an immediate success and the album becomes platinum in two years, Greece and in Cyprus.

During the summer 2000, it rejoue Tony in West Side Story in prestigious Scala Operated House with Milan.

Its international career begins in 2002 with the album Sometimes I dream which contains a repertory of very varied Mediterranean songs: the pop one, rock'n'roll, songs of films, opera… In 2004, Mario Frangoulis appears in With-Lovely , a film on the life of Cole Porter, where he sings in duet with Lara Fabian. The song is entitled So in coils and is reproduced on the album of the original soundtrack. Its following album, Follow your Heart takes again the same receipt that Sometimes I dream , will leave in 2005.

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