Dimitra Theodossiou - Violetta Valery

The huge critical acclaim she earned with the role of Odabella in Verdi’s Attila at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and the Teatro Regio in Parma, was the opener to an extraordinary career that has lead her to the major stages of the world: the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Arena in Verona, the Opéra in Monte Carlo, the Zurich Opera House, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo in Brazil, to name a few. She collaborated with conductors such as Muti, Abbado, Gelmetti, Elder, Viotti, Gergiev, Chailly, Luisi, Campanella, Jurowski, and with stage directors such as: Hugo De Ana, Pierluigi Pizzi and Igor Mitoraj.

Recently performed Elvira in Ernani in Bilbao, Bologna and on tour in Japan; Maria Stuarda in Palermo; La Forza del Destino in Parma; Roberto Devereux in Montreal; Beatrice di Tenda in Catania; Luisa Miller in Salerno; Il Trovatore in Lecce; Nabucco at the Arena in Verona, Cagliari, Pisa and Athens; Un Ballo in Maschera in Catania; La Forza del Destino at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires; Norma at the Teatro Regio in Turin; Macbeth in Trieste.

Future plans include: Macbeth in Athens; Stiffelio in Catania; Otello in Salerno; Un Ballo in Maschera in Bergamo; Verdi’s Requiem in Rome and Palermo; she will be engageged in a series of lyric concerts in Thessaloniki, Saint-Etienne a La Batie, and a recital in Tokyo.

Dimitra Theodossiou established herself as a major international interpreter of Bel Canto and verdian repertoire and last summer was awarded by the prestigious Oscar della Lirica in Torre del Lago.