ANGELIKI THEOHARIS

Angeliki Theoharis has enjoyed a diverse career as a singer, actress, stage director and voice teacher. Her rich mezzo-soprano voice has been heard in major halls in New York City, including Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and CAMI Hall. Critics describe her as "a singer with untiring stamina" who "uses her dark tone to great effect". Richard Dyer of The Boston Globe proclaimed  “Mezzo Angeliki Theoharis boasts distinctive timbre, steadiness of tone, and considerable power". She was praised in her Jordan Hall performance in Il Trovatore, by Susan Larson of The Boston Globe: "As Azucena, the gifted mezzo, Angeliki Theoharis, ground out her hair-raising chest notes and nailed her top ones with courage and thrilling beauty." The Boston Herald lauded her performance in Cavalleria Rusticana:  "As Santuzza, the heroine of Cavalleria, Theoharis displayed a voice like a canon, capable of launching one big, solid note after another, and created a largely sympathetic character”.

Ms. Theoharis has appeared as a featured soloist for various companies including, Lyric Opera of New York, NYC Hellenic Music Foundation, Lowell Opera, Commonwealth Opera, New England Light Opera, Salisbury Lyric Opera, Longwood Opera, Cambridge Chamber Opera, Mass Theatrica, Worcester Opera Works, Boston Bel Canto Opera and Opera Boston. With Opera Boston, she also recorded a selection of Amy Beach songs with pianist Virginia Eskin.

One of the greatest honors for Ms. Theoharis has been performing in La Forza del Destino and as Eboli in Don Carlo with the legendary Jerome Hines.  Her other roles have included Amneris in Aida, Frugola, La Principessa and Zita in Il Trittico, Laura in La Gioconda, Fricka in Die Walküre, Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera, Dame Quickly in Falstaff, The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Antonia’s mother in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte, and the title role in Carmen.

Ms. Theoharis has made solo appearances with the acclaimed Masterworks Chorale of Boston and the Paul Madore Chorale, among other numerous orchestras and choral societies. Her solo concert repertoire includes Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, Durufle’s Requiem, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and The Magnificat by Vaughan Williams, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and The Magnificat by Bach.

In operetta, musical theater and drama, she has performed a wide range of roles including Golde in Fiddler on the Roof, Aldonza and the Housekeeper in Man of La Mancha, Vera Charles in Mame, Hattie in Kiss me Kate, Sister Berthe in The Sound of Music, and Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret as well as many of the standard Gilbert and Sullivan contralto roles. Among her dramatic, non-singing roles are Maggie in The Shadow Box, Aaronetta Gibbs in Morning's at Seven and the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet.

In October 2005, Ms. Theoharis directed The Dining Room by A.R Gurney and Smithfield & Cox for Mass Theatrica. Her other directorial credits include: Amahl and the Night Visitors, Suor Angelica, The Mikado, Patience, Once Upon a Mattress, Fiddler on the Roof and Paradise by the River (Equity staged reading, U.S. premiere). Ms. Theoharis is a professor of voice and opera history at Worcester State College. She also maintains a busy private voice studio in Central Mass.  

Mythic Mezzo, her first CD, has been released on the ARKO Recordings label. Currently,  she is the principal mezzo-soprano soloist with the outreach company, Opera to Go. Recent roles include The Queen of the Fairies in Iolanthe and Terentia in The Beautiful Bridegroom, by Boston composer, Dan Shore. She will sing Madame Flora in The Medium for Mass Theatrica and Katisha in The Mikado for two different productions, NEGASS/Longwood and Mass Theatrica. Ms. Theoharis will appear as Mezzo Soloist in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for The Paul Madore Chorale. She will portray Laura in  La Gioconda for Center Stage Opera (PA).  With Boston Bel Canto Opera, Ms. Theoharis will be featured in the New England premiere of Rossini’s Tancredi, performing the title role.