Lydía Zervanos

Soprano, born in Athens. She studied violoncello under Marina Kislitsina and Mathias Wexler. She studied voice under the guidance of George Zervanos, as well as Jill Pearon, and completed her studies with Martha Arapis. She has graduated with honours from the European University of Cyprus, the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam (USA), as well as the Musical Horizons Conservatory and the Classical & Contemporary Music Conservatory in Athens (Greece). She was a scholarship recipient from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation and the Onassis Foundation. She is the author of the first book on Greek lyric diction and vocal repertoire for foreign singers Singing in Greek (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). She has performed title roles and premieres of works, repeatedly collaborating with orchestras and organisations such as The Beggars’ Operas, Neuköllner Oper Berlin, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, International Festival of the Aegean, Greek National Orchestra, Athens Philharmonia Orchestra, etc. As an avid recitalist, she has presented recitals in Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States, and she has recorded live for the Third Programme of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. At the GNO she sang the leading roles in Spyros Samaras’ opera Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (GNO Foyer, 2012/13) and in Theophrastos Sakellaridis’ operetta The Possessed (GNO Foyer, 2014/15), as well as the role of Bibika in Tasos Rosopoulos’ The Wax Doll (GNO Alternative Stage, 2018/19).