Aris Christofellis - Biography
Aris Christofellis was born in Athens on the 5th February, 1960. After studying piano in Athens and Paris, he decided to concentrate on developing his unique voice. He made his debut in Bordeaux in 1984. In 1985 he sang Mozart's "Exsultate, jubilate" at Cannes Midem Classique inauguration concert, where he was received enthusiastically by both the public and the critics. He has sung in many international festivals in baroque operas: Scarlatti's Il trionfo dell'onore in Paris (Théâtre du Chatelet); Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade in Paris (Théâtre du Champs-Elisées), in Barcellona (Palao de la Musica) during the Olympic Games in 1992, and in Handel's Arminio (Festival de Montpellier). He has sung in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, England, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Israel and Morocco.
His repertoire extends from Renaissance to contemporary music but focuses mainly on the Italian baroque opera of the eighteenth century. As a musicologist, he has brought to light many works of this period and has dealt in particular with the ornamentation of the vocal music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.