Greek-American bass-baritone Stephanos Tsirakoglou has sung many signature buffo roles including Dottor Dulcamara in L'Elisir d'Amore, the title role in Falstaff, and Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance.

Mr. Tsirakoglou has also had great success on the concert stage having sung the baritone and bass solos in the Mozart, Fauré, and Howells Requiems, Bach's St. John Passion and Magnificat, Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem and Messiah, and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Ode to St. Cecilia's Day.

Mr. Tsirakoglou was recently seen as Dottor Bartolo in Opera Middlebury's production of Il barbiere di Siviglia, has performed as a principal artist with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and the Utah Festival Opera Company, and has previously been engaged as an apprentice artist with Lake George Opera and Opera New Jersey, in addition to having performed as a Guest Artist in Seattle Opera's Young Artist Program.

Mr. Tsirakoglou currently studies with Mr. Mark Oswald, Metropolitan Opera baritone and full time faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music.