Irini Tsirakidis was born in Wiesbaden, Germany and grew up in Piraeus, Greece. Completing her vocal studies with the well known baritone Kostas Paskalis, she graduated with excellence in performance and received a gold medal. A winner of several competitions including the Maria Callas Competition in Athens and the Aragall Competition in Spain, Tzirakidis made her professional debut at the Greek National Opera in 1996 as Amelia Grimaldi in Simon Boccanegra. She spent a year in the Greek National Opera performing such roles as the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Antonia (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Musetta (La bohème), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and many more.

Ms. Tsirakidis started her international career two years later, and has since worked in all the world's major opera houses, including La Scala, Royal Opera House of London, Liceu-Barcelona, Carnegie Hall, Bilbao, Rome, Trieste, Dallas, Minnesota, Strasburg, St. Petersburg, Poland, Chile, Amsterdam, Tulsa, and many others. She won the Maria Callas award from Dallas Opera as the best début performer of the year for her performance there in the title role of Rossini's opera Ermione.

Her repertoire includes Medea, Ermione, Lucrezia Borgia, Les contes d'Hoffmann, La clemenza di Tito, Le nozze di Figaro, Norma, Il viaggio a Reims, Elizabeth, Don Carlo, Maometto II, Don Giovanni, Semiramide, Un ballo in maschera, Ipighenie en Aulide, La forza del destino, Cavalleria rusticana, and Verdi's Requiem.

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