Petros Magoulas

Biography of Petros Magoulas

Petros Magoulas is a Greek opera singer (bass), born in Athens, Greece. He studied singing and opera performance with Frangiscos Voutsinos and Kostas Paskalis, while also completing advanced studies in music theory.

He has performed in numerous opera productions at major opera houses and festivals, including the Greek National Opera, Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Bilbao Opera (ABAO), Welsh National Opera, Israeli Opera (Tel Aviv), Kiel Opera (Germany), Halle Händel Festival (Germany), Oldenburg Opera (Germany). He has also appeared at major festivals and cultural venues such as the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron), the Wexford Festival Opera (Ireland), the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, the Opera of Thessaloniki, and the Opera Festival of Ancient Corinth. From 2010 to 2013 he was a member of the ensemble at Kiel Opera, and since 2014 he has been a member of the ensemble at the Greek National Opera.

In recent seasons, he has sung major leading roles including Sarastro (The Magic Flute, Mozart), Osmin (The Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart), Don Giovanni and Commendatore (Don Giovanni, Mozart), Méphistophélès (Faust, Gounod), Lindorf, Coppelius, Miracle, and Dappertutto (The Tales of Hoffmann, Offenbach), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte, Mozart), König Heinrich (Lohengrin, Wagner), Daland (The Flying Dutchman, Wagner), Hunding (Die Walküre, Wagner), Zaccaria (Nabucco, Verdi), Jacopo Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra, Verdi), Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino, Verdi), Banco (Macbeth, Verdi), Sparafucile (Rigoletto, Verdi), Pagano (I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata, Verdi), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti), Water Gnome (Rusalka, Dvořák), Comte des Grieux (Manon, Massenet), Colline (La Bohème, Puccini), Alidoro (La Cenerentola, Rossini), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette, Gounod), and Lorenzo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini).

He has also appeared in numerous concerts, performing the bass solo parts in works such as Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Bach’s St. John Passion, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Haydn’s Stabat Mater, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, and Berlioz’s La Révolution grecque, among others.

In the 2025/2026 season, Petros Magoulas will perform at the Greek National Opera as Angelotti in Tosca and as Enrico in Anna Bolena. He will also appear as Lycomedes (Deidamia, Handel) at both the Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland and the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, Germany. Additionally, he will take part in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Greek Radio (ERT) Symphony Orchestra and in Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Athens State Orchestra at the Athens Concert Hall.

Petros Magoulas is a frequent collaborator with conductor George Petrou and his orchestra Armonia Atenaea. His recordings include all major bass roles in Handel operas such as Oreste, Arianna in Creta, Tamerlano, Giulio Cesare, Alessandro Severo (MDG), Arminio (DECCA), as well as his Commendatore on the Don Giovanni Blu-ray release from the Royal Opera House (Opus Arte).

"Un Méphistophélès charismatique excuse souvent les potentielles faiblesses d’une production. C’est ce qu’on peut encore vérifier ce soir avec le fabuleux Petros Magoulas, qui par son timbre poivré et sa fine diction, propose un attirail de magies plurielles sur un fantastique paquebot de voix, montrant ses attraits à travers la collaboration plutôt qu’en s’imposant au-dessus des autres. Son personnage séduit par sa proximité humaine."
opera-online.com (11 April 2022)