Emmanouil Christofakakis

Competition repertoire

Preliminary

• Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - O Isis und Osiris (Sarastro)

Semi-Final 

• Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia - La calunnia (Don Basilio)
• Verdi: Simon Boccanegra - Il lacerato spirito (Fiesco)

Final

• Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail - O wie will ich triumphieren (Osmin)
• Verdi: Don Carlos - Ella giammai m'amo (Philippe II) 

Biography 

Manos Christofakakis was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1989. He graduated from Acropolis Conservatory in Athens in 2011, with Distinction and 1st Prize under the guidance of the tenor Zachos Terzakis. He has attended masterclasses hold by the Hungarian soprano Mária Temesi, the Russian baritone Vladimir Chernov, the Greek bass Dimitri Kavrakos, the Ukrainian soprano Victoria Loukianetz, the Mexican bass-baritone Noe Colin, the Mexican tenor Jesus Leon and the Greek soprano Katerina Tsagaraki. In August 2020 he participated at Vienna Opera Academy with a scholarship.

He sings bass and bass-baritone repertory. Among his recent performances are the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Vienna Opera Festival (2020), the title role of Xanthoulis' children opera The Selfish Giant at the Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion (2020), Uberto of Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona (2019) in the Lyric Theatre of Crete at Heraklion Open-air Festival, El Payador of Piazzolla's tango-operetta Maria de Buenos Aires (2018).

In January 2020, he participated in the International Solo Singing Competition Lazar Jovanović in Belgrade, Serbia and in October 2020 in Lav Mirski Internatinal Singing Competition in Osijek, Croatia and was awarded 1st prize and 2nd prize respectively as well as two and one special prizes respectively.

He is collaborating with the French pianist Mélisande Sinsoulier in art song and opera recital programs and they have performed in various occasions, such as the international chamber music festival Casa dei Mezzo at Makrygialos in Crete.

He has given recitals in Greece and Germany, many of them for charity reasons, like the construction of a guesthouse for abused women and children in Heraklion and the support of families in need.

He is the president and artistic director of the non-profit organization Lyric Theatre of Crete. He is also board member of the historic music organization Apollon (est. in 1908) in Heraklion.

He has a broad interest for performing arts and has been performing as a dancer in Argentine tango shows since 2011. Moreover, he has taken acting classes and has participated in theatrical plays.

He is a lawyer and mediator. He graduated from Athens Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University. He continued with postgraduate studies in Athens Law School, at Frankfurt’s Institute for Law and Finance and at Columbia University in New York with a scholarship.