ANASTASIA MALLIARAS
SOPRANO
2022/2023 SEASON PERFORMANCES
13 SEPTEBMER 2022 | DUO APOLLON | Central Library Series
San Diego, California
18 SEPTEMBER 2022 | SOLOIST | Huntington Beach Symphony
Huntington Beach, California
25 SEPTEBMER 2022 | DUO APOLLON | Calliope Arts
Berkeley, California
3 OCTOBER 2022 | SOLOIST | Fine Arts Club of Pasadena
Pasadena, California
13 OCTOBER 2022 | DUO APOLLON | Laguna Beach Live!
Laguna Beach, California
4 DECEMBER 2022 | SOLOIST | The Opera Buffs
Los Angeles, California
11 DECEMBER 2022 | WINTER CONCERT SOLOIST |
Opera Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
18 DECEMBER 2022 | MESSIAH (SOPRANO) | Dream Orchestra
Los Angeles, California
22 JANUARY 2023 | DUO APOLLON | Sunday Musicales
Newport Beach, California
10 - 26 FEBRUARY 2023 | SOLOIST | American Contemporary Ballet
Los Angeles, California
3 MARCH 2023 | LE DORNIER SORCIER (VERVAINE) | Sing for Hope
Los Angeles, California
9 APRIL 2023 | DUO APOLLON | Crocker Museum
Sacramento, California
18-24 JUNE 2023 | SUSANNAH (MRS. HAYES) |
Opera Theatre of St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
17-23 JUNE 2023 | COSÍ FAN TUTTE (DESPINA COVER) |
Opera Theatre of St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
20 JUNE 2023 | CENTER STAGE CONCERT SOLOIST |
Opera Theatre of St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
ABOUT
Soprano Anastasia Malliaras, eager and grateful to return to the stage, is gracefully exploring new depths of her artistry and voice. With a beautiful blend of warm and bright colors, her timbre is distinguishable and vocal tone elegant and natural. Her voice has led her to play the classic operatic roles of Nannetta, Olympia, Zerbinetta, Marie and Frasquita to name a few. And in 2017 she was seen in the world premiere of the opera Tesla where she portrayed the role of Marie Astor Hampton. Anastasia has been a Studio Artist at Central City opera where she played Ruth Baldwin in Musto’s Later That Same Evening and has previously participated in the Young Artist Vocal Academy at Houston Grand Opera and the iSing! International Young Artist Festival. She has placed in prestigious competitions including the Loren L. Zachary Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Los Angeles District and Western Regionals. Furthermore, she is co-founder and singer of the chamber music ensemble, Duo Apollon. The pair is a classical voice and guitar duo that performs original repertoire for voice and guitar, as well as transcriptions from piano.
PRESS
"Anatasia Malliaras is one of the evening’s true joys vocally. As Nannetta, she time and again takes Verdi’s runs of trickling notes and brings joyous interpretations. Her soprano so easily glides, then hangs, and then ever-slightly trembles as she sings of her love for Fenton..." - Theatre Eddys
"As Alice’s darling daughter Nannetta, Anastasia Malliaras’ sparkling soprano improved from thoroughly delightful early on to excellence in Act 3’s beautifully floated gossamer-edged fairy song." -Opera Chaser
"Anastasia Malliaras’ exquisite high range and multihued soprano were a constant joy as Marie." - South Florida Classical Review
Malliaras has a big soprano voice with a nice bloom to it; she looked beautiful in Nuria Currasco Dominguez’s picture-perfect late Victorian dress and she handled the brief sex scene with Tesla gamely.
-Palm Beach Arts Paper
"The lights dim the string Quartet takes their seats. Soprano, Anastasia Malliares accompanied on piano by Alin Melik-Adamyan, enters quietly center stage and sings with heartbreaking angst what we can only assume is a lament to Death." -LA Dance Chronicle
Underpinned only by hesitant, isolated notes on the guitar, Ms. Malliaras keened the melody so slowly that its shape was initially masked, the focused purity of her voice giving it a softly mournful, musing quality that carried no hint of the usual heroic striving. Only with the second stanza, ringing out thrillingly, did that very clear shape” reveal itself." -LA Opus
"Backed by a first-rate 9-piece band, Anastasia Malliaras served up silky period vocals with classic Cole Porter and Gershwin tunes like “Night and Day” and “They Can’t Take that Away from Me” with style and panache as a prelude to each dance." -Cultural Weekly