Dionysios Kyropoulos (bass and stage director) founded Defleo in 2012. He read music at City University London and studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Robert Dean. As an opera singer he has performed numerous roles in the UK and abroad, and has worked with companies including British Youth Opera, Cambridge Handel Opera, MidAmerica Productions, Riverside Opera, Tara Arts, Mantissa Opera, Barefoot Opera, Lucid Arts, Skull of Yorick Productions, Unexpected Opera and Longborough Festival Opera. He has directed Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Purcell’s The Indian Queen, Cavalli’s Gli Amori d’Apollo e di Dafne, and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Teatro Principal de Burgos, in Spain. Other directing work includes Tamerlano, Partenope and Rodelinda by Handel, Livetta e Tracollo by Pergolesi, David Earl’s new opera Strange Ghost, and Timothy Kraemer’s children’s opera Ulysses and the Wooden Horse. In Oxford he directed Molière’s comedy The Doctor in Spite of Himself at the Burton Taylor Studio, Coward’s play Hay Fever at the New College Cloisters, Purcell’s opera The Prophetess at the Keble O’Reilly Theatre, and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the Oxford Playhouse. For more information and updated biography please visit his website: www.kyropoulos.com