Spiro Malas

Education

Manhattan School of Music.

Career

He was subsequently asked to tour Australia with the Sutherland/Williamson International Opera Company. This led to appearances at London"s Covent Garden, the New York Metropolitan Opera (1983-1984) and Chicago Lyric Opera. Hello Malas first performed at the Metropolitan Opera as Sergeant

Sulpice in Louisiana fille du régiment opposite Dame Joan and Alfredo Kraus.

Since then, he has sung there in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Louisiana bohème, Les contes d"Hoffmann, Die Fledermaus, Eugene Onegin, L"elisir d"amore, Lulu, Manon Lescaut, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Tosca, and Werther. He has also appeared there in two new productions by Sir Peter Hall.

As Zuniga in Carmen, and as Doctor Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro. Mr. Malas has also been seen on the Metropolitan Opera stage as Haly in L"italiana in Algeri opposite Marilyn Horne, and Capulet in Roméo et Juliette.

He has sung leading roles in the major opera houses in Rome, Naples, Salzburg, Vienna, and Florence, has appeared in televised opera, with leading symphony orchestras, and has recorded the operatic repertoire with notables such as Luciano Pavarotti, Beverly Sills, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and Sutherland.

A leading bass-baritone with the New York City Opera for many years, he has also sustained a career in television, having appeared in Spenser: Foreign Hire, The Equalizer, Ryan"s Hope, One Life to Live, Law & Order and Sex and the City. In addition to his teaching at Barnard College and Columbia University, Malas also serves on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and Curtis Institute of Music. He is a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.

Malas is married to Marlena Kleinman Malas, a voice teacher in New New York

They have two sons, Nicol and Alexis.

Achievements

• Malas made his operatic debut in 1959 in his native Baltimore and in 1960 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. The New York Times"s Frank Rich, commented on Mr. Malas" Drama Desk Award nominated portrayal of the immigrant farmer, Tony Esposito in the Broadway revival of The Most Happy Fella "As acted by Mr. Malas, Tony"s inner growth and redemption become the very soul of musical drama, especially as delineated in one gorgeous Loesser song after another.".