Lenia Safiropoulou studied singing, piano opera and interpretation of art song in the STaatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart, in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Opera Course) and in the National Opera Studio in London. She was awarded scholarships by the Maria Callas and Alexandros Onassis Foundations and for the season 2006-7 she has been supported by the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and by Serena Fenwick. She won the singing competition of the Greek Radio in 2006 and represented Greece in the international competition ''New Talents'' of EBU. In 2009 she was awarded the prize of the Greek Critics Union. She has performed the roles Rosina (La Finta SEmplice), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Georgetta (Il Tabarro), Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw, Kiev Festival 2005), Salustia (Handel, Alessandro Severo), Queen Mother (J.Dove L'Augellino Belverde) and Maria (Spiro Samara,Tigra, world premiere, Athens Concert Hall 2010). She sang `with Philharmonia Orchestra for the reopening of Royal Festival Hall (2007), with Royal Ballet Symphonia, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, State Orchestra of Athens, Kamerata Orchestra of Athens Concert Hall, STate Orchestra of Thessaloniki and Greek Contemporary Music Orchestra. She participated in productions of BBCradio3 and Performance Channel (UK). She collaborates regularly with the New Hellenic Quartet and the german pianists Michael Gees and Axel Bauni. She has given recitals in London, Paris, Lyon, Stuttgart and Athens. She participated in the Internationaler Orgelsommer and the Hildebrandt Tage in Naumburg and in the International Cyclades Festival.
