Kalliopi Petrou was born in Athens the 8th September 1981. Her first lessons in music took place when she was 7 years old, by learning classical guitar, for only two years. At the age of 14 she started studying, theory of music and pipe, which she realized she enjoyed very much. During all these years, she used to sing rock, pop and some kinds of Greek music... She used to dream being a singer since she was very young. And actually since then she already was one! When she was 9 years old, she sung to a concert with the unforgettable Paul Anka. She has participated many bands since high school and until nowadays. She is a member of "Galliard". http://www.myspace.com/thegalliard What finally made her decide and choose what she wanted to study seriously on music, was her presence for the first time in opera…about ten years ago. Was it the Bellini, or maybe his Norma? The Casta Diva? The act... or the magical music of the orchestra…? Maybe all these together made her decide, that winter day , “ This is exactly what i want to do in my life” , “This is my art”... She started studying lyrical singing in 1999 with the mezzo soprano Lydia Aggelopoulou and the tenor Stamati Mperi, until 2001 when she continued her lessons with the mezzo soprano Eleni Liwna untill today. She has participated as an active member to vocal courses, with Maria Georgakarakou. She also studies harmony with Mr. George Arguropoulos. During all these years she studied the piano, harmony, history and morphology of music, solfege and prima vista. She is a lyric coloratura, and she has studied Lied and roles like Zerlina of the “ Don Giovanni” Mozart, Susanna or Barbarina “Le nozze di figaro” Mozart, Blondhen “Die Entfuhrung” Mozart, Despina "Cosi fan tutte" Mozart, “Rosina” “Il barbier di Siviglia” Rossini, Musetta “La Boheme” Puccini , Adele “ Die Fledermaus”, Strauss, Almirena “Rinaldo” Handel, Nina "Nina pazza per amore" Paisiello... etc.