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| He graduated at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest in 1981 and during his years of study he has already performed at the Hungarian State Opera House where he has been appearing to date with huge success. In 1983 he was awarded the first prize at the Singing Competition of the Belgian Radio and Television. His voice is of wide range and rich of timbers. His musicality and splendid technique make his repertory very rich from Händel Messiah full of coloratura to the dramatic Otello. At the beginning of his career, he sang almost lyrical roles: Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Tamino, Cosi fan tutte - Ferrando, Don Giovanni - Don Ottavio, Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Belmonte, Rossini: La Cenerentola - Ramiro, The Barber of Sevilla - Almaviva, Massenet : Werther, Verdi: Traviata - Alfredo, Falstaff - Fenton, Rigoletto - Prince of Mantua, Donizetti: Don Pasquale - Ernesto, Lucia di Lammermoor - Edgardo, Tchaikovsky: Onegin- Lenski There are several TV- and radio recordings which were made on these appearances. Recordings: Donizetti: Don Pasquale Ernesto, Handel: Atalanta Aminta, Brockes Passion, Carissimi: Jonas, Balthasar, Soler: Miserere, Liszt: Septem Sacramenta, Missa Choralis, Cantate No. 1. (world premiere), Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus, Rossini: Stabat Mater, Berlioz: Te Deum, Mozart: Requiem, Verdi: Requiem, Machbeth Malcolm, R. Strauss: Guntram Der Narr des Herzogs TV-operas (recordings): Flotow: Martha Lyonel, Verdi: Falstaff Fenton, Mozart-Goldoni: Mirandolina, Rossini: Loccasione fa il ladro Alberto, Schubert-Berté: Dreimädlerhaus - Schubert He sang an opera rarity at the Wexford Festival in Ireland (Mercadante: Elisa e Claudio Claudio) where he was the favorite of the Festival audience. During the last years he performed almost in every European country, in Australia, in Asia. He toured in Italy, Germany with Manon Lescaut (Des Grieux) where he had very good press. He was principal guest singer of the Prague Staatsoper. He appears presently mostly in romantic roles, i. e. Des Grieux, Kalaf, Prince of Mantua, Alfredo, Manrico, Otello, Radames, Riccardo/Gustavo, Canio (Leoncavallo Pagliacci), Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana), Erik (The flying Duchman). In season 2000-2001 he sang with huge success the role of Herman in opera The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame) of Tchaikovsky in Wiesbaden and in Kopenhagen, where he had very good press. He regularly perfoms in oratorios in Hungary and abroad Mahler: Symphony no. 8. in Prague, Sophia, Barcelone, Liszt: Cantate no. I in Bonn, Händel: Messiah in Solthum (Switzerland), Verdi: Requiem in Dortmund, Unna, Schwertl, Dvorak: Stabat Mater in Braunschweig, Beethoven: Symphony no.9 in Linz, in Canada. |
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