Réka Szabó

Grew up near a theater and started singing at the age of ten. As a teenager she attended a choir school, where she was trained using the method of the composer Zoltán Kodály. She then took dance and acting lessons and, as a singer, concentrated primarily on pop music and musicals. It was only later that she found access to opera and studied classical singing at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in her hometown of Budapest and at the University of Pécs (Hungary). Participation in the television show Virtuózok , popular in Hungary(Virstuosen) - in which she made it to the semi-finals - enabled her to move in front of the camera for the first time and to work with the well-known Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra from Budapest. In order to continue her education, she applied for a place in the Swiss Op