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Bass-baritone

Zoltán Nagy

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After his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2008, the internationally acclaimed bass-baritone has been enjoying a permanent presence on some of the world’s major opera stages such as The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bolshoi Theater of Moscow, Theater an der Wien, Staatsoper Hamburg, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Regio Torino,  ABAO Bilbao among many others.

Thanks to a darker timbre of his voice and an extended vocal range, Zoltan has been able to successfully approach a wide repertoire with roles like Escamillo, part he has sang in over 14 productions worldwide (RTE Dublin, Massimo di Palermo, ABAO BIlbao, Shaanxi Grand Opera, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Teatro Regio Torino, Teatro Gande di Brescia, Hungarian National Opera Budapest, Romanian National Opera Bukarest and Cluj among others) followed by Schaunard/Marcello at ROH Covent Garden, Vlaamsee Opera Antwerpen, Oper Leipzig, Opera de Nice, Teatro Comunale Sassari, Opera Budapest and Bukarest.

Zoltan made his debut in Italy singing Falke in a new production of Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss at Teatro Verdi Trieste under the baton of Gianluigi Gelmetti.

He has sang his first Alberich at Opera Oviedo in Spain, in new productions of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung in 2017 and 2018. At Teatro Regio di Parma he appeared in a new production of Weill’s Fall and Rise of the citiy of Mahagonny as Trinity Moses in 2022.

Count Tomski was a debut in a new production of Tschaikowski’s Pique Dame at the Opera Festival Heidenheim accompanied by the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker under Marcus Bosch.

In saison 22-23 Zoltan made his debut at the Komische Oper in Berlin in the role of Leander in a staging of Prokofjev’s Love for the Three Oranges, followed by recent debuts as Giorgio Germont and Amonasro in Verdi’s La Traviata and Aida at the Hungarian National Opera.

Zoltan Nagy has collaborated with Singapore Symphony, Wiener Philarmoniker, RSO Wien, Wiener Symponiker, Robert Schumann Philarmonie, Essener Philharmoniker, RTE Dublin, National Orchestra of Taiwan, Orchestra of the Romanian and Hungarian National Radios under the baton of Adam Fischer, John Wilson, Guglielmo Garcia Calvo, Christoph Gedschold, Marco Armiliato, Fabio Luisi, Leo Hussein, Marc Minkowski, Stefan Soltesz, Alexander Soddy, Carlo Goldstein, Tomas Netopil among others.

Martinu’s Ariane has been released by Supraphon in 2016, Zoltan singing the role of Theseus in a live recording of the Essener Philhamoniker under the baton of Tomas Netopil.

Zoltan has worked with Peter Konwitschny, Stefano Poda, Calixto Bieito, Joan Anton Rechi, Inga Levant, Immo Karaman, Thorsten Fischer, Maurizio Scaparro, Federic Roels, Daniel Benoin, Barbora Horakova, Charles Roubaud among other stage directors.

Born in Transylvania (Romania) from a hungarian family, Zoltan has studied at Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy with prof. Gheorghe Rosu, followed by a scholarship at Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg under the guidance of Boris Bakow. The artist is also Virginia Zeani’s last pupil.

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