Sümegi Eszter
voice
Place of Birth
Mohács
Date of Birth
1965
Eszter Sümegi was born in Mohács and graduated from the opera faculty of the Franz Liszt Music College in 1993 as a student of Márta Ónody. Then she joined the Hungarian State Opera House.
A year earlier, she won the Luciano Pavarotti International Singing Competition in Philadelphia. She made her Budapest debut as Mimi in La Boheme, and sang this role a year later in Toronto. She also sang Tosca in Budapest and repeated the role in 2000 at the Bregenz Festival and then at Salzburg. She has a wide repertoire which extends beyond opera to oratorios, cantatas and songs, it mainly includes roles in Verdi's and Puccini's operas. In 2004, she was much praised for her interpretation of Elza from Wagners Lohengrin.
Her international career also started in the mid-1990s, and she has sung, among others, at the Vienna Staatsoper, at the Franfurt Opera House and in Taiwan. She participated in a minor role in the Die Walküre production of the Théŕtre du Chŕtelet, Paris, which was directed by Bob Wilson and conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.
Her solo album appeared in 2003, with István Dénes as a conductor. Major roles: Maddalena (Giordano: Andrea Chénier), Manon Lescaut, Mimi (La bohčme), Tosca, Liu (Turandot), Leonora (Il trovatore) Violetta (La Traviata), Elisabeth (Don Carlo), Desdemona (Otello), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser).
Awards:
2004 Small Cross of the Hungarian Republic Merit Order (civil section)
2010 Merited Artist
2016 Hungary's Outstanding Artist Award
2018 Kossuth Award
A year earlier, she won the Luciano Pavarotti International Singing Competition in Philadelphia. She made her Budapest debut as Mimi in La Boheme, and sang this role a year later in Toronto. She also sang Tosca in Budapest and repeated the role in 2000 at the Bregenz Festival and then at Salzburg. She has a wide repertoire which extends beyond opera to oratorios, cantatas and songs, it mainly includes roles in Verdi's and Puccini's operas. In 2004, she was much praised for her interpretation of Elza from Wagners Lohengrin.
Her international career also started in the mid-1990s, and she has sung, among others, at the Vienna Staatsoper, at the Franfurt Opera House and in Taiwan. She participated in a minor role in the Die Walküre production of the Théŕtre du Chŕtelet, Paris, which was directed by Bob Wilson and conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.
Her solo album appeared in 2003, with István Dénes as a conductor. Major roles: Maddalena (Giordano: Andrea Chénier), Manon Lescaut, Mimi (La bohčme), Tosca, Liu (Turandot), Leonora (Il trovatore) Violetta (La Traviata), Elisabeth (Don Carlo), Desdemona (Otello), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser).
Awards:
2004 Small Cross of the Hungarian Republic Merit Order (civil section)
2010 Merited Artist
2016 Hungary's Outstanding Artist Award
2018 Kossuth Award