Kálmán Péter
voice - baritone
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1970
Baritone, born in Budapest in 1970. He began his music studies under Anna Pauk, then continued in New York under Gábor Carelli. After returning to Hungary he became a student of Mircea Breazu. In 1993 as place winner in the first Hungarian Mozart Singing Competition, he was able to sing the role of Papageno in the Hungarian State Opera House, then the Count in The Marriage of Figaro. In 1996 he took part in the master course held by Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge. As a member of the Zurich International Opera Studio he sang in a number of performances and won the Herbert von Karajan Music Legacy scholarship of the Telemondial Foundation. From 1998 to 2005 he was a soloist of the Zurich Opera House where, among others, he sang in The Masked Ball (Silvano), L’Elisir d’amore (Belcore), Tosca (Angelotti) and The Magic Flute (Papageno), and worked with such conductors as Nello Santi, Christoph von Dohnányi, Ádám Fischer, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jacques Delacôte, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Ralf Weikert, Stephan Soltesz and Franz Welser-Möst.
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 |
Pachelbel, Johann: Áriák és duettek
(Pachelbel, Johann: Arias & Duets) |
Hungaroton | HCD 31736 |
Own |