Artist database

This is the Artist Database of BMC, which includes information about composers, musicians, orchestras, choirs and groups that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary, as well as information about releases recorded with them.

Laki Krisztina


voice - soprano

Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
1954
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Krisztina Laki had studied with the outstanding Hungarian tenor, József Réti. She had sang her first major role as a singer of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf. She has appeared as a guest artist at opera houses including the Opera of Cologne, the Staatsoper, Vienna, the Scala, Milan, the Staatsoper, Hamburg and the Grand Opera, Paris. She has worked with such renowned directors as Jean-Pierre Ponelle, Giorgio Strehler and Andrey Lyubimov. She has achieved remarkable success with such international opera stars as Domingo, Raimondi or Kiri Te Kanawa and acclaimed conductors like Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitnik, Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Wolfgang Sawakisch, George Prčtre and Sir Neville Mariner. She has been celebrated as a concert and song performer as well. Laki has performed at the best-known musical centers of Europe (Salzburger Festspiele, Vienna, Amsterdam, London, Rome), and she is a welcome guest in Japan and the United States. She has sung on more than forty recordings. In 2001 Mrs. Laki was honored with Austrian Order for Science and Culture.
 
Year Title Publisher Code Remark
1990 Mysliveček, Josef: Il Bellerofonte - Opera in 3 Acts Supraphon 11 0006-2 3 CDs / World Premiere Recording
1998 Paisiello, Giovanni: A sevillai borbély
(Paisiello, Giovanni: Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Hungaroton HCD 12525-26 2 CDs - Recorded in 1984