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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.

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Szonda Éva

voice - mezzosoprano
Place of Birth
Budapest
Date of Birth
 
Éva Szonda was born in Budapest. Graduated at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 1984, she frequented the master classes of Júlia Hamari at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. Since 1984 she has been the leading mezzo-soprano of the National Opera Szeged. She has sung a great number of principal roles including: Cherubino, Dorabella (Mozart), Cenerentola, Rosina (Rossini), Amneris, Maddalena, Eboli (Verdi), Carmen (Bizet), Santuzza (Mascagni), Judith (in Bartók’s Bluebard’s Castle) and Iokaste (in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex). She has toured to Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy, Spain, France, United Kingdom and Singapore, not only with opera productions but also as a soloist in oratorio.

Awards
1985 Bartók-Pásztory Award
1995 Singer of the Year