Miklósa Erika
voice - col. soprano
Place of Birth
Kiskunhalas
Date of Birth
1970
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Erika Miklósa was an athlete as a teenager but was forced to give up competing due to an accident and she took up singing as a new pastime. Barely three years later, by the time she was 19, she had become the youngest contracted singer ever at the Hungarian State Opera House.
In 1992 Júlia Hamari invited her to her concert "Master and Future" in Brussels. This was her first appearance abroad. In the same year the opportunity arose for her to sing the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Mannheim. In later years the role became her trade mark. Thereafter her international career made a rapid ascent. In 1993 she won 1st prize at International Mozart Competition.
In 1996 she went abroad as she wished to study. She trained on scholarships first at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and then at La Scala in Milan.Until 1999 she was a member of the Hungarian State Opera House, where she sang a series of soprano roles.
Erika Miklósa has played the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte on all the world's major stages from London to Paris, from Munich to New York. Her extraordinary voice has conquered the world and with a mass of international invitations and three hundred performances behind her she has become the most sought after singer in the world for this role. Since 2004 she has had a continuous contract with the New York Metropolitan Opera House. Besides opera, she gladly makes excursions into musical and operetta, and has been in the main role at countless exclusive gala concerts.
Major roles: Giulietta (Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi), Lakmé (Delibes: Lakmé), Lucia (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor), Norina (Donizetti: Don Pasquale), Adina (Donizetti: L'Elisir D'Amore), Königin der Nacht (Mozart: Die Zauberflöte), Konstanze (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Olympia (Offenbach: Les Comtes d'Hoffmann), Adele (Rossini: Le Comte Ory), Adele (J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus), Fiakermilli (R. Strauss: Arabella), Gilda (Verdi: Rigoletto), Oscar (Verdi: Un ballo in maschera), Odette (E. Kálmán: Die Bayadere), Maria (Bernstein: West Side Story)
Prizes, decorations:
1991 European Award for Culture (for the role of Königin der Nacht, Zurich)
1994 Pro Opera Lyrica - Opera Singer of the Year (Hungary)
1998 Small Cross Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
1999 Honorary Citizen of Kiskunhalas (Hungary)
2003 Artist of Bács County (Hungary)
2006 Liszt Prize
2012 Kossuth Prize
2022 Hungarian St. Stephan Prize
In 1992 Júlia Hamari invited her to her concert "Master and Future" in Brussels. This was her first appearance abroad. In the same year the opportunity arose for her to sing the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Mannheim. In later years the role became her trade mark. Thereafter her international career made a rapid ascent. In 1993 she won 1st prize at International Mozart Competition.
In 1996 she went abroad as she wished to study. She trained on scholarships first at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and then at La Scala in Milan.Until 1999 she was a member of the Hungarian State Opera House, where she sang a series of soprano roles.
Erika Miklósa has played the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte on all the world's major stages from London to Paris, from Munich to New York. Her extraordinary voice has conquered the world and with a mass of international invitations and three hundred performances behind her she has become the most sought after singer in the world for this role. Since 2004 she has had a continuous contract with the New York Metropolitan Opera House. Besides opera, she gladly makes excursions into musical and operetta, and has been in the main role at countless exclusive gala concerts.
Major roles: Giulietta (Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi), Lakmé (Delibes: Lakmé), Lucia (Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor), Norina (Donizetti: Don Pasquale), Adina (Donizetti: L'Elisir D'Amore), Königin der Nacht (Mozart: Die Zauberflöte), Konstanze (Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Olympia (Offenbach: Les Comtes d'Hoffmann), Adele (Rossini: Le Comte Ory), Adele (J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus), Fiakermilli (R. Strauss: Arabella), Gilda (Verdi: Rigoletto), Oscar (Verdi: Un ballo in maschera), Odette (E. Kálmán: Die Bayadere), Maria (Bernstein: West Side Story)
Prizes, decorations:
1991 European Award for Culture (for the role of Königin der Nacht, Zurich)
1994 Pro Opera Lyrica - Opera Singer of the Year (Hungary)
1998 Small Cross Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
1999 Honorary Citizen of Kiskunhalas (Hungary)
2003 Artist of Bács County (Hungary)
2006 Liszt Prize
2012 Kossuth Prize
2022 Hungarian St. Stephan Prize
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Miklósa Erika: Szivárvány | Magánkiadás | ZÉ 2000 |
Own |
| 2003 | Miklósa Erika: AlternaDíva | Magánkiadás | TNGK03 |
Own CD/DVD |
| 2016 | Viennese Miniatures by Lanner & Schubert | Hungaroton | HCD 32766 |