Verebics Ibolya
voice - soprano
Place of Birth
Győr
Date of Birth
1962
Ibolya Verebics is a popular song and oratorio performer in both Europe and the rest of the world. She graduated from the opera faculty of the Franz Liszt Music Academy in 1986, and became a soloist at the State Opera House. She won numerous international singing competitions, such as Karlsbad, Helsinki, Barcelona, Cardiff and Philadelphia. Her more important roles have included Michaela from Bizet's Carmen, Margit from Gounod's Faust, and the Countess from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, but her repertoire includes works by Kodály, Szokolay, Purcella and Puccini as well. In 1992, she won the Béla Bartók-Ditta Pásztory prize and in 1996, was awarded the Franz Liszt Prize. She has appeared on dozens of CDs. She is a regular participant at the Kismarton Haydn festival, the Stuttgart Bach Academy, and has sung with Antal Doráti, Ádám Fischer, Eric Ericson, Helmuth Rilling and Peter Schreier.