Szűcs Márta
voice - col. soprano
Place of Birth
Date of Birth
7 September 1952 (Kiszombor, Hungary) - 23 April 2025
Márta Szűcs was born on 7 September 1952 in Kiszombori. She graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest in 1981 as a student of Olga Révhegyi in the opera department. Before that she played the violin for ten years. Since 1981 she has been a private singer at the Hungarian State Opera House. She made her debut in the role of Gilda in Rigoletto and subsequently sang several leading roles in a series of operas. In 1983 she won the prize for best female performance at the Belcanto Singing Competition in Brussels for Donizetti's Lucia Lammermoor.
In 1984, she sang for Lorin Maazel, who invited her to sing Violetta (Verdi's La Traviata) at the Staatsoper in Vienna. From then on, she began her career abroad. She has sung with partners such as Pierro Cappuccilli, Sherill Milnes, Renato Bruson, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Jennifer Larmoore and Peter Dvorsky. She has made guest appearances in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Las Palmas, Nice, Monte Carlo, Valencia, Edinburgh, Liverpool, etc. She has worked with conductors such as Lamberto Gardelli, Giuseppe Patané, Rico Saccani, Leif Sägerstam, János Ferencsik and Miklós Erdélyi.
She was a founding member and president of the Opera Historica Foundation, established in 1996. In addition to her musical career, she was also a passionate photographer, and in November 2024 a photographic exhibition of her pictures opened at the Klauzál House in Budapest.
She died on 23 April 2025, in her seventy-third year.
Main roles:
Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto - Gilda
Verdi: La Traviata - Violetta
Gaetano Donizetti: Anna Boleyn - Anna Boleyn
Vincenzo Bellini: Romeo and Juliet - Juliet
Verdi: The Lombards - Giselda
Gioachino Rossini: Moses - Anaide
Donizetti: Lammermoor Lucia - Lucia
Ferenc Erkel: Bánk Bán - Melinda
Donizetti: Robert Devereux - Queen Elizabeth
Bellini: The Puritans - Elvira
Charles Gounod: The Dove - Sylvie
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Gardener in Disguise - Violenta Onesti
Gounod: Romeo and Juliet - Juliet
Bellini: Norma - Norma
Bellini: The Sleepwalkers (La Sonnambula) - Amina
Awards, honours:
1988 Mihály Székely Memorial Plaquette
1988 Bartók-Pásztory Prize
1989 Liszt Award
2006 Golden Cross of the Hungarian Republic Merit Order
2014 Karola Ágai Medal
Márta Szűcs was born on 7 September 1952 in Kiszombori. She graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest in 1981 as a student of Olga Révhegyi in the opera department. Before that she played the violin for ten years. Since 1981 she has been a private singer at the Hungarian State Opera House. She made her debut in the role of Gilda in Rigoletto and subsequently sang several leading roles in a series of operas. In 1983 she won the prize for best female performance at the Belcanto Singing Competition in Brussels for Donizetti's Lucia Lammermoor.
In 1984, she sang for Lorin Maazel, who invited her to sing Violetta (Verdi's La Traviata) at the Staatsoper in Vienna. From then on, she began her career abroad. She has sung with partners such as Pierro Cappuccilli, Sherill Milnes, Renato Bruson, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Jennifer Larmoore and Peter Dvorsky. She has made guest appearances in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Las Palmas, Nice, Monte Carlo, Valencia, Edinburgh, Liverpool, etc. She has worked with conductors such as Lamberto Gardelli, Giuseppe Patané, Rico Saccani, Leif Sägerstam, János Ferencsik and Miklós Erdélyi.
She was a founding member and president of the Opera Historica Foundation, established in 1996. In addition to her musical career, she was also a passionate photographer, and in November 2024 a photographic exhibition of her pictures opened at the Klauzál House in Budapest.
She died on 23 April 2025, in her seventy-third year.
Main roles:
Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto - Gilda
Verdi: La Traviata - Violetta
Gaetano Donizetti: Anna Boleyn - Anna Boleyn
Vincenzo Bellini: Romeo and Juliet - Juliet
Verdi: The Lombards - Giselda
Gioachino Rossini: Moses - Anaide
Donizetti: Lammermoor Lucia - Lucia
Ferenc Erkel: Bánk Bán - Melinda
Donizetti: Robert Devereux - Queen Elizabeth
Bellini: The Puritans - Elvira
Charles Gounod: The Dove - Sylvie
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Gardener in Disguise - Violenta Onesti
Gounod: Romeo and Juliet - Juliet
Bellini: Norma - Norma
Bellini: The Sleepwalkers (La Sonnambula) - Amina
Awards, honours:
1988 Mihály Székely Memorial Plaquette
1988 Bartók-Pásztory Prize
1989 Liszt Award
2006 Golden Cross of the Hungarian Republic Merit Order
2014 Karola Ágai Medal
| Year | Title | Publisher | Code | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 |
Cimarosa, Domenico: Il pittor parigino (A párizsi festő)
(Cimarosa, Domenico: Il pittor parigino (The Parisian Painter)) |
Hungaroton | HCD 12972-73 | 2 CDs |
| 1994 | Magnificat | Hungaroton | HCD 31259 | |
| 1994 | Magnificat - Vivaldi / Albinoni / Sammartini / Caldara | Hungaroton | HCD 31259 |