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The distinguished tenor Dénes Gulyás was born in Budapest in 1954. He graduated from the Franz Liszt Music College in 1978 and joined the Hungarian State Opera the same year. In 1979, he won second prize at the Giovani Cantanti Lirici International Competition in Parma. The following year, he sang in leading opera houses across Europe, among them La Scala Milan, Covent Garden and with opera companies in Hamburg, Munich, Bonn, Frankfurt, Paris, Wiesbaden, Marseilles, Florence, Genoa and Barcelona. He also appeared in concert halls such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Musikvereinsaal, as well as at the Paris Radio, Montevideo, Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Yokohama and Madrid. In America he performed at the New York Avery Fisher and Carnegie Halls. In 1982, Dénes Gulyás won the first international Luciano Pavarotti singing competition in Philadelphia. This led to numerous invitations from American operas and concert hall and he sang in Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, San Diego, San Francisco, Miami, Washington and Montreal. Beginning in 1984, he sang at the New York Metropolitan Opera for four straight years, where he was seen in La Boheme, Rigoletto, Romeo and Juliet, Khovanschina, Die Rosenkavlier and Manon Lescaut. He worked with conductors such as Igor Markevich, Antal Doráti, Yehudi Menuhin, Bernard Haitink, Giuseppe Patane, James Levine, Lamberto Gardelli, Claudio Abbado and Silvio Varviso. In 1989, Dénes Gulyás made his debut as an opera director with Gounod's Romeo and Juliet in a production staged at the Hungarian State Opera House. In that year he directed Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci. Besides opera, Dénes Gulyás is a deeply respected lieder singer and has given numerous recitals in Hungary and abroad.