Sólyom-Nagy Sándor
voice - baritone
Place of Birth
Siklós
Date of Birth
1941
21 December 1941 Siklós
Excellent opera singer (baritone). His performances can be characterized by beautiful and solid voice material, learned singing technique, musicality, outstanding acting skills and suggestive performance. He is rather familiar with dramatic roles.
From 1960 he’s learned at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music as pupil of Oszkár Maleczky and Éva Kutrucz. In 1966 he graduated as opera singer and art teacher, and the same year he debuted in the Hungarian State Opera House as Scarpia (Puccini: Tosca). Ever since he’s been one of the leading heroic baritones: he played 86 roles altogether and proved his extraordinary skills in more than 50 main roles (he primarily achieved success in Verdi’s operas).
He won many prestigious international contests. He frequently performed as oratorio and song singer, but also contributed to the first performances of numerous contemporary composers. He regularly guest performed abroad, in the Staatsoper of Vienna and Munich, in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Italy and Japan. He’s been constant guest artist of the Bayreuth Festivities.
His major roles are: Rigoletto (Verdi); Falstaff (Verdi); Nabucco (Verdi); Jago (Verdi: Othello); Amonasro (Verdi: Aida); Escamillo (Bizet: Carmen); Hans Sachs (Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg); Wotan (Wagner: Treasures of the Rhine); Count Almaviva (Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro); Guglielmo (Mozart: Cosí fan tutte); Papageno (Mozart: The Magic Flute); Scarpia (Puccini: Tosca); Tonio (Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci); Amfortas (Wagner: Parsifal).
Sándor Sólyom-Nagy has been teacher of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music since 1986. He published his memoir with the title Roots, branches, leafs (1998).
He was honored with the Liszt Prize (1972), the Mihály Székely Memorial Plaque (1974), the title Merited Artist (1977), the SZOT Award (1986), the title Outstanding Artist (1988), the Erzsébet Prize (1990) and the Kossuth Prize (1998). Since 2005 he’s been eternal member of the Society of Immortals. In 2007 he was elected to eternal member and master artist of the Hungarian State Opera House.
Excellent opera singer (baritone). His performances can be characterized by beautiful and solid voice material, learned singing technique, musicality, outstanding acting skills and suggestive performance. He is rather familiar with dramatic roles.
From 1960 he’s learned at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music as pupil of Oszkár Maleczky and Éva Kutrucz. In 1966 he graduated as opera singer and art teacher, and the same year he debuted in the Hungarian State Opera House as Scarpia (Puccini: Tosca). Ever since he’s been one of the leading heroic baritones: he played 86 roles altogether and proved his extraordinary skills in more than 50 main roles (he primarily achieved success in Verdi’s operas).
He won many prestigious international contests. He frequently performed as oratorio and song singer, but also contributed to the first performances of numerous contemporary composers. He regularly guest performed abroad, in the Staatsoper of Vienna and Munich, in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Italy and Japan. He’s been constant guest artist of the Bayreuth Festivities.
His major roles are: Rigoletto (Verdi); Falstaff (Verdi); Nabucco (Verdi); Jago (Verdi: Othello); Amonasro (Verdi: Aida); Escamillo (Bizet: Carmen); Hans Sachs (Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg); Wotan (Wagner: Treasures of the Rhine); Count Almaviva (Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro); Guglielmo (Mozart: Cosí fan tutte); Papageno (Mozart: The Magic Flute); Scarpia (Puccini: Tosca); Tonio (Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci); Amfortas (Wagner: Parsifal).
Sándor Sólyom-Nagy has been teacher of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music since 1986. He published his memoir with the title Roots, branches, leafs (1998).
He was honored with the Liszt Prize (1972), the Mihály Székely Memorial Plaque (1974), the title Merited Artist (1977), the SZOT Award (1986), the title Outstanding Artist (1988), the Erzsébet Prize (1990) and the Kossuth Prize (1998). Since 2005 he’s been eternal member of the Society of Immortals. In 2007 he was elected to eternal member and master artist of the Hungarian State Opera House.