Emőke Baráth

Emőke Baráth (born 1985 ) is a Hungarian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Her musical training began at the age of six on the piano , later also on the cello and the harp ; Finally, from the age of 18, she studied singing with Julia Pászthy at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. Although she won numerous prizes between 2003 and 2011, she continued her studies in the 2011/12 academic year at the “Luigi Cherubini” Conservatory in Florence. She then completed master classes with Barbara Bonney , Kiri Te Kanawa , Sylvia Sass , László Polgár , Nancy Argenta , Éva Marton , Deborah York and Masaaki Suzuki . She deepened her knowledge of baroque music at workshops in Gmunden , Boston and Sopron .

Baráth's voice as bright as a bell and her confident technique ensured early success in international singing competitions and gave the artist a quick start to her career in large opera houses and on important concert stages. In 2012 she made her debut at the Budapest State Opera and at the Verbier Festival as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro , and at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music in the title role of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea . In Budapest she has since appeared and heard as Nanetta in Verdi's Falstaff and as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni . A great personal success, the artist achieved in the summer of 2013 in the title role of Cavalli's Elena in Aix-en-Provence Festival , a production that later in the Opéra National de Montpellier , the Royal Opera Versailles and de Opéra Lille to see was. From January 2014 she sang Euridice at the Operá de Nancy in a Claus Guth production of Monteverdi's Orfeo .

Baráth regularly gives recitals and takes on the vocal part in chamber and church concerts . She sang Bach's soprano solos in the St. Matthew Passion (at the Budapest State Opera) and in the Mass in B minor (with the Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski ). She is u. a. Performed in the Nikolaisaal in Potsdam, in the Staatstheater Braunschweig , in the Salle Pleyel in Paris (with Les Talens Lyriques ) and in the concert hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.

In the Handel cycle of the Theater an der Wien she has so far been heard in five concert performances : 2011 as Sesto in Giulio Cesare in Egitto , 2013 as Alceste in Arianna in Creta , as Oriana in Amadigi di Gaula and as Almirena in Rinaldo (with Il pomo d'oro under Riccardo Minasi ), and in 2014 as Antigona in Admeto . Giulio Cesare , Arianna , Amadigi and Admeto were played by Il complesso barocco and conducted by Alan Curtis , the artist and ensemble also made guest appearances with Admeto at the Krakow Philharmonic . Giulio Cesare was released on phonograms on Naïve label , Baráth's first recording.

Awards

• 2003: Special prize, as well as first prize in the National Singing Competition ( Budapest ) in 2005 and 2006
• 2009: Third prize at the 44th Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition ( Karlovy Vary ).
• 2011: First Prize and Audience Prize at the 2nd International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cestin ( Innsbruck )
• 2011: Grand Prix of the Verbier Festival Academy ( Switzerland )
• 2011: Junior Prima Prize of the Prima Primissima Competition (Budapest)
• 2014: Nomination as the best young singer at the International Opera Award

Web link

• Emőke Baráth agency profile