Katalin Pitti

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Katalin Pitti von Boeselager (born December 7, 1951 in Szentes , Hungary ) is a Hungarian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

She began her 1972 vocal studies at the Béla Bartók - Conservatory in Budapest and was until 1977 at the city's Franz Liszt Academy of Music student of Jeno Sipos. From 1975 she took part in master classes organized by the German soprano Irmgard Seefried in Vienna. At the beginning of her career in 1976 she was awarded the Bach Prize at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig, where she was awarded the 2nd prize (female singing). In 1978 she performed at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In 1977 she made her stage debut at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest in the role of Desdemona in Verdi's Otello . Since then she has remained active as a soloist at the Hungarian State Opera until 2001 and has become one of the outstanding sopranos in Hungary.

She mainly sang parts from Italian ( Giuseppe Verdi , Giacomo Puccini ) as well as from Hungarian and Slavic opera literature. You could hear them at the Budapest State Opera a. a. as Giulietta in Hoffmann's Stories , as Saffi in Der Zigeunerbaron and in 1992 as Marie in Wozzeck by Alban Berg . She also had a successful career in the concert hall, both in her Hungarian homeland and as a guest abroad. Katalin Pitti came to Neu-Ulm several times, most recently in 2013, and sang arias in the Petrikirche. She has participated in several sound recordings in sound studios and has starred in Hungarian opera films. At the Hungarian music label Hungaroton she sang the role of Sister Genovieffa from Suor Angelica after Giacomo Puccini and at Supraphon / Koch the Genoveva from Paradise and Peri after Robert Schumann . In 1985 she received the Franz Liszt Prize (Liszt Ferenc-díj) and in 2011 the Honored Artist Hungary Prize (Magyarország Érdemes Művésze díj). In 2012 Katalin Pitti was elected honorary citizen of Budapest.

Around 1996 she married Wolfhard Freiherr von Boeselager . They came to Miskolc in 1996 , where the Csilla-von-Boeselager-House was put into operation and Katalin Pitti von Boeselager sang the Ave Maria of “Bach / Gonoud” . She is currently working as a freelance artist, who has dedicated herself to the art of song, and passes on her skills as a teacher. She sang several times at Schloss Höllinghofen , the ancestral home of her husband Wolfhard von Boeselager. At the beginning of the 2000s, Wolfhard von Boeselager and Katalin Pitti separated.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katalin Pitti is a guest in Neu-Ulm - June 23, 2013
  2. ↑ Frenreisz, Pitti és Mága is díszpolgár lett.Origo , 2012, accessed on February 3, 2016 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ Barone a színpadon. (No longer available online.) Új Szó online, December 7, 2001, archived from the original on February 3, 2016 ; Retrieved February 3, 2016 (Hungarian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ujszo.com
  4. ^ Csilla-von-Boeselager-Haus Miskolc
  5. ^ Ave Maria 2013 in Neu-Ulm
  6. ↑ “Help must have faces” - Csilla-von-Boeselager-Haus
personal data
SURNAME Pitti, Katalin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pitti von Boeselager, Katalin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Szentes , Hungary