Laszlo Maleczky

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Laszlo Maleczky (born April 19, 1965 in Stockholm , Sweden ) is an Austrian opera singer with a tenor voice (spinotenor or youthful heroic tenor ).

Life

Maleczky was born in Stockholm to parents of Hungarian origin. At the age of two he came to Vienna , where he completed the Vienna Art School and classical vocal training at the Franz Schubert Conservatory for Music and Performing Arts . At the University of Music and Performing Arts , he specialized in classical singing and stage. He also completed an acting training .

At the beginning of his stage career, Laszlo Maleczky sang in operetta and classical musical productions. Then he increasingly appeared in operatic roles (Tamino - Die Zauberflöte , Nemorino - Der Liebestrank , Alfredo - La traviata ) and sang the lyric tenor part. From the 1994 season he was a permanent guest at the Vienna Volksoper , where he became a member of the ensemble and solo singer. There he appeared in the musicals La Cage aux Folles (as Jean-Claude), My Fair Lady (as Harry) and The Man of La Mancha (as Paco). He was there with Tobias Moretti in the production Die Bernauerin by Carl Orff on stage. From 2001 Maleczky went back to freelance work and sang on the lake stage of the Bregenz Festival , in the Ronacher in Vienna, at the Musical Comedy in Leipzig and at theaters and festivals in Switzerland and Germany. In productions of the Operettenbühne Wien he could be heard in the operettas Gräfin Mariza (as Tassilo) and Der Graf von Luxemburg (as René).

Since the 2003/04 season, Maleczky has appeared regularly in opera and operetta productions at the Lower Austria State Theater . There he joined, among others, as Stanislaus, Alfred , Tassilo, and when Anton Hofer in the operetta Two hearts in three-quarter time of Robert Stolz on. He also sang Tamino in the opera Die Zauberflöte there .

In 2007 he sang the debut album Adoro with the newly founded formation Adoro . He then released another four studio albums with Adoro. They have received multiple platinum and gold awards in Germany and Austria. He co-wrote two songs for the Adoro album Träume (2012). The titles are the two new compositions by Adoro Love is a rose and I live for you . In October 2013, Maleczky announced his departure from Adoro .

In 2014 Laszlo Maleczky sang the duet Amigos Para Siempre composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber with the international crossover star Katherine Jenkins . On German-speaking TV it was presented to more than 5.5 million viewers on the ARD's Christmas TV show, the “Advent Festival of 100,000 Lights”. In the summer of 2015, Laszlo Maleczky sang new, self-produced classical pop songs for the first time at the Potsdam Palace Night. There he sang a 3-tenor concert part together with The Dark Tenor and Tobey Wilson as a further item on the program .

In 2016 he released his classic-pop debut album Herzschlag . This album was produced by Laszlo Maleczky himself (co-producer Echopilot); he also wrote most of the texts. The album contains international hits like Angels ( Robbie Williams ), It's my life ( Bon Jovi ), or Love me like you do ( Ellie Goulding ) with modern classical-pop arrangements and German lyrics.

From 2007 to 2009 Maleczky was artistic director of the Burgspiele Güssing in Burgenland . He has written two children's musicals, which are a contemporary implementation of Austrian theater classics : The girl from the fairy world based on Ferdinand Raimund's Der Bauer als Millionär and Lump-zapadump-Lumpazi based on Johann Nestroy's The Evil Spirit Lumpazivagabundus .

He has also written lyrics, songs and arrangements for a number of plays.

Discography

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Albums
Heartbeat
  AT 48 09/16/2016 (3 weeks)
  • 2008: Adoro
  • 2009: Adoro Deluxe Edition CD + DVD
  • 2009: Forever and you
  • 2010: luck
  • 2011: The love of my life
  • 2011: The Love of My Life - Deluxe Edition
  • 2012: An evening with Adoro - LIVE (Live DVD)
  • 2012: dreams
  • 2013: Adoro - The best
  • 2014: Amigos Para Siempre - duet with the international crossover star Katherine Jenkins
  • 2016: heartbeat

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Re-establishment of the company: Adoro Musik GmbH HRB 136847 ( Memento from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. Portrait of Laszlo Malecky . ORF Burgenland 2008, accessed on October 25, 2013.
  3. Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz : It is so green. Musical at the Vienna Volksoper . S. 161, S. 166 and S. 175. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85002-632-1 .
  4. The Bernauerin . ORF TV broadcast.
  5. Reviews . Laszlo Maleczky website.
  6. Amigos para siempre. Video of the Advent Festival of 100,000 Lights on YouTube .
  7. Laszlo at the Potsdam Palace Night . In: Märkische Allgemeine , July 22, 2017.
  8. Laszlo - "Heartbeat". CD review from September 9, 2016. Accessed February 3, 2017.
  9. Chronicle of the Güssing Castle Games , accessed on May 2, 2019.
  10. The farmer as a millionaire. Güssing Castle Games 2007.
  11. Audio samples of Laszlo Maleczky's mini musicals on SoundCloud .
  12. ^ "The evil spirit Lumpazivagabundus" and "Lump-zapadump-Lumpazi" ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Güssing Castle Games 2008 (press reviews).
  13. Chart sources: AT