Index – Culture – Dead opera singer Sándor Sólyom-Nagy



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Hungarian opera singer Sándor Sólyom-Nagy, winner of the Kossuth and Liszt awards, perpetual member and master artist of the Hungarian State Opera, died at the age of 80, the Ministry of Human Resources said on Wednesday (Emmi ) to MTI.

Sándor Sólyom-Nagy is also considered dead by Emmi and the Hungarian State Opera.

The artist was born in 1941 in Siklós. He graduated from the Academy of Music in 1966 with a BA in singing and opera as a student of Oszkár Maleczky and Éva Kutrucz. He then became a soloist at the Opera, where he debuted as Scarpia in Puccini’s opera Tosca, but in minor roles, audiences could already see him as a college student.

Sándor Sólyom-Nagy and Júlia Kukely in 1981

Sándor Sólyom-Nagy and Júlia Kukely in 1981

Photo: Opera Archive

The song theater was mainly successful in the baritone roles of romantic and veristic opera literature (Wagner, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Leoncavallo and Erkel), but played by Monteverdi, Mozart and 20th century composers: R. Strauss, Gershwin, Kodály, Szokolay, Balassa. in his works he was also a renowned singer of oratorios and songs.

After singing more than 80 roles, she said goodbye to the stage in 2009.

His name is also known abroad: he has performed in Munich, Graz, Vienna, France, Belgium, Spain and Italy. Since 1981, he has been a regular contributor to the Bayreuth Holiday Games for more than two decades, attending some 250 performances. But he has also appeared in opera films such as Csaba Káel en Ban de Bánk, Fidelió by Miklós Szinetár or Peasant Honor by András Békés. His art is preserved on many radios and on more than 30 recordings, including Liszt’s oratorio The Legend of Christ and Saint Elizabeth, Queen Charles de Goldmark’s Queen Saba, or Gustav Mahler’s Song Cycle of a Wandering Bachelor.

Since 1986, the artist also worked as a professor at the Liszt Ferenc University of Music.

Sándor Sólyom-Nagy’s work was recognized with the Ferenc Liszt Prize in 1972, a Meritorious Artist in 1977, a Featured Artist in 1988, and a Kossuth Prize in 1998. In 2007, he was chosen by the Hungarian State Opera as one of its heirs and master artists.

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