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Sándor Sólyom-Nagy, Hungarian opera singer winner of the Kossuth and Liszt award, perpetual member of the Hungarian State Opera and master artist, who died at the age of 80, the Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi) told on Wednesday to MTI.
Sándor Sólyom-Nagy is also considered dead by Emmi and the Hungarian State Opera, the announcement says.
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.
He was mainly successful in the baritone roles of romantic and veristic opera literature – Wagner, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Leoncavallo and Erkel – but he also performed in the works of Monteverdi, Mozart and 20th century composers – R. Strauss, Gershwin , Kodály, Szokolay, Balassa. , and was also a renowned singer of oratorios and songs. After singing more than 80 roles, he said goodbye to the stage in 2009, according to the statement.
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. (MTI)
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