Zoltán Nagy
Of Hungarian descent, baritone Zoltán Nagy was born in Romania, studied at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in his hometown of Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg), and was awarded a scholarship to pursue a master's degree at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Zoltán Nagy studied with Prof. Boris Bakow and later made the transition from bass to baritone while working with the legendary Romanian soprano Virginia Zeani.
Zoltán Nagy made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2008 as the youngest member of the ensemble.
He has been working as a freelance artist worldwide since 2011. Zoltan made his debut at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre as Mozart's Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro and sang there as a guest for three seasons. At the Royal Opera House in London he first sang Schaunard in Puccini's La Bohème and has since alternated that role with Marcello in the same opera at the Ente Concerti Maria-Lisa de Carolis, the Leipzig Opera, the Vlaamse Opera, the Ghent Opera, the Opera de Nice and the Singapore Symphony. His showpiece roles include Escamillo in Carmen, which he sang at Bilbao Opera, RTE Dublin, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Shaanxi Grand Opera, Teatro Grande di Brescia, Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro Regio Torino, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Romanian National Opera and Hungarian National Opera, among others. Important engagements also include the Hamburg State Opera (Harašta: Das Schlaue Füchslein), the Komische Oper Berlin (Leander: The Love for Three Oranges), the Onassio Theatre Athens (Calchas: Iphigenie en Aulide), Theater an der Wien (Pedone: La Wally, Der Schmied: Peer Gynt, solo concert with Edita Gruberova), the Teatro Verdi Trieste (Falke: Die Fledermaus), the Romanian National Opera (Germont: La Traviata, Dulcamara: Elisir d'amore, Amonasro: Aida) Teatro Regio di Parma (Dreieinigkeitsmoses: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), and the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo, where he recently made his debut as Alberich in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. At the Heidenheim Opera Festival Zoltán Nagy made his debut as Count Tomski in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades.
On the concert platform, Zoltán Nagy has worked with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra, the RSO Vienna, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTE Dublin, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan, the Romanian National Radio Orchestra, and the Hungarian National Radio Orchestra, among others.
He recorded the role of Theseus in Bohuslav Martinů's opera Ariane on a live CD with the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016.